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Outside View // 1 decade ago
Outside View: BMD base woes -- Part 2
Rep. John Spratt, D-S.C., the chairman of the Budget Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, has said the global ballistic missile threat has been decreasing during the last 20 years.
Top News // 1 decade ago
Spratt says budget is 'pay as you go'
Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt of South Carolina says the Democrat-led budget passed by the U.S. House this week "sticks to the rule of pay-as-you-go."
Top News // 1 decade ago
Major U.S. budget reform likely on hold
The U.S. Congress is looking into next year's federal budget but competing versions indicate any major changes will be left to a new president and Congress.
Top News // 1 decade ago
Democrats approve U.S. budget plan
Democrats in the U.S. Congress have reached agreement on a $2.9 trillion U.S. budget plan for 2008 that is expected to pass and be sent to the White House.
Top News // 1 decade ago
Dems pledge to scrutinize Iraq war costs
Democrats plan to assert more control over Iraq war costs when they take charge of Congress, the incoming budget committee chairmen say.
Top News // 1 decade ago
Republicans irked by Democratic ad
U.S. Republican lawmakers reportedly are irate over a Democratic campaign ad showing footage of flag-draped coffins of U.S. troops killed in Iraq.
Top News // 1 decade ago
CBO predicts deficit of at least $337B
The Congressional Budget Office says the federal budget deficit will total $337 billion in 2006.
Top News // 1 decade ago
U.S.Rep. Spratt: Iraq costs underestimated
Rep. John Spratt, D-S.C., released a report Tuesday saying the cost of the U.S. military operations in Iraq might climb to $646 billion.
Top News // 1 decade ago
House Democrats reappoint leaders
U.S. House Democrats re-elected their leadership Wednesday, but the question of who will lead the election-oversight position in their caucus remains open.
Business News // 1 decade ago
U.S. debt ceiling reached
The U.S. Treasury announced Thursday the statutory debt ceiling of $7.4 trillion has been reached.


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The budget the Democrats passed this week charts a new course

Spratt says budget is 'pay as you go' Jun 07, 2008

The President says his budget ... will lead to the deficit being cut in half in four years

U.S.Rep. Spratt: Iraq costs underestimated Feb 15, 2005

Congressional Republicans are in disarray and disagreement about the size of a tax cut. But most have begun to recognize that cutting taxes by an additional $1.6 trillion when the budget already is in substantial deficit causes either still bigger deficits or harmful cuts to services

Bush: $550B tax cut would enliven economy Apr 15, 2003

The president now says that seniors who stay in the traditional Medicare program can get prescription drugs under his proposal, but the main thing he is giving them is a prescription drug discount card

Bush rolls out Medicare reform framework Mar 04, 2003

He needs to ask himself if he wants to see two terms and retire and have to say to the baby boomers, 'Sorry, we did not do a thing to plan for your retirement,

House Democrats hammer on budget Jan 10, 2002

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John McKee Spratt, Jr. (born November 1, 1942) is the former U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 5th congressional district, serving from 1983 until 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Spratt was the dean of the South Carolina congressional delegation, chairman of the U.S. House Committee on the Budget, and the second ranking Democrat on the U.S. House Committee on Armed Services, where he served on three subcommittees: Oversight and Investigations, Strategic Forces, and Air and Land Forces. In addition to his committee work, he co-chaired the Textile Caucus, the Bearing Caucus, and the Nuclear Energy Caucus. The 5th Congressional District covers all or part of 14 counties in north-central South Carolina. The largest cities are Rock Hill and Sumter. On November 2nd, 2010, he lost to Republican challenger Mick Mulvaney.

Spratt was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and raised in York, South Carolina, where he still resides. He is the son of John McKee Spratt, Sr. and Jane Love Bratton. His father founded the Bank of Fort Mill and the York law firm where Spratt would eventually practice. Spratt's only sibling is Jane Bratton Spratt McColl, wife of Hugh McColl, former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bank of America Corporation who retired in 2001.

After graduating from York High School, he earned a BA degree in history from Davidson College in 1964. He served as student body president at both schools. Spratt then earned an MA degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University (Corpus Christi College) in 1966 while studying on a Marshall Scholarship, and an LLB degree from Yale Law School in 1969.

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