We are quickly approaching a national debt of $20 trillion in our country, and unfortunately, the federal government has managed to balance the budget only five times in my lifetime.
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Today, the U.S. House of Representatives approved H.R. 3442, the Debt Management and Fiscal Responsibility Act, which included an amendment introduced by Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA), Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Rep. Steve Stivers (R-OH), and Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL). The Debt Management and Fiscal Responsibility Act would require the Secretary of the Treasury to appear before Congress and submit a report on the general status of the nation’s debt and solutions to control the national debt in advance of any request to raise the debt ceiling. The amendment by Reps. Newhouse, Goodlatte, Stivers, and Byrne directs the Secretary of the Treasury to explain in the report whether the President recommends that Congress adopt a balanced budget amendment to control the accumulation of future debt.
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The following statement can be attributed to Congressman Steve Stivers (R-Columbus): “This short-term plan avoids default, which is fiscally responsible, and I support it; however, we must find a long-term solution to the problem of unsustainable government spending. I believe that solution is a Balanced Budget Amendment to the United States Constitution.”
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September 21, 2013 06:14AM ET | Columbus Disp By Jessica Wehrman and Sophia Lindsey The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Sept. 21--WASHINGTON -- The spending bill that the House passed yesterday to keep the government open but defund Obamacare will be "dead on arrival" in the Senate on Wednesday, that chamber's leader said. The Senate is expected to remove the health-care measure from the bill and send a straight spending bill back to the House. Ohio House Republicans were mixed yesterday over whether th...
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By Alex Felser The Columbus Dispatch | Thursday August 29, 2013 11:44 PM LONDON, Ohio — U.S. Rep. Steve Stivers was welcomed to the Madison County Senior Center tonight as he answered constituents’ questions and talked about the need for a federal balanced budget. But before opening up to questions, Stivers, a Republican from Upper Arlington, reiterated his stance for sustainable government programs that have led him to move forward with an Article Five petition to balance the budget. He explain...
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Atanacio Garcia isn't waiting for Washington to reduce the national debt. The 84-year-old retired postal worker from San Antonio, a man of simple means and a simple credo, donates $50 a month from his pension, plus whatever he makes from collecting aluminum cans in his neighborhood, to reduce Uncle Sam's IOU.
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President Barack Obama signed a bill this week to allocate an additional $400 billion in spending and raise the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling, avoiding a major default in the government. Most importantly for students, this new plan will sustain Pell Grants for undergraduates, but eliminate the in-school interest exemption for graduate and professional student borrowers.
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Rep. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio) isn’t like the rest of his freshman class — for a start, he was handpicked by Speaker John Boehner, to run for Congress.
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House Speaker John Boehner persuaded weary fellow Republicans yesterday evening to approve a bill that would allow the federal government to avoid a default next week in return for deep cuts in federal spending and congressional approval of a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution.
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