Democrats and Republicans agree on the amount of deficit reduction we need.
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The American people are right and the arithmetic is clear: You cannot achieve the amount of deficit reduction needed with spending cuts alone.
There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but the sequestration helped restrain the growth of spending and helped bring about a record amount of deficit reduction in 1987.
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And as the CBO has said, and as outside economic organizations have said, we'll see a contraction in the amount of GDP growth -- reduction in the amount of GDP growth by a full half of a percent or more.
We chose the amount of long-term deficit reduction to ensure that our debt and deficits were falling as a percentage of our economy -- an important metric for ensuring confidence in whether the United States is still the best place to make long-term investments.
And that produces now in the 10-year window a certain amount of revenue toward deficit reduction.
The savings would largely come from a reduction in the amount of expenses being claimed by councillors, he added.
He would do this in concert with a reduction in the amount of tax deductions that distort economic activity.
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Any reduction in the amount of fuel we use translates into fewer convoys, and thus fewer lives lost protecting that fuel.
Between 2007 and 2010 the agency also mandates a phased 92% reduction in the amount of NOx emitted from a truck's tailpipe.
In a non-negotiable six minutes, long answers equal dead time and a sharp reduction in the amount of questions you can ask.
The argument for doing so is that there would be a reduction in the amount of debt that needs to be refinanced in the short term.
The council said it had to make the savings because it had had a 28% reduction in the amount of money it received from central government.
In addition, there was a reduction in the amount of DNA damage - errors that occur when a cell divides - seen in the three groups.
Some of them will still get away with fraud, there is no doubt, but we can at least aim for a major reduction in the amount of it.
He called for a ban on all soft drinks and significant reduction of the amount of sweets available, while insisting children try healthy food they claimed not to like.
Iran suggested last week that one proposal may be a reduction in the amount of uranium it enriches to 20%, but it was unclear Friday if such a proposal was still on the table.
More stringent engine standards were already set to take effect three years hence, and the EPA was now requiring at least a 90% reduction in the amount of nitrogen oxides and soot emanating from diesel engines.
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For now ArvinMeritor is marketing its plasma fuel reformer to the commercial trucking industry, which is scrambling to comply with tough new emission laws that are looming in Europe and the U.S. By 2007 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will require a 90% reduction in the amount of soot (unburned carbon).
Although the bank's income has fallen by 14% in the first nine months of the year, this was outstripped by further benefits from cost-cutting - which saw 4, 796 jobs cut - and a reduction in the amount of money it has had to set aside for losses on past loans that have turned bad.
The fifty-one Conservative House Democrats known as the Blue Dogs forced a reduction in the over-all amount of spending.
Finally, the settlement dictated that if the judge refused to award fees to the lawyers, or cut the amount, the reduction stayed with the defendant instead of going to the class.
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Hop Farm Trading blamed decreasing numbers of visitors and a reduction in the average amount spent by each visitor, as well as continued bad weather.
The legislation also increases the deficit reduction target for the Joint Committee by the amount of the cost of the jobs package and specifies that, if the Committee reaches that higher target, then their measures would replace and turn off the specific offsets in this legislation.
Obesity causes impairments in lung function, such as a reduction in lung volume and an increase in the amount of oxygen used during breathing, but these on its own would not be enough to induce the condition.
Each employee will lose one day of work every other week, which will amount to a 10 percent reduction in available controller work hours to staff air traffic facilities on any given day.
Graham MacGregor, professor of cardiovascular medicine at Queen Mary, who led the study, said that the "modest reduction" in salt intake was equivalent to halving the amount of salt we consume each day.
To meet its emissions reduction and renewable energy targets, the government needs to increase the amount of energy produced by wind and nuclear power, in particular, but also other forms of clean energy such as biomass.
Ideally, the Board will suggest reduction in payments on care that is not necessary, which is a significant amount of health care that is provided these days under our fee for service model.
It means the amount of trans fat in those menu items will be cut by some 95%, a major reduction in an unsaturated fatty acid that has been implicated in heart disease and clogged veins.
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