But the issues are too important to let the rhetoric shape tax and budget reform.
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And that's just what we'll do with this landmark legislation -- the Veterans Health Care Budget Reform and Transparency Act.
We need several healthcare reform panels much like the budget reform groups, because in the long-run they are really the same thing.
This time, both countries rejected the original British proposals for budget reform.
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The young governor pushed through the state legislature a massive budget reform package aimed at righting the fiscal ship of the Badger State.
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Obama has promised that his administration will embrace budget reform.
Internal polling by the governor's team reckons that budget reform will attract 55% of the voters, the restriction on union spending will be supported by 68%, and the change to teachers' tenure by another 68%.
The budget process was criticized for continuing Albany's tradition of closed-door negotiations among top leaders with little if any real role for rank-and-file lawmakers, who under a budget reform law were supposed to hash out spending agreements in public.
The snag for the Republicans is that they will have to decide on whether or not to allow the stimulus package to go through long before it is clear whether any attempt to get to grips with budget reform will bear fruit.
The two senators want to see the establishment of a bipartisan commission that would draw up a programme of budget reform to be submitted to Congress for a straight up or down vote, with no possibility of amendment, since amendments would surely cause the whole thing to unravel.
So, because we know that spiraling health care costs are crushing families and dragging down the entire economy, and because we know it represents one of the fastest-growing parts of our budget, we've made a historic commitment to health care reform in this budget -- reform that brings us closer to the day when health care is affordable and accessible for every single American.
But there is no way to know today how much of the credit would be refundable, or even whether budget process reform would change those rules.
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Moreover, it is quite likely that a strategy of short-term spending bills will complicate GOP efforts to get budget process reform in a couple of months in exchange for an increase in the debt limit.
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And it has plenty of issues with which to occupy itself at present: the Union must fix a new seven-year budget, reform its farm policy, and pave the way for new entrants from the east.
Having fallen out with the Tories over the budget, Lords reform, boundary changes, energy policy, the Leveson report, and drugs reform, the Lib Dems will now make a virtue of these differences.
In an environment of severe budget constraint and at a time when policymakers are considering both budget and tax reform, is it time to rethink the role of charities and other non-profits?
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The structure of the welfare budget suggests that serious reform must take on spending on the sick and disabled, which accounts for 24% of the total budget.
Reform the budget and then you can actually get on with a lower net contribution.
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But as we work to reform our budget, Congress should also put some skin in the game.
"We think the time to get the balanced budget done and welfare reform done is now, " said Gingrich.
The connection to the tax reform and budget debate in Washington is clear.
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Sweeney felt personally attacked, having worked with Christie on a number of budget issues including pension reform and property tax caps.
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Slight problem: There's plenty of real work to be done, on the budget, on tax reform, on immigration, climate change and guns.
But a cocktail of major reform and budget cuts obliges politicians and police chiefs to be a bit more precise than that.
When Republicans took control of Congress in 1994, President Bill Clinton was still able to get a balanced budget and major welfare reform.
For Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, the answer is to show that the single currency is backed by the commitment of all members to budget discipline and structural reform.
Can stalemate over the budget lead to monetary reform?
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And that includes not just budget issues but immigration reform, reducing gun violence, the need to invest in infrastructure and education, manufacturing -- the kinds of things that traditionally, as you and I know, Steve, from having covered it, have enjoyed bipartisan support.
Liberal Democrat Stephen Williams told the government it was right to call for a freeze in the budget, but urged ministers to "vigorously" press the case for reform of the EU budget, stating it was "ludicrous" that agriculture was still the largest area of spending, rather than the "industries of the future".
But in the end, bringing America's budget under control requires radical reform to all entitlements.
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