Scott Milburn
Scott Milburn
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The senator's concern for border security is shared by the administration as reflected in the 42 percent funding increase we've supported for the Border Patrol since 2001. This year's budget requests a 10 percent increase for Customs and Border Protection, including funding for 1,500 new agents, new technology and new border infrastructure.
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Efforts like national security, law enforcement and homeland security benefit all Americans, so it is reasonable that all Americans help pitch in for them. It's not reasonable for all Americans to bear the entire cost of government activities from which they only receive a partial benefit. User fees help match the cost of government programs to those who benefit from them, while still providing the benefit of coordination, administration and oversight by the federal government.
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Currently the federal government does share royalties with coastal statesmore than $3 trillion to date, in fact. Changing this amount only increases the budget deficit and diminishes the benefit the rest of the nation receives from these national resources.
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There's going to be savings. And as the president said, he's committed to finding savings and we're in the process of finding savings.
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Under the constitution, federal laws take priority over inconsistent state laws. Decisions about whether particular rules should preempt state laws are made agency by agency and rule by rule.
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We've got to get away from the idea that it's OK to waste just a little money. When you've got a $2.77 trillion budget, a lot of little problems add up to big money.
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With the 2004 and 2005 fire season having been relatively less active than normal, surplus funds sit in this account and can be rescinded without hurting the program,
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This report confirms the dramatic improvement in the 2005 deficit picture that the administration reported last month, ... The president is committed to the combination of strong economic growth and spending restraint that will keep us on track to cut the deficit in half by 2009.
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We asked for $4 billion in savings in 2005 and got only $300 million, but we dusted ourselves off and asked for the savings again, and more, and got $6.5 billion the next year. Persistence pays off if you're doing the right thing.
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The president's insistence on spending restraint resulted in both the highway and energy bills coming in far less than originally proposed by Congress.
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The president signed into law a $100 million increase for the corps for the current fiscal year compared to the previous year's level.
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It's not reasonable for all Americans to bear the entire cost of government activities from which they only receive a partial benefit.
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Congress presented a bill certified by both chambers. It's been signed into law, and we consider the matter closed.
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It should be no surprise that two different organizations, using different analysts, different methodologies and different assumptions come to different math at the end of the day. Where there's no difference, however, is that both OMB and CBO forecast that we meet the president's goal of cutting the deficit in half by 2009.