{"id":8594,"date":"2011-02-08T14:01:19","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T19:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8594"},"modified":"2011-02-08T14:48:33","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T19:48:33","slug":"a-reason-for-pride-in-the-republican-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8594\/a-reason-for-pride-in-the-republican-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reason for Pride in the Republican Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you need any proof that the new generation of Republicans in Congress are breaking from the spendthrift ways of their forebears, look no further than this terrific idea, <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2011\/02\/07\/house-conservatives-to-pitch-new-committee-that-exists-only-to-cut-spending\/\" target=\"_blank\">as reported by our friends at the Daily Caller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With the 112th Congress in\u00a0full swing, some members of the House\u2019s conservative Republican Study Committee are making a renewed effort to establish a committee whose only purpose is to find programs to cut from the <span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #008000; position: static;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; position: relative;\">federal <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; position: relative;\">budget<\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The idea is a throwback to the now-defunct \u201cJoint Committee on Reduction of Non-essential Federal Expenditures,\u201d started by former Virginia Sen. Harry Byrd in 1941. The bi-cameral committee slashed an (inflation-adjusted) $38 billion from the federal budget in its first four years. The committee cut and eliminated programs enacted under President Franklin Roosevelt\u2019s \u201cNew Deal,\u201d but was dismantled in 1974.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This proposal has two salutary effects. First, it has the potential to move conservatives from the abstract to the specific when it comes to spending cuts. Second, it puts skin in the game for Democrats &#8212; if they oppose the proposal it will give the lie to all of the vague pieties about deficit reduction that they&#8217;ve harnessed over the last year. This is a fight the conservatives in Congress should relish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you need any proof that the new generation of Republicans in Congress are breaking from the spendthrift ways of their forebears, look no further than this terrific idea, as reported by our friends at the Daily Caller: With the 112th Congress in\u00a0full swing, some members of the House\u2019s conservative Republican Study Committee are making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81,1416,562,877,742,1716,2183],"class_list":["post-8594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-debt","tag-deficits","tag-economics","tag-government-spending","tag-limited-government","tag-republican-study-committee","tag-spending-cuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8596,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8594\/revisions\/8596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}