According to Congressional Quarterly:
House Democratic leaders have offered to support stricter deficit control measures to gain the support of Blue Dog Democrats for a fiscal 2010 budget agreement hammered out late last night.
House-Senate conferees reached a deal late Monday on a final budget resolution that lacks the assurances sought by the conservative Blue Dog Democrats in the House that both chambers were on track to adopt statutory pay-as-you-go controls.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi , D-Calif., and Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer , D-Md., drafted a letter outlining their commitment to make sure that new entitlement spending or tax cuts that would increase the deficit are offset with spending cuts or tax hikes elsewhere.
And:
“We are in agreement with Blue Dogs that we are very serious about PAYGO,” Hoyer said.
But here is a question for you, Mr. Hoyer: Why aren’t you also subjecting the FY2010 budget and the spending increases it contains to PAYGO as your party promised it would?
Also, earlier this month I wrote about when deficits matter here.