The Budget proposes discretionary spending caps as well as restraints on new mandatory spending.
Capuano questions the purported budget surpluses, noting Social Security's contribution, and points to "emergency" spending measures that circumvent spending caps.
They also propose to increase the spending allowed under the spending caps adopted as part of the 2011 debt ceiling deal.
None of his State of the Union proposals tackled the long-term deficit in a meaningful way, either through future tax increases or entitlement spending caps.
So what does all this have to do with spending caps?
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Discretionary spending caps, the deficit and probable continued Republican control of the House of Representatives stand in the way of new or expanded spending programmes.
Republican leaders, in turn, still claim they want to pass bills within the spending caps, even though they seem unable to draw up such bills.
The deficit-reduction measure doesn't appropriate money for more reviews, but it would allow Congress to allocate funds for them without being limited by the bill's spending caps.
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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Under congressional budget scoring rules, funding for new IRS initiatives is exempt from otherwise applicable spending caps if an initiative is projected to produce an ROI of greater than 1:1.
The deficit-reduction deal's spending caps contain an exemption for the Social Security Administration that could allow the agency to quickly ramp up its reviews of recipients' continuing eligibility for disability benefits.
The divide is typical in citywide races in New York, where the voters are often late to tune in and where strict spending caps force candidates to save advertising money for later.
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Instead, it spoke in dire terms of the possibility that America could lose its AAA credit rating, and advocated spending cuts, spending caps, and a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution as the solution.
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Budget constraints: A Resource Restriction Agreement caps spending on racing operations for all Formula One teams, making efficiency and operational improvements imperative.
The ruse, they argued, would allow Congress to spend more money without breaching the caps on government spending.
The ruse, they argued, would allow Congress to spend more money with-out breaching the caps on government spending.
The law creating the sequester (the Budget Control Act of 2011) lowers statutory caps on the spending authority of federal agencies.
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The caps on discretionary spending (that is, all spending excluding entitlements such as Medicare) were last set as part of the 1997 bipartisan budget deal.
Then, after months of tumultuous and largely unsuccessful negotiations, Congress passed later that summer the Budget Control Act that raised the debt ceiling in return for caps on discretionary spending.
Fourth, caps on discretionary spending have had limited success.
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How fast will discretionary spending rise or fall under the caps?
But Mr Obama and Congress have already agreed to draconian caps that will shrink such spending to its lowest share of GDP since the 1950s.
Last fixed in 1997, the caps on increases in discretionary spending (which covers everything other than entitlements such as Medicare) are extraordinarily tight this year.
But whether for defence, education or anything else, Republican spending proposals bring another headache: the budget caps.
The NBA and NFL have salary caps designed to keep some parity in spending.
At the same time, he proposed a number of new programs that the White House describes as "mandatory" spending, which wouldn't be subject to the caps.
Either the caps will be repositioned (Congress is well known for its ability to provide extra spending in the short run in return for eschewing future profligacy), or they will be avoided by accounting gimmicks.
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