For Congress, it means passing budget reforms that impose hard and enforceable limits on new spending and debt.
That legislation includes personal accounts for Social Security, fundamental reform of Medicare and Medicaid, general health care reform, tax reform, and other budget reforms.
The recalls are the latest in a series of extreme measures aimed at first preventing and then retaliating for Walker's budget reforms, which curtail the power of government employee unions.
The First Minister said that the recent budget covered reforms to reduce the regulatory burden on business.
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This budget extends those reforms to other federal aid programs.
Internal political turmoil has delayed economic development in Ukraine and the IMF loan depends on the ex-Soviet state being able to balance its budget and make reforms to its banking sector.
There is an irony in Mr Rutte's predicament: his government was the most strident in demanding budget cuts and reforms elsewhere, and yet has fallen apart over a more modest adjustment than those imposed on Greece and Spain.
The challenger is the nearest thing to a tea-party candidate to be found in Ohio, where Republicans tend to be fiscal and social conservatives (Mr Kasich recently wrote a book on faith, and when in Congress played a big role in the budget and welfare reforms of the mid-1990s).
Prominent Republicans are using the debt limit discussion as an opportunity to debate budget cuts and entitlement reforms.
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He needs them in future negotiations not just on the budget but also on reforms of EU banking rules.
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It is true that Greece can survive within the euro only with a gruelling downward adjustment of wages and prices, which demands painful budget cuts and structural reforms.
But government sources suggested such a move could end up undermining clinical commissioning groups - the new bodies which are taking control of the health budget under the government reforms.
Mr Rutte and Mr Wilders hope to secure support from the SGP, which holds the seat they need, based on shared attitudes towards immigration restrictions, economic reforms and budget cuts.
The budget measures include a few reforms, like removing subsidies for new interest-only mortgages.
Italians voted for change, an alternative to the budget austerity and "structural reforms" backed by the euro-zone authorities.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker made a number of positive budget and collective-bargaining reforms and wants tax cuts this year.
The best case scenario was a last minute budget deal, with subpar reforms and cutbacks, which is exactly what happened.
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As Europe tries to contain a long-running debt crisis, its leaders are instituting reforms to tame budget deficits, invigorate growth and regain investor confidence.
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One EU official said the electoral campaigning has diverted attention from reforms and pushed the budget off track.
The entitlement reforms in the Ryan budget would be a good start, along with some much-needed pruning of discretionary spending.
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Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi lost his one-vote majority after a dissenting MP reportedly voted against the budget bill in protest over transport reforms.
Buffeted by the international financial turmoil, Brazil, having doubled interest rates to bolster its overvalued currency, turned to long-term reforms to cut its budget deficit.
In its transition report, the EBRD said that economic growth was steady in the region - but warned that reforms like privatisation and budget restraint were under threat in Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.
The economic reforms proposed in the recent budget are not its only achievement.
Then to pass balanced budget amendments and adopt tax and regulation reforms that makes them competitive with the rest of the world.
Santorum protested that these reforms are needed to balance the budget now, rather than for personal accounts.
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To ensure overall success, the GOP budget must be accompanied by pro-growth monetary reforms.
But firms making traditional remedies are, like their pharmaceutical counterparts, feeling the pinch of government reforms and cuts in the national drugs budget: as many as a third of traditional producers are in the red.
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