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Blue Dogs Show Rabid Interest in Fiscal Austerity [1]
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Date: 2008-03-10
With Congress sidestepping budget rules and facing a sparse election-year agenda, members of the fiscally conservative Democratic Blue Dog Coalition are going back to the basics this session.
“We’re going to be the fiscal police,” Rep. Allen Boyd (D-Fla.), one of the group’s four co-chairmen, said during an interview with fellow Blue Dog leaders on Thursday.
Rep. Mike Ross (D-Ark.), also a Blue Dog co-chairman, echoed that the group, which comprises 47 House Members, will focus on a core principle: pay-as-you-go budget rules.
“Regardless of what bill comes to the floor this year, our job is to make sure that it’s paid for, that it’s fiscally responsible. We see that as the major role we’ll play this year,” Ross said. PAYGO requires any spending increases to be offset, or paid for, with comparative budget cuts or tax increases.
That renewed focus comes in the wake of months in which it has appeared that PAYGO rules, if not dead, had gone into a deep hibernation.
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