“I think that we’ve done a great job in providing these needs and at the same time getting at the right path to having a balanced budget in five years,” (D-AR U.S. Rep. Marion) Berry said (link dead) in a conference call with news reporters.

Representiative John Campbell (R-CA), chairman of the Budget and Spending Task Force of the Republican Study Committee, gives us the details on his Green Eye Shade blog: sunsetting in 2010 the tax cuts which ballooned the economy and tax receipts, $42.5 billion in non-defense spending, raiding Social Security, no reforms for entitlements or Alternative Minimum Tax, and no accountability standards. In another post Campbell reports that the deadline for submitting earmarks has been extended two weeks, and the limit of earmarks per member has been removed.

Ouch.