Sentence examples for deficit reduction framework from inspiring English sources

He was presenting a plan for a deficit reduction framework along with Alice M. Rivlin, the budget director under President Bill Clinton.

With their party leaders's encouragement, Senators Michael Bennet, Democrat of Colorado, and Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, have begun talks on legislative language to lock a deficit reduction framework into law.

"In our opinion, the longer-term deficit reduction framework adopted as part of the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA) could undermine the already fragile economic recovery and complicate aspects of state and local government fiscal management," Gabriel Petek, an S&P analyst, said in a statement.

Republicans, and some senior Democrats, had been gravitating to a deficit-reduction framework that relied heavily on tax changes that lowered rates across the board to bring along both parties.

If he gets another four years in the White House, he already has plans to go right back on the campaign trail to build support for his deficit-reduction framework, Democrats say, and administration officials are debating whether Mr. Obama should make some concession to Republicans to spur negotiations.

Indeed, Mr. Obama's new tack in pressing the deficit-reduction framework and $447 billion jobs-creation plan that he wants — not trimmed to draw Republicans' votes — reflects the conclusion he has drawn from the past 10 months: Republicans will oppose almost anything he proposes, even tax cuts.

They've been bashing Van Hollen for his previous support of a deficit-reduction framework that included cuts to Social Security.

A pro-growth framework for deficit reduction must reverse these trends.

In April, he unveiled a framework for deficit reduction that he said would save $480 billion in Medicare and Medicaid by 2023.

Mr. Schumer said pointing out Mr. Ryan's support for Medicare Part D, an expensive entitlement program addition, and his vote against the Simpson-Bowles framework on deficit reduction are other good things to point out.

So far, negotiations about a go-big framework for deficit reduction have focused on cutting at least $4 trillion from the federal budget over the next decade, with the goal of stabilizing and then reducing the debt-to-G.D.P. ratio.