Mr Romney has embraced the budget of Paul Ryan, the Republican chairman of the Budget Committee in the House of Representatives, which promises steep cuts in federal entitlements, including food stamps and Medicaid, and the replacement of traditional Medicare for the old with cheaper vouchers.
John Kasich, the Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee, calls the bill egregious.
"He's just going to duck the responsibility to tackle this country's fiscal problems, " Republican Congressman Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, told the Associated Press news agency.
The new finance minister has held a number of cabinet posts, including the transport and education portfolios and is currently a member of the Lower House budget committee and was manager of Koizumi's campaign to head the LDP.
Plus, as chairman of the House Budget Committee, Ryan has one of the most important jobs in the country right now pressuring President Obama to cut spending and get the country to where it can live within its means.
After giving his usual description of the economic outlook (inflation has remained moderate, unemployment is high, Fed will do whatever it can to keep the modest recovery on track), Bernanke faced the sharp tongue of Paul Ryan, Chairman of the House Budget Committee.
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The popular Chairman of the House Budget Committee said on CNBC May 17 that it would be okay if the US ceased paying holders of Treasury bonds for three or more days because it would give the country a few days to catch a breather and pay those debts later on.
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It is an effort, of course, to sway politicians closer to the slash and burn strategy of Paul Ryan, Chairman of the House Budget Committee.
On Thursday, the Fed Chairman was questioned by the House Budget Committee on the state of the economy.
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Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee, and Rep. Diana DeGette of Colorado were among dozens of Democrats urging the president to warn what would be lost if the law were repealed.
Paul Ryan, the new chairman of the House Budget Committee, maintains that he will pare back non-security spending in what remains of the current fiscal year to the level of 2008.
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The President has consistently put forward proposals that achieve that goal in a balanced way -- the submission to the super committee, his budget, his proposal to Speaker of the House John Boehner.
Mr. Ryan, a congressman from Wisconsin, serves as chairman of the House Budget Committee.
Mr. Ryan's position as chairman of the House Budget Committee gave it clout and prominence.
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John Kasich, chairman of the House Budget Committee, makes the same points better.
As Chairman of the House Budget Committee, I assure you that we want to work with the President to restrain federal spending.
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The proposal, already widely reported in the press, drew criticism Sunday from Rep. John Kasich, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Budget Committee.
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As chairman of the House Budget Committee, Mr Ryan has proposed giving the elderly a voucher to spend on private insurance or Medicare itself.
As chairman of the House Budget Committee, Ryan said Republicans needed to guard against a debt crisis for the country that would undermine the economy.
Just 46, he served 16 years as a Republican congressman from Iowa, from 1991 to 2007, and in 2001 became chairman of the House Budget Committee.
How this can work is shown by the Ryan Roadmap, the comprehensive legislation introduced by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), now Chairman of the House Budget Committee.
As chairman of the House Budget Committee, Ryan will take the lead role in crafting a blueprint expected to rely heavily on savings from benefit programs.
Ryan is a brilliant man with pro-growth impulses, but, as Chairman of the House Budget Committee, he developed a public image as a budget-cutting Austerity Republican.
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In the meantime, one parallel to Wisconsin will become immediately apparent on Tuesday, if it has not already: the Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee, Rep. Paul Ryan, hails from Wisconsin.
Yet as chairman of the House Budget Committee Mr Ryan has backed his big ideas with detailed plans for reducing spending, involving cuts or radical reforms in such sensitive areas as Medicare (see article).
The promise and peril of a colorful choice is exemplified by Mr. Ryan, who, as chairman of the House Budget Committee, has drafted budget plans that cut taxes and spending and overhaul safety-net programs, making him a hero to conservatives.
On April 5th Paul Ryan, the young chairman of the House Budget Committee, laid out a brave counter-proposal for next year's budget and beyond (see article) brave both in identifying the scope of the problem and in proposing the kind of deeply unpopular medicine that will be needed to cope with it.
Some - including the bipartisan leadership of the House Appropriations Committee and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan - have lately expressed concern about the fees the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) would be able to charge and retain to fund its operations.
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Mr Ryan chairs the budget committee in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, and is seen as likely to add electoral firepower on what are expected to be the key election issues - jobs, the economy and the budget deficit.
Ryan, the conservative House Budget Committee chairman from Wisconsin, has proposed a partial privatization of the entitlement that would provide government subsidies to help senior citizens pay for coverage they would choose from a list of options.
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