Aug 2, 2011 ... The debt ceiling deal hammered out by President Barack Obama and  congressional leaders and passed in the House on Monday afternoon makes  deep, painful ... The president has boasted that his deal with the GOP will usher  in an era featuring “the lowest level of annual domestic spending since Dwight ...
Jun 4, 2012 ... Measured as a percentage of the nation's economic production, it reached the  highest level since World War II in fiscal 2009, and has declined only slightly  since. And there's ... 20, 2009. President Bush signed the massive spending bill  under which the government was operating when Obama took office.
Jul 31, 2011 ... The result would be the lowest level of annual domestic spending since Dwight  Eisenhower was President — but at a level that still allows us to make .... That's  what a top White House official said about Senate Minority Leader Mitch  McConnell's claim that a bill to raise the debt ceiling is “very close.” Senior ...
Aug 5, 2011 ... Of all the ways President Barack Obama tried to rationalize his surrender to the  Republicans, none was more infuriating than when he said the deficit deal would  lead to the “lowest level of annual domestic spending since Dwight Eisenhower  was president.” Since Eisenhower was president? That was half ...
Aug 1, 2011 ... The first part of this agreement will cut about $1 trillion in spending over the next  10 years -- cuts that both parties had agreed to early on in this process. The result  would be the lowest level of annual domestic spending since Dwight Eisenhower  was President -- but at a level that still allows us to make ...
The debt ceiling deal will result in "the lowest level of annual domestic spending since Dwight Eisenhower was president."