To promote growth, he went on, America needs to keep the budget balanced, fix entitlement programmes, and invest in education.
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.
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budget is balanced, with essential spending increases for programs like Social Security offset with the termination of outdated or inappropriate programs that no longer serve a desirable function.
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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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.
And worst of all, Clinton co-opts popular conservative ideas like welfare reform and a balanced budget.
The same drafting error came up when GOP senators introduced a balanced budget amendment in 2011.
Lott said reaching a balanced budget is much harder without the CPI on the table.
But the folks who put a balanced budget above economic growth have their priorities upside down.
Six and a half years ago, we had a balanced budget and a surplus.
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It also would be reflected in a balanced budget, excluding interest payments on the debt.
The proposed Balanced Budget Amendment would also include a supermajority requirement to raise taxes.
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But a statutory debt limit is a poor substitute for a constitutional balanced budget amendment.
My balanced budget will help to hire 100, 000 new teachers who pass the state competency test.
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