Sentences with phrase «for a balanced budget»

To the extent that calls for a balanced budget amendment are a first step toward fiscal discipline, we welcome that conversation.

The same will be true for balanced budget legislation.

In the current fiscal circumstances, there is absolutely no economic rationale for a balanced budget.

He has stressed that the Treasury — under his leadership — did loosen the grip, setting out new fiscal rules for a balanced budget by the middle of the next decade.

In his third State of the State address, Indiana Governor Mike Pence is calling for a balanced budget amendment to the State Constitution.

As for balancing the budget.

After all, crude oil and commodities prices are still so low that plunging resource revenues forced Ottawa to defer its target date for balancing the budget.

If the global climate again turns stormy, Budget 2013's three - pronged action plan will seem inconsequential, and Flaherty's pledge for a balanced budget by 2015 will look vulnerable.

For state and local governments, the statutory requirements for balanced budgets meant that fiscal policies turned restrictive relatively quickly once budget surpluses and rainy day funds were exhausted, and this was only temporarily mitigated by federal transfers to the states as part of the initial fiscal stimulus program.

«We remain on track for a balanced budget in 2015,» Rob Nicol, the prime minister's chief spokesman, said in a statement following the release of the parliamentary budget office's report.

As the foreign debts increase there is pressure of the IMF / WB to cut economic and social subsidies for balancing the budget.

«We have set the course for a balanced budget and falling national debt by the end of this Parliament.»

While deploring the influence of Albany's traditional labor - dominated special interests, he helped organize his own: a coalition of real estate magnates, Wall Street executives and antitax groups that raised and spent millions of dollars to help Mr. Cuomo push for a balanced budget without the tax increase on the wealthy sought by many liberals and labor unions.

That's when Paterson has promised to send the Legislature his final take - it - or - leave it solutions for balancing the budget.

Prosperity for all Balance the budget fairly and invest to build a high skill, low carbon economy

The drive for an amendment to limit the Supreme Court's legislative apportionment decisions came within one State of the required number, and a proposal for a balanced budget amendment has been but two States short of the requisite number for some time.

So I voted for a balanced budget, for real spending cuts and I voted to repeal Obamacare.

However Mr. DeLuca noted that part of the Drinking Water Protection Fund already reserves a portion of revenues raised for balancing the budget.

Conservatives with the Republican Study Committee who want to cut spending more quickly introduced their own spending plan that called for balancing the budget within five years.

While the outlook for federal R&D has improved somewhat from the gloomy forecasts of two years ago, all signs still point downward as long as both the Administration and Congress continue to press for a balanced budget through cuts in discretionary spending.

In an attempt to keep that promise and meet his legal mandate for a balanced budget, he slashed deeply into spending for social - service programs, enraging his liberal supporters, and ultimately supported a tax increase.

Start by taking skeptics seriously: Tea Partiers are frustrated when liberals describe support for balanced budgets, limited government, Second Amendment rights, and the repeal of health care reform as racist, violent, xenophobic, callous, and uncaring.

Cabinet ministers who had waited years for a balanced budget were salivating at the thought of being able to spend money for once.

Context The 2015 federal budget, tabled on April 21, sets the stage for balanced budgets as of this year.

For all the years of GOP lawmakers calling for balanced budgets, at least on paper, the House budget would reach balance, while the Senate budget would not.

Signing the compact in theory ratifies rules governing the convention, as well a pre-drafted amendment for a balanced budget and debt ceiling.