Congressman Peter Welch says pay-as-you-go is the rule in Vermont state government, and it ought to be in Washington as well.
Welch and a dozen other lawmakers were at the White House on Tuesday to join President Barack Obama in promoting legislation calling on the Congress to spend money only when it finds an equal amount to cut elsewhere in the federal budget.
Republicans aren’t buying it.
House Republican Leader John Boehner calls the pay-as-you go legislation "a thinly veiled excuse for Democrats to raise taxes in order to bankroll more wasteful government spending."