Federal Budget
House Kills Plan to Close Guantanamo
May 24th
The Public Record 5/24/10 Posted by Andy Worthington A U.S. Army soldier with Echo Company, 629th Military Intelligence Battalion, keeps watch from a guard tower at the Joint Task Force Guantanamo detention center on Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Nov. 13, 2006. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Jon Soucy President Obama’s hopes of closing [...]
America’s candor gap on the budget
Feb 8th
washingtonpost.com
By Robert J. Samuelson
Monday, February 8, 2010
In all the recent reports, speeches and news conferences concerning the federal budget outlook — including the administration’s proposed budget for 2011 — hardly anyone has posed these crucial questions: What should the federal government do and why; and who should pay? We ought to go back to [...]
A Very Obama Budget
Feb 5th
Obama, Federal Budget, Center for American Progress
Federal Budget
The President’s 2011 Budget Reflects His Unwavering Priorities
By Michael Ettlinger | February 1, 2010
The president’s budget reflects the important investments that he has championed since his first entry into the race to become president—the economy, health reform, education, and energy—balanced with the particular needs of a nation just [...]
More Thoughts on the Budget (Deficit)
Feb 2nd
Campaign for America’s Future
Common Sense on Budgets
Amid the blizzard of statistics, trillion-dollar deficits, howls about impending bankruptcy, and Republican stupocrisy that surround the budget, it is worth repeating a little common sense.
DIGBY
Deficit Fever
Suddenly, you can’t turn around without getting a panicked lecture about the deficit. But in all the discussions about the horrifying, worse-than-terrorism, scarier-than-nuclear-war [...]
In budget, Obama tries to balance vision against current needs
Feb 2nd
Analysis
In budget, Obama tries to balance vision against current needs
By Alec MacGillis
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
The $3.8 trillion budget he proposed on Monday points to a tension he has been grappling with since taking office: how to balance the immediate needs for stimulus and deficit reduction against his agenda for sustained, broad-based growth.
The [...]
How Obama’s budget would affect each agency
Feb 2nd
washingtonpost.com
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Defense
The Pentagon would get a 3.4 percent boost to its regular discretionary budget, plus extra money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the Obama administration’s spending plans for 2011. President Obama is requesting a total of $708 billion for the Defense Department next year: $549 billion for its [...]
Senate Republicans seem to have one answer for Democrats: No
Jan 29th
washingtonpost.com
By Dana Milbank
Friday, January 29, 2010
In his State of the Union address Wednesday night, President Obama asked lawmakers to “work through our differences, to overcome the numbing weight of our politics.”
On Thursday, Republicans sent their answer.
The Senate took a vote on extending the federal debt ceiling — without which the United States would go into [...]
Some truths about that deficit
Jan 29th
By Scot Lehigh
January 29, 2010
DEFICIT HAWKS of the world, rejoice! Long ignored, the federal budget deficit has finally arrived as an issue.
President Barack Obama just took a small step forward, announcing a limited federal spending freeze, to commence in 2011, plus a commission to recommend remedies.
The GOP, meanwhile, has suddenly remembered that a long time [...]
