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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bipartisan legislation to create a commission charged with taming the $34 trillion U.S. national debt is set to advance this week in a House of Representatives panel, as lawmakers battle over federal spending. The House Budget Committee on Tuesday said it will hold a work session at 10 a.m. (1500 GMT) on Thursday to debate and potentially vote on the "Fiscal Commission Act of 2023," just weeks after Washington's total public debt breached the $34 trillion mark, putting it at more than 122% of GDP. Backers of the bill hope it could help make the national debt...

Six months after a U.S. foreign policy advocacy group urged a United Nations agency to stop cooperating with the Iranian regime, the agency’s members have appointed Tehran to head a body overseeing its budget and work program for the year ahead. Meeting in Vienna, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) last week named Iran to succeed Austria as chairman of its Program and Budget Committee. The step was taken “by acclamation,” meaning no member state objected or called for a vote. The post will be held by Ali-Asghar Soltanieh, Iran’s representative to international organizations based in Vienna. Those organizations...

Paul Ryan does a good job of offering a Republican tax reform response to Obama's jobs bill monster.

Republicans want to "end Medicare as we know it." Cue cat shriek! This "end Medicare as we know it" line -- and many like it ("end Medicaid as we know it," "end carbon-based life as we know it," etc.) -- is the lead-off talking point for the entire Democratic Party in response to Rep. Paul Ryan's just-released budget proposal, "The Path to Prosperity." Here's the thing: Of course he wants to end Medicare as we know it. You know why? Because the way we know it right now, the program is barreling toward insolvency. Personally, if I were on a...

Please listen to this You Tube video of the NJ State Senate Budget Chairman berating a post-abortive woman testifying at a Senate Budget Committee meeting at the NJ Statehouse regarding the continued funding of Planned Parenthood.  The funding bill has been vetoed by the governor every time a bill is submitted to him.Listen, on  media player, to the Actual Senate Hearing, slide the indicator to 41 minutes,  41:00 to hear the post-abortive woman and then NJ Right to Life with the truth about Planned Parenthood Monday, November 15, 2010 11:30 AM  Committee Room 4 You can also listen here to...