Judd Gregg

We can try and reinstitute a first-year deficit test, and we can try and reinstitute a second 5 years deficit test. We can adopt a scoring rule that prohibits shifts such as the corporate estimated tax shift from being used to satisfy…

You bet. The student loan reconciliation bill phased down interest rates to 3.4 percent in 2011, then snap them back up again to 6.8 percent in 2012. This kept $17 billion in costs hidden. The student loan bill turned off mandatory Pell…

In the SCHIP bill, the Democrats reduced funding from $14 billion per year to $3.5 billion in the last year, 2012. The gimmick hides $45 billion in spending. The farm bill in the Senate also used this early sunset tactic to hide $18…

Can you believe that? They included a 1-month extension of the mandatory MILC program in the 2007 emergency supplemental. Then the chairmen of the Senate and House Budget Committees told CBO to put the spending into the baseline--which…

They did congratulate themselves. They even boasted about the ``pay-go surplus'' on the pay-go scorecard. But they shouldn't congratulate themselves for hard choices--they should congratulate themselves for thinking up gimmicks and…

It started out that way, but took a left turn. Democrats in the Senate ended up with a watered-down version of pay-go: no first-year deficit-neutrality test; no deficit-neutrality test for the second 5 years--all about spending now, paying…

The fiscal year 2008 budget allows the gross debt to grow dramatically, by $2.5 trillion over 5 years, and spends all of the Social Security surplus, which is more than $1 trillion. It is important to remember that this debt will be paid…

No, it is not true. Democrats have waived, gimmicked or ignored their own pay-go rules to the tune of $143 billion in deficit spending.

Actually, none. The Democratic Congress last year passed up an opportunity to close the tax gap, failing to fund IRS enforcement efforts, and passed bills that would actually expand the tax gap.

Well, Mr. President, again, regrettably, for the American people at least, the Democratic leadership said one thing last year on the budget and did the exact opposite. Not only did they not control any entitlement spending, entitlement…

Yes, they definitely ``used'' it. In my view, the Democrats manipulated the reconciliation process to increase gross spending by $21 billion, while saving a paltry net $750 million over 6 years.

If the Senator is going to allow the bill to be open to LIHEAP, then I presume it should be open to all extraneous amendments. I suspect the amendment of the Senator from South Carolina relative to the city of Berkeley is an extraneous…