Pay as You Go

Should Student Loan Debt Be a Crime?

Keli Goff | Posted 12.31.2011

Keli Goff

An 18 year-old with no credit history and no job walks into a bank and requests a loan to buy a $100,000 condo. What is the loan officer most likely to say?

GOP's Proposed "Cut-Go" Rule Will Add Billions to Deficit, Distort the Budgetary Process

Rep. Lloyd Doggett | Posted 05.25.2011

Rep. Lloyd Doggett

On Day One of this new Congress, after years of professing great concern about the national debt, Republicans are abandoning pay-as-you-go budgeting, returning to the Bush-Cheney approach -- endless borrowing.

Bunning Put a Face on Obstructionist, Mean-Spirited Republican Party

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Leo W. Gerard

Bunning is a Republican superhero. He personifies the mean-spirited, hypocritical, wealthy-serving, obstructionist Republican Party.

Senator Bunning is Right!

Ryan Mack | Posted 05.25.2011

Ryan Mack

Despite how you feel about Bunning's motivation, his position that as a country we must start paying for things as we go in order to not place debt on the shoulders of our future generations is correct.

Obama Weekly Address: Now Congress '

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Saturday new budget rules that say spending cuts must accompany spending increases will force Congress ...

Partners In Change: President Obama and Senator Michael Bennet

Nancy Cronk | Posted 05.25.2011

Nancy Cronk

The divisions are deep, the fear explosive, and real solutions hard to find. But still, in each community, in each school and in each workplace, a small voice here and there says, "Yes... we still can."

Keeping the Long-Term Fiscal Picture in Mind

Rep. Steny Hoyer | Posted 05.25.2011

Rep. Steny Hoyer

Progressives understand that growing debt and interest payments, unless curtailed now, will eat up money that should go to the long-term investments that matter most, like clean energy, education and health care.

Ryan Grim

Pelosi: 'We'll Never Have Deficit Reduction Unless We Have Job Creation'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

The deficit debate in Washington misses the fundamental point, said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Tuesday, arguing that the primary objecti...

Blue Dog Dems Cashing In On Clout

The Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 05.25.2011

Members of the House of Representatives once again canceled a health care markup session on Thursday after negotiations with Blue Dog Democrats stalle...

Obama Endorses Pay-As-You-Go

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed budget rules that would allow Congress to borrow tens of billions of dollars and put the...