May 27 2011
Meanwhile, a range of policy groups offered ideas and solutions to reduce health care spending.
NPR: After Senate's Medicare Vote, Ryan Remains Unbowed
House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan was unbowed Thursday after the expected, but nonetheless stinging, rejection of his budget and Medicare proposal by the Senate. Ryan told NPR reporters he would do it all over again. He continued to call for Congress to do something urgent about the public debt — and continued to reject any notion of tax increases to help balance the ledger (Seabrook, 5/26).
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