To promote growth, he went on, America needs to keep the budget balanced, fix entitlement programmes, and invest in education.
They convinced Bill Clinton that he could not have stimulus spending and a balanced budget, and they have continued to persuade him that a balanced budget is the most important priority he can have.
As chief of staff, Bowles helped negotiate the 1997 budget, the first balanced budget in 30 years.
How to cope with the inevitable and increasing requirements, while keeping the budget equation balanced?
If federal spending is capped so it grows 1 percent each year, the budget is balanced in 2019.
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The final promise was far more daunting: Paul Ryan would write a budget that balanced within ten years.
The debt has been retired, the budget is balanced, ticket sales are up and the orchestra recently released its sixth recording since her arrival.
For the first time in three decades, the budget is balanced.
Under Mr. Obama, the government has run trillion-dollar deficits for four consecutive years, and the top marginal tax rate today is already higher than it was when the budget was balanced in fiscal year 2001.
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Total federal spending should then be frozen until the budget is balanced, with essential spending increases for programs like Social Security offset with the termination of outdated or inappropriate programs that no longer serve a desirable function.
Apparently, Mr. Obama failed to notice that President Bill Clinton saw his strongest period of economic growth only after his health-care takeover and stimulus bills were defeated, welfare rolls were pared, the capital gains tax was cut, and the budget was balanced.
In a series of clean bills passed by the House, the GOP should propose a variety of measures including scaling back the federal budget to 2006 levels, a balanced budget amendment, means tests and age eligibility increases for Social Security, and meaningful Medicaid reform.
Balanced budgets -- as have I. (Laughter.) Balanced budgets in this town -- the last time, as I recall since I covered it, that the budget was balanced in this town through a bipartisan compromise, there was a Democrat in the White House, okay?
The budget talks "have already achieved a balanced budget, " Senate Minority Leader Thomas Daschle, D-South Dakota, said at a briefing Wednesday afternoon.
In that capacity, he brokered the 1997 budget agreement with Republicans that helped produce the first balanced budget in nearly 30 years.
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At his Facebook town hall campaign stop in Palo Alto, California on April 20, President Barack Obama lambasted the 2012 budget proposal of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, which ultimately leads to a balanced budget without tax increases.
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W. Bush, Bill Clinton -- the last time we had a balanced budget -- all of them understood that you have to take a balanced approach to solving our deficit and debt problems, the same way a family would.
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Since 1980 the budget was only balanced once during the Clinton Administration (on January 1, 2001 there was a budget surplus) which required raising taxes.
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Cuomo's budget director, Robert Megna, said DiNapoli's review was based on misunderstandings and misrepresentations of a balanced budget that controls spending and borrowing.
The budget plan that Speaker Gingrich fought for so mightily with President Clinton in the 1990s in fact produced a balanced budget in 3 years.
Meanwhile, the party risks looking mean to the electorate in its professed determination to keep the budget within the spending caps agreed in the balanced-budget legislation of 1997.
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This chart shows how quickly the budget can be balanced with varying degrees of fiscal discipline.
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He intended to talk about campaign finance reform, a balanced budget, Medicare and Social Security.
It has been attempted before (flat tax, fewer deductions, balanced budget, etc.) with no success.
Only a couple of trillion more, and Mr. Obama will have a balanced budget.
And worst of all, Clinton co-opts popular conservative ideas like welfare reform and a balanced budget.
The latest push for a balanced budget amendment is just more unseasonable GOP pie-in-the-sky grandiosity.
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Their top priorities: Eliminate the Department of Education and pass the balanced budget amendment.
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