The Blue Dog Coalition, a band of more than 40 House Democrats committed to fiscal discipline, plans to introduce legislation today that would impose caps on some spending, enshrine pay-as-you-go rules in federal law and authorize automatic spending cuts to enforce them. The group also wants to amend the U.S. Constitution to require a balanced budget and to create an array of budget provisions that would focus more attention on what it sees as pork-barrel spending.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Blue Dogs Take Aim At Record Deficits
Blue Dog Democrats who helped the Democrats retake Congress last fall are now focused on pushing the issue of a balanced budget to the top of the list for Congressional issues.
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