Chris Van Hollen

May 15 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Representative Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat from Maryland, speaks about fiscal policy and his opposition to "across- the-board" spending cuts. Van Hollen also responds to questions from Judy Woodruff at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation's 2012 Fiscal Summit in Washington. (Source: Bloomberg)Read Full Story

–House Approves GOP Plan To Replace FY’13 Sequester –House Speaker Boehner Says He’s Concerned About End of Year Talks –Senate Majority Leader Says Sequestration Fix Must Include Revenues By John Shaw WASHINGTON (MNI) – In an apparent attempt to begin to frame the end of the year fiscal debate, House Republican leaders won passage this week of a plan to replace about $100 billion in across-the-board spending cuts in the 2013 fiscal year with a package of more than $300 billion in ten year...Read Full Story

–House GOP Plan Replaces Sequestration With $300 Billion In Cuts –House Budget Chief Ryan: ‘We Need to Get Out of This Debt Crisis’ –Rep Van Hollen: GOP Plan Is ‘Lopsided,’ Need ‘Responsible Alternative’ By John Shaw WASHINGTON (MNI) – The House approved Thursday a Republican plan to replace about $100 billion in across-the-board spending cuts in the 2013 fiscal year with a package of more than $300 billion in 10-year spending savings. The House approved the package on a mostly party line...Read Full Story

–House GOP Proposes $300 Billion in Cuts for FY 2013 –Senate Seeks To Pass Reauthorization of Export-Import Bank By John Shaw WASHINGTON (MNI) – The House is likely to approve Thursday a Republican plan to replace about $100 billion in across-the-board spending cuts in the 2013 fiscal year with a package of more than $300 billion in 10-year spending savings. The plan likely will pass on a party line vote. It was crafted by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and was approved by the...Read Full Story

March 20 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Representative Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat from Maryland, talks about a House Republican plan to overhaul the U.S. tax code as part of their 2013 budget proposal. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, is scheduled to release the budget proposal today. He speaks with Betty Liu on Bloomberg Television's "In the Loop." (Source: Bloomberg)Read Full Story

Super Committee: Who are these guys? They are the "super committee" -- and they have a lot of work to do. Almost all men -- they are the 12-member panel charged with finding an additional $1.5 trillion in debt savings over a ten-year period. It will be tough work and will likely require political sacrifice on issues like taxes and entitlements if meaningful progress is to be made toward stabilizing the national debt. On Thursday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi weighed in with her...Read Full Story

Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) said Wednesday that Democrats “had the momentum” going into the 2012 elections in November. “People absolutely do have buyer’s remorse,” he said on MSNBC. “They did not know what they were getting themselves into with this tea party dominated House, which has focused on providing tax breaks to special interests and trying to help millionaires at the expense of everyone and everything else.” “It is very clear that the House Republican priorities are way out of...Read Full Story

–House Budget Panel Ponders Ways To Avert Across-the Board Spend Cuts –Congressional Dems, GOP Battle Over Student Loan Extension –Fed Chief Bernanke Warns That Fed Is Unable To Cushion ‘Fiscal Cliff’ By John Shaw WASHINGTON (MNI) – Congress showed again this week, in case anyone doubted that it was so, that it is fully capable of fighting simultaneously over both large and deeply consequential matters and small and relatively trivial matters. And while these fiscal fights were taking...Read Full Story

–Reps. Ryan, Van Hollen Say Hill Should Act To Replace Sequestration –House Budget Committee Chairman Ryan Says He’s Proposed $110B in Cuts –Rep. Van Hollen: Must Take ‘Balanced Approach’ To Fixing Sequestration By John Shaw WASHINGTON (MNI) – House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and Rep. Chris Van Hollen, the ranking Democrat on the committee, agreed Wednesday that Congress should pass legislation to prevent across-the board spending cuts from being implemented next year, but they...Read Full Story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Whether the special "super committee" of Congress will succeed in its mission to slash U.S. deficits is up in the air, a panel member said on Friday, as some lawmakers tried to fence off large budget items like defense.Representative Chris Van Hollen, a Democratic member of the special panel, said he was "absolutely convinced" the six Democrats and six Republicans would try hard to reach agreement on a plan by its November 23 deadline. The panel has been asked to find...Read Full Story