Today Congressman Mike Ross (D-Ark.), Blue Dog Co-Chair, issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s remarks on fiscal responsibility.

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Today, Congressman and Blue Dog Co-Chair Heath Shuler (D-NC) will offer the Blue Dog Benchmarks for Fiscal Reform as an amendment to Chairman Paul Ryan’s fiscal year 2012 budget proposal. The benchmarks, released last week by members of the Coalition, are an aggressive set of targets for long-term fiscal reform and deficit reduction that includes cutting the deficit by $4 trillion over the next 10 years, with the largest deficit cuts in history by 2014.

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Today members of the fiscally conservative Democratic Blue Dog Coalition announced the Blue Dog Benchmarks for Fiscal Reform – an aggressive set of targets for long-term fiscal reform and deficit reduction that includes cutting the deficit by $4 trillion over the next 10 years, with the largest deficit cuts in history by 2014. The Blue Dogs also advocated keeping all options on the table in an effort to bring Republicans and Democrats together for a responsible, bipartisan discussion about the long-term fiscal health of the country.

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Today, members of the fiscally conservative Democratic Blue Dog Coalition announced their support for the “Reduce Unnecessary Spending Act of 2011,” a measure introduced by House Budget Committee Ranking Member Chris Van Hollen that would require Congress and the President to work cooperatively to eliminate spending programs that are duplicative, inefficient and outdated.