It aims to improve fiscal policy by establishing five principles of responsible fiscal management and by strengthening the reporting requirements. ... The President's Fiscal Year 2006 budget will increase the maximum Pell Grant award to $4,150 this year and $4,550 over five years to help more students. ... There are a few policy recommendations that may help Americans as they reach the age of retirement. ... Third, make America less dependant on foreign sources of energy through a comprehensive national energy policy. ... The campaign for American Manufacturing sponsors events that spotl...

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Instead, they produced a fiscal budget that passed both houses of Congress, only to be stalemated by a stubborn Democratic President Clinton. ... As of current fiscal years budget, the United States government spends $1.64 trillion yearly. $500 billion of that, or 1/3 of the total, is for discretionary spending (Rau M-1). ... Agricultural policies were also reformed and embedded into budget-reconciliation bills (Hosansky 3730). ... Under Federal law, the President is required to submit budget requests in 2 forms: Budget Authority (BA), the amount of new federal commitments fo...

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This ignorance even extends to politicians, Senator Tom Daschle is quoted as saying that, "Through a combination of wrongheaded fiscal policy and tentative economic leadership, we have now suffered one of the most dramatic fiscal turnarounds in American history" (G.O.P.). ...

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They also sought the establishment of cooperatives to replace the traditional wage system and help bring into check the excesses of capitalism, equal pay for equal work, government ownership of telegraph facilities and the railroads, a public land policy designed to aid settlers and not speculators, and a graduated income tax. ... Beyond that, the Knights suffered from fiscal mismanagement and internal divisions, especially the longstanding strife between the skilled and unskilled worker members. ...

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