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Republicans talk about fiscal responsibility and Congressional oversight often these days.When they were the majority the national debt soared to 9 trillion and oversight was nonexistent.How do they reconcile the apparent contradiction?
Asked by: srd from Arlington, VA. Received 25 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX)
Honesty is the best policy. I think we did spend too much. By cutting taxes we were raising revenue to the federal treasury and bringing down the deficit. In the last year, we did have a big budget showdown over increasing taxes and spending. Through the power of the veto out of the White House we were able to sustain these vetoes, and we were able to stop these enormous tax increases and spending. That was a victory. We had a bit of a wakeup call last election. We understood what our republican voters want from us. They want more fiscal discipline. They want us to stop the pork spending.
Answered on Feb 20th, 2008 More
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Republicans talk about fiscal responsibility and Congressional oversight often these days.When they were the majority the national debt soared to 9 trillion and oversight was nonexistent.How do they reconcile the apparent contradiction?
Asked by: srd from Arlington, VA. Received 25 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX)
Government should be efficient, should be effective and accountable to the people. The debt is the largest that we’ve ever had in our history, its over nine trillion dollars. We need rules like pay-go, pay as you go.
Answered on Feb 20th, 2008 More
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Republicans talk about fiscal responsibility and Congressional oversight often these days.When they were the majority the national debt soared to 9 trillion and oversight was nonexistent.How do they reconcile the apparent contradiction?
Asked by: srd from Arlington, VA. Received 25 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Brian Bilbray (R-CA)
When I left Congress in 2001, we had a balanced budget. We were able to get it done. Let me be partisan on this. For a democrat to attack republicans on this. In the 1990s, every one of the democratic budgets spending more than the republicans were proposing and they were voting against the Republican bills because they weren’t spending enough.….Remember we had a shutdown with president Clinton…M:I think president Clinton would say he was on the other side of that.
Answered on Feb 20th, 2008 More
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Congress is charged with oversight of the Executive Branch. How does the Bush Administration compare with other administrations when it comes to providing information to Congress?
Asked by: DCPundit from Washington, DC. Received 1 Vote.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA)
I think the Bush Administration has been more secretive than any administration in history even more than the Nixon Administration. They set up road blocks even before September eleventh 2001 to try to keep their operations away from the Congress and the American people, which I think is a serious mistake.
Answered on Nov 6th, 2007 More
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