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Desire for More Spending Stalls Drive for Budget Discipline
Jul 23, 2008 | 1:00 PM
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Desire for More Spending Stalls Drive for Budget Discipline

According to the NTU Foundation's latest BillTally report, lawmakers in the first session of the 110th Congress introduced more savings bills than recent Congresses, but for each single step toward fiscal responsibility with a bill to reduce the federal budget, Representatives and Senators introduced 22 bills and 30 bills, respectively, to increase it. "Although there are some signs that more lawmakers in the 110th Congress are seeking out ways to trim expenditures, these steps have been halting and erratic," said NTUF Senior Policy Analyst Demian Brady, who authored the study. "The majority of Congressional Members sponsor a mix of legislation that would, on net, result in new spending, thereby increasing the strain on the budget and the burden on taxpayers."

Excluding overlapping legislation, if the House passed all of the bills introduced in 2007, annual federal outlays would add a burden of $14,802 to every household (a $1.7 trillion increase overall). In the Senate, all non-overlapping bills would pile an additional $9,857 on every household (a $1.1 trillion total increase).

You can read the Foundation's report as well as view detailed reports for each Member of Congress here.

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