By Colby Itkowitz

The Morning Call

July 30, 2011

Arizona Republican freshman U.S. Rep. David Schweikert, also a fiscal conservative, said when he's looking for bills to sponsor in the House, he looks to see what Toomey has attached his name to first. Schweikert introduced the companion measure to Toomey's debt-related bill.

"He gets credit for being the truth-teller on how the mechanics really work…the debate has moved very far his way," Schweikert said.

Not everyone thinks that's a good thing. Steve Bell, a former Budget Committee Republican staffer who helped write four budgets during the Reagan administration, and now serves as an economic director at the Bipartisan Policy Center, said Toomey's ideas are "dangerous" because the economy is still too fragile to be taking any gambles.

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