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Charts from 2005
CBO Warns That Long-Term Budget Outlook Has Not Improved
8/15/2005
SBC - Democratic Staff
CBO director Holtz-eaking Warns That Long-Term Budget Outlook Has Not Improved
7/13/2005
SBC - Democratic Staff
Goldman Sachs Believes Revenue Increase Will Not Continue
7/13/2005
SBC - Democratic Staff
Comptroller General Walkers Warns That Fiscal Outlook is Worse Than Claimed
4/28/2005
SBC - Democratic Staff
Bush Administration Funding Core Defense Budget items in Emergency Supplementals
3/1/2005
SBC - Democratic Staff
Bush Administration Promised Not to Use Supplementals to Fund Core Defense Budget
3/1/2005
SBC - Democratic Staff
Bush Administration Belittled Suggestions War Would Be Costly
3/1/2005
SBC - Democratic Staff
Comptroller General Walker warns of Danger of Current Fiscal Outlook
2/17/2005
SBC - Democratic Staff
Bush Budget Hides Cost of President's Policies
2/17/2005
SBC - Democratic Staff
Charts from 2004
CBO Director Holt-Eakin Believes Deficits Can No Longer Be Blamed on Weak Economy
11/17/2004
SBC - Democratic Staff
Value of Dollar Falls as Foreign Investors See Deficits Climbing
11/17/2004
SBC - Democratic Staff
Large Amount of Foreign-Held Debt Could Lead to Economic Turmoil
11/17/2004
SBC - Democratic Staff
US Increasingly Reliant on Financing from Asian Governments
11/17/2004
SBC - Democratic Staff
Paying Down Debt is Also a "Moral Values" Issue
11/17/2004
SBC - Democratic Staff
Deficits and Debt Will Slow Economic Growth
11/17/2004
SBC - Democratic Staff
Former Fed Chairman Volker Believes Large Amount of Foreign-Held Debt Increases Chance of Currency Crisis
10/20/2004
SBC - Democratic Staff
Large Amount of Foreign_Held Debt Could Lead to Economic Turmoil
10/20/2004
SBC - Democratic Staff
Foreign Creditors May Be Starting to Look Elsewhere for Investment
10/20/2004
SBC - Democratic Staff
Bush Admin. Considers Categorizing McDonald's Work as a Manufacturing Job
9/24/2004
SBC - Democratic Staff
Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan Opposes Deficit-Financed Tax Cuts
9/23/2004
SBC - Democratic Staff
CBO Director Believes We Can't Grow Outr Way Out of Deficit
9/23/2004
SBC - Democratic Staff
Bush Administration Promised Deficits wil be Reduced in the Future
9/23/2004
SBC - Democratic Staff
Bush Administration Claims Deficits are Coming Down
9/23/2004
SBC - Democratic Staff
Goldman-Sachs on OMB's Deficit Estimates
9/7/2004
SBC - Democratic Staff
According to President Bush, This Year's Record Deficit 'Pretty Good'
9/7/2004
SBC - Democratic Staff
Bush Budget Hides Cost of Health Care Tax Credit Proposal with "Contingent Offsets"
2/13/2004
SBC - Democratic Staff
President Bush Promised to Protect
Social Security
2/13/2004
SBC - Democratic Staff
Economists Worry About Long-Term Effects of Weak Dollar and Heavy U.S. Borrowing
1/26/2004
SBC - Democratic Staff
Bush Administration Claims on Deficit Have Been Consistently Wrong
1/26/2004
SBC - Democratic Staff
Fed Chairman Greenspan Warns Again of Long-Term Danger of Current Fiscal Course
1/20/2004
SBC - Democratic Staff
Charts from 2003
CBO Warns of Dangers of Current Fiscal Course
9/15/2003
SBC - Democratic Staff
CBO Director Holtz-Eakin Believes Deficits Matter
9/15/2003
SBC - Democratic Staff
Bush Administration Said No Fear of Budget Deficits
9/15/2003
SBC - Democratic Staff
President Bush on Running Deficits
9/15/2003
SBC - Democratic Staff
CBO Concludes "Dynamic" Effect of Bush Budget Would Be Small and Possibly Negative
3/2003
SBC - Democratic Staff
Committee for Economic Development (CED) Findings
3/17/2003
SBC - Democratic Staff
Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan
Believes Deficits Matter
2/11/2003
SBC - Democratic Staff
President Bush Promises to Not Pass on Problems
3/17/2003
SBC - Democratic Staff
President's Plan Would Undermine Potential GDP
2/12/2003
SBC - Democratic Staff
John Snow on Future Needs
2/12/2003
SBC - Democratic Staff
John Snow's Recipe for a Bright Future
2/12/2003
SBC - Democratic Staff
John Snow on Fiscal Discipline
2/12/2003
SBC - Democratic Staff
Bush Administration on Using Conservative Assumptions
2/12/2003
SBC - Democratic Staff
Bush Administration on Importance of Paying Down Debt
2/12/2003
SBC - Democratic Staff
President Bush on Running Deficits
2/12/2003
SBC - Democratic Staff
Bush Administration Said No Fear of Budget Deficits
2/12/2003
SBC - Democratic Staff
Charts from 2002 and 2001
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- President Bush on the Importance of Paying Down Debt
6/18/2002
SBC - Democratic Staff
Adm. Owens on the Defense Budget 2/28/2002
SBC - Democratic Staff
CBO Director Daniel Crippen on Future Needs 2/27/2002
SBC - Democratic Staff
President Bush on Protecting Surpluses 2/27/2002
SBC - Democratic Staff
President Bush's Hollow Promises
SBC - Democratic Staff
OMB Director Daniels on Social Security
SBC - Democratic Staff
Bush Administration's Hollow Promises: Quote from Treasury Secretary O'Neill
SBC - Democratic Staff
Quote from President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security
SBC - Democratic Staff
Comptroller General David Walker
2/15/2001
SBC - Democratic Staff
Comptroller General David Walker
2/15/2001
SBC - Democratic Staff
Comptroller General David Walker
2/15/2001
SBC - Democratic Staff
Peter Orszag
President, Sebago Associates
2/15/2001
SBC - Democratic Staff
Alan Greenspan
Federal Reserve Chairman
2/16/2001
SBC - Democratic Staff
Gary Gensler on Debt Paydown
Excerpt from NY Times
2/28/2001
SBC - Democratic Staff