Antispending

With antiwar and antispending impulses sweeping both Capitol Hill and the electorate, the president finds himself under attack from both parties. ❋ Siobhan Hughes (2011)

Henninger: Paul, the antispending mania we talked about earlier? ❋ Unknown (2011)

Conservative Republicans in the House plan to urge their colleagues to rally behind a new manifesto that mixes antispending initiatives and tighter restrictions on government benefits as the party seeks a fresh message after a string of election defeats. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"It has been a favor factory for years, and now it is going to become a slaughterhouse," said Representative Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican and longtime antagonist of the Appropriations Committee who on Monday was endorsed by Mr. Boehner to be one of several antispending conservatives to be seated on the panel. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

It is always possible that this is right for the moment, for the new antispending era. ❋ Peggy Noonan (2010)

One solution is for an antispending upheaval, as Mr. Malpass suggests is needed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

With the antispending mood building in Washington, governors say they are increasingly skeptical that such an extension, needed to prop up the program starting next year, will come. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This would include removing Members from subcommittees on which they are unable, for home state political reasons, to cast difficult antispending votes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But in this election year, with Republicans out to show their antispending credentials, things are different. ❋ Michael Winship (2010)

"I think there is a real antispending mood right now in the country that makes ideas that might have seemed out of the mainstream a few years ago more acceptable," he said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the same way, today's antitax, antispending movements aren't the problem, it's the dangerous misconceptions they spread about the government response to the financial crisis. ❋ Unknown (2009)