The U.S. House has passed a resolution which will block further discretionary government spending and pull back the budget to levels before the stimulus bill was enacted in 2008. The legislation allows Budget Chairman Paul Ryan to have the authority to set spending limits on non-security discretionary items within the federal budget.
These legislative items are part of the Republican plan to cut back federal spending and reduce the deficit. Speaker of the House John Boehner says the GOP will bring at least one bill per week for debate that fulfills this standard.
Wednesday, the House plans to debate and vote on one of the "You Cut" GOP proposals. One of the items is to solicit input from citizens on where to cut the budget. The first item on the list is H.R. 359, a bill to reduce federal spending and the deficit by terminating taxpayer financing of presidential election campaigns and party conventions.
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