Paul Ryan sped into action with his 2013 budget resolution. After releasing it on a Tuesday, he put it up for a vote in the Budget Committee on a Wednesday. This should have been immediately unacceptable to the other 37 members of the Budget Committee who allegedly have a function in crafting the budget. But [...]

Paul Ryan, in his position as the chair of the House Budget Committee, has released a document setting spending limits for the remainder of the 2011 fiscal year, which would reduce spending by $74 billion from the President’s budget request for 2011, but only by $32 billion under current law. The announcement by Ryan, and [...]

The more we look at the House rules, the more we find. Today, the CBPP uncovers a new rule that would give a lot of power to House Budget Committee chair Paul Ryan: Another aspect of the proposed rules also seems at odds with promises made in the campaign about what a new Republican majority [...]

The House Budget Committee, on a mostly party-line vote, just kicked off the procedural process, voting by a 21-16 count to forward the Reconciliation Act of 2010 to the House Rules Committee. The vote itself tells us nothing about what’s in the bill; now the Budget Committee will debate what instructions to offer on reconciliation [...]