Transcript: White House officials on deficit reduction measures proposed in the FY2014 budget

Monday, April 15, 2013

Edited by Jenny Jiang Partial transcript of remarks by White House officials on deficit reduction measures proposed in the FY2014 budget. The press briefing was held on April…

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Transcript: House GOP’s response to President Barack Obama’s FY2014 budget

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Excerpts from press briefing remarks by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on the FY2014 budget proposed by President Barack Obama on…

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Transcript: Q&A responses by Professor Linda Blimes on the cost of the Iraq War

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Excerpts of Q&A responses by Linda J. Blimes, Harvard Kennedy School Professor and co-author of The Trillion Dollar War, on the cost of the Iraq War at the…

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Simpson-Bowles call for an additional $2.4 trillion in deficit reduction

Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson. SOURCE: Twitter.com/ErskineBowles

Former Senator Alan Simpson (R-Wy.) and former Clinton White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles are pressing Congress and the Obama administration to reduce the deficit by another…

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Roundup: Impacts of sequestration on defense and non-defense programs

Monday, March 4, 2013
SOURCE: WhiteHouse.gov

Congress & President failed to avert sequestration, $85 billion in cuts set to take effect in FY 2013 5 key facts about sequestration   Non-defense discretionary program cuts:…

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Congress & President failed to avert sequestration, $85 billion in cuts set to take effect in FY 2013

Monday, March 4, 2013

The federal government will have to slash $85 billion between now and the end of September after Congress and the White House failed to reach an agreement to…

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Transcript: House Speaker John Boehner’s remarks after the White House sequester meeting on March 1, 2013

Friday, March 1, 2013

Transcript of press briefing remarks by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) after the White House sequester meeting on March 1, 2013:

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Transcript: Simpson-Bowles on the cost of “kicking the can down the road” on deficit reduction

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Transcript of excerpts from the Politico Playbook Breakfast with Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, on sequestration and deficit…

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Transcript: Erskine Bowles calls sequestration “stupid, stupid, stupid”

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Transcript of excerpts from the Politico Playbook Breakfast with Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, on sequestration and deficit…

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Transcript: Simpson-Bowles on controlling health care costs

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Transcript of excerpts from the Politico Playbook Breakfast with Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, on sequestration and deficit…

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