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CONCORD COALITION URGES CONGRESS TO ENACT INFLATION-ADJUSTED SPENDING CAPS

Sep 11, 2000

WASHINGTON -- With Congress and the Administration scheduled to resume their year-end budget negotiations Tuesday, The Concord Coalition today released an issue brief entitled “Discretionary Spending Caps: What's (more…)

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CONCORD COALITION RELEASES NEW KEY QUESTIONS VOTERS SHOULD ASK CANDIDATES ABOUT THE BUDGET, SOCIAL SECURITY & MEDICARE

Jul 26, 2000

WASHINGTON -- The Concord Coalition today released a revised, election 2000 version of a brochure called “Key Questions Voters Should Ask Candidates About the Budget, Social Security and Medicare.” The brochure, now available on-line, outlines six questions (more…)

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CONCORD COALITION URGES CONGRESS TO ENACT REALISTIC SPENDING CAPS

Jul 18, 2000

WASHINGTON -- With huge new surplus estimates threatening fiscal discipline, The Concord Coalition urged Congress and the Administration to reach an agreement as soon as possible on a new set of discretionary spending caps that would replace the 1997 budget…

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CONCORD COALITION WARNS THAT THE NEW “SURPLUS” IS NOT NEW MONEY, IT’S SIMPLY A NEW PROJECTION

Jun 26, 2000

WASHINGTON -- The Concord Coalition urged Congress and the Administration to use the larger-than-expected budget surplus for savings rather than rushing to spend it or give it away in tax cuts. While heartened by the good news, Concord warned that…

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CONCORD COALITION WARNS AGAINST USING SURPLUS FOR NON-EMERGENCY SPENDING

Mar 29, 2000

WASHINGTON -- As the U.S. House of Representatives prepares to vote on an emergency supplemental appropriations package for fiscal year 2000 (HR 3908), The Concord Coalition urges lawmakers not to use the projected non-Social Security surplus for spending that does…

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CONCORD COALITION FAVORS BLUE DOG BUDGET ALTERNATIVE

Mar 23, 2000

WASHINGTON -- As the House of Representatives prepares to vote on the Concurrent Budget Resolution (H. Con. Res. 290), The Concord Coalition today announced that it favors the alternative plan offered by the Blue Dog Coalition over the Republican Budget…

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CONCORD COALITION WARNS AGAINST FISCAL YEAR 2000 SURPLUS GIVEAWAY

Mar 8, 2000

WASHINGTON -- With the budget process now underway, attention will naturally be focused on the projected budget surpluses for fiscal years 2001 through 2010. What cannot be forgotten however, is that unlike past years, there is a small, yet very…

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CONCORD COALITION WARNS AGAINST SURPLUS “EXPECTATIONS” GAME

Jan 24, 2000

WASHINGTON -- The Concord Coalition today warned lawmakers not to treat the new surplus projections to be issued this week by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) as money in the bank. The existence and size of projected budget surpluses, particularly…

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CONCORD COALITION URGES REALISTIC SURPLUS PROJECTIONS IN FY2001 BUDGET NEGOTIATIONS

Jan 12, 2000

WASHINGTON -- The Concord Coalition today urged Congress and the Administration to maintain their laudable goal of balancing the budget without tapping into the Social Security surplus, but warned against making policy decisions based on unrealistic surplus projections that assume…

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IT’S OFFICIAL: 1999 BUDGET DEFICIT WAS $1 BILLION WITHOUT COUNTING THE SOCIAL SECURITY SURPLUS

Oct 27, 1999

WASHINGTON -- The Concord Coalition welcomed today's news that the federal government's budget deficit shrank to just $1 billion in fiscal year 1999 without counting the Social Security surplus. However, the Coalition reminded Congress and the Administration that the surplus…

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CONCORD COALITION TO RUN AD IN SUNDAY’S NY TIMES URGING CONGRESS & THE PRESIDENT NOT TO SQUANDER THE SURPLUS

Aug 14, 1999

WASHINGTON -- The Concord Coalition has placed a full-page advertisement in this Sunday's New York Times (August 15, 1999) urging President Clinton and Members of Congress not to squander the surplus, and to fix Social Security and Medicare first. …

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CONCORD COALITION OPPOSES TAKING AVIATION TRUST FUND “OFF BUDGET”

Jun 15, 1999

WASHINGTON -- The Concord Coalition today announced its strong opposition to H.R.1000, the Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century (AIR-21), because it would take the aviation trust fund "off budget." Concord opposes this proposal because it would…

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CONCORD COALITION URGES CONGRESS TO ENACT INFLATION-ADJUSTED SPENDING CAPS

CONCORD COALITION RELEASES NEW KEY QUESTIONS VOTERS SHOULD ASK CANDIDATES ABOUT THE BUDGET, SOCIAL SECURITY & MEDICARE

CONCORD COALITION URGES CONGRESS TO ENACT REALISTIC SPENDING CAPS

CONCORD COALITION WARNS THAT THE NEW “SURPLUS” IS NOT NEW MONEY, IT’S SIMPLY A NEW PROJECTION

CONCORD COALITION WARNS AGAINST USING SURPLUS FOR NON-EMERGENCY SPENDING

CONCORD COALITION FAVORS BLUE DOG BUDGET ALTERNATIVE

CONCORD COALITION WARNS AGAINST FISCAL YEAR 2000 SURPLUS GIVEAWAY

CONCORD COALITION WARNS AGAINST SURPLUS “EXPECTATIONS” GAME

CONCORD COALITION URGES REALISTIC SURPLUS PROJECTIONS IN FY2001 BUDGET NEGOTIATIONS

IT’S OFFICIAL: 1999 BUDGET DEFICIT WAS $1 BILLION WITHOUT COUNTING THE SOCIAL SECURITY SURPLUS

CONCORD COALITION TO RUN AD IN SUNDAY’S NY TIMES URGING CONGRESS & THE PRESIDENT NOT TO SQUANDER THE SURPLUS

CONCORD COALITION OPPOSES TAKING AVIATION TRUST FUND “OFF BUDGET”

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