The idea, he said, is "that we can focus a limited, controlled EU budget much more effectively on the poorer member states".
In return, they demand that the Democratic-controlled Senate pass a budget for the first time in four years, which would provide a platform for a detailed congressional debate on spending.
You know, this is Democratic-controlled Congress now and the budget is in its lap.
Can expenses be controlled and not exceed the budget?
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If the Democrat-controlled legislature fails to approve a budget by the necessary two-thirds majority (always possible, given the size of the Republican minority), or if the governor decides to veto the budget, the previous year's spending levels will automatically continue.
In balancing the budget, this Administration has controlled Federal spending well beyond the record of its predecessors.
The new government got this year's budget through the opposition-controlled Congress only by agreeing to increase the fiscal deficit.
If US President Barack Obama wanted to maintain that level of spending, the Republican-controlled Congress would probably pass his defense budget.
The Democrat-controlled Senate is unlikely to pass a budget cut that big.
The social welfare budget for NI is still controlled from Whitehall.
Chairman Pete Domenici of New Mexico got the Budget Committee in the Republican-controlled Senate to approve the plan on a partisan 11-to-9 vote.
Mr Ryan chairs the budget committee in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, and is seen as likely to add electoral firepower on what are expected to be the key election issues - jobs, the economy and the budget deficit.
The Republican move is designed to force the Democratic-controlled Senate to put forward a long-term budget plan.
It isn't clear whether or how Democrats can bridge the vast differences between their Senate budget and the version passed by the Republican-controlled House Thursday.
Even after selecting Mr. Ryan, the Romney team has kept some distance from the details of the Ryan budget, which has been backed by the Republican-controlled House.
The Conservative-controlled council said the money would come from "reprioritising" the transport budget and additional government funding.
The budgets produced by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, and the votes in the Republican controlled House adopting them, are reframing the 2012 elections.
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The lower house of Congress, Peronist-controlled until December 10th, on November 28th had approved, almost unchanged, the 1998 budget, itself almost unchanged from the version prepared before the Asian blizzard struck in October.
The GOP budget proposes, among other things, turning Medicaid into a block-grant program controlled by the states, restructuring Medicare and reducing the top individual and corporate tax rates to 25% from 35%.
The Labour-controlled authority has begun a public consultation ahead of setting what it described as "the most radical budget in its history".
Republicans in the GOP-controlled House twice last year passed legislation that would have shifted the defense portion of the cuts elsewhere in the federal budget, most notably cuts to the food-stamp program and a requirement forcing federal employees to contribute more to their retirement savings.
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