But this is truly a case in which the remedy is worse than the disease.
I want to give my friend and my colleague Congressman Norman Dicks a lot of credit.
the annual appropriations process is broken.
There is nothing in a biennial budget that prevents supplemental or budget correction bills.
The problem was that Chairman Dicks had a good defense bill, but couldn't get it on the floor.
By being able to budget for at least 2 years, you can plan ahead a little better.
In order to get the proper oversight, you have got to have time.
I think it has created sound fiscal policy in Ohio, and it has worked for decades.
I do think that biennial budgeting does lead to business savvy.
I don't think that we could make it much worse than it is today.
I see nothing in the biennial budgeting proposal that would really change the way appropriations is working except just to cut the process i...
Legally no direct transfer of powers would occur. Practically and politically, I believe that relaxing on that second year of scrutiny and o...
It is a scandal that hundreds of programs are unauthorized.
I am not a huge fan of the budget process, and I think in many ways it does not serve us well.
I think we all agree that the system needs to be improved.
I have a deep respect for my good friend Chairman Dreier, whose concern for the well being of our institution is as great and as genuine as ...
So I urge colleagues to reject the siren song of biennial budgeting, to redouble our efforts to address the underlying causes of our long-te...
If we had a 2-year process, I could spend a whole year doing oversight.
