Posted: March 2nd 2011
From Argus Leader
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., today plans to reintroduce budget reform legislation.
In a news release, Thune’s office said the bill would transform Congress’ budget process through common sense reforms and reduce the growth of discretionary spending. Sens. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., Mark Kirk, R-Ill., and Mike Johanns, R-Neb., are original cosponsors of the budget reform bill.
Thune is a member of the Senate Budget Committee.
“The federal government’s budgeting process is broken and continues to contribute to our nation’s record debt and deficits,” Thune said. “If American families and small businesses operated their budgets as irresponsibly as Washington does, they would go bankrupt."
“My bill would improve transparency and efficiency in the federal budgeting process by creating a legislative line-item veto, establishing a biennial budget timeline, preventing the abuse of emergency spending designations, enacting real pay-go rules, and creating a permanent joint committee of Congress focused solely on passing spending cuts, among other reforms.”
