In This Issue - The Bush Budget Legacy

Download or read book In This Issue - The Bush Budget Legacy written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balanced Budget Gimmicks Enable Case for Making Tax Cuts Permanent The drastic level of cuts in non-defense discretionary spending in this budget, especially in the out years of the budget window, along with unrealistic assumptions about the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and AMT reform, are proposed in order to show, at least on paper, a world where the president's 2001 and 2003 tax cu. [...] Stimulus Status: The Eye of the Storm Momentum in Congress to pass a fiscal stimulus plan has halted for the moment, with the nation's political attention focused on the biggest primary day ever and, to a lesser degree, on the release of the president's FY 2009 budget proposal. [...] The legislators argue that the proposed rule ignores language in the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 which preserves the responsibility of the manufacturers to "promptly update their own product labels to reflect the most current safety information available." Both the law and Congress's intent regarding the labeling responsibilities are clear, the letter states, and FDA has no. [...] "Such a move is not only contrary to the express intent of the Congress, but it is also contrary to the very purpose of this legislation - to ensure the timely and fair resolution of American's FOIA requests," Leahy stated in the speech. [...] The facts and circumstances to be considered include, but are not limited to, the context for the link on the organization's website, whether all candidates are represented, any exempt purpose served by offering the link, and the directness of the links..." Rev.