Americans have a right to know that the money Washington takes from them is well spent.
In order to get the proper oversight, you have got to have time.
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.
I want to give my friend and my colleague Congressman Norman Dicks a lot of credit.
But this is truly a case in which the remedy is worse than the disease.
The founders didn't say you had to do it for 2 years, but they did say you can't do it for longer than 2 years.
If we had a 2-year process, I could spend a whole year doing oversight.
Circumstances, however, are very different.
So I urge colleagues to reject the siren song of biennial budgeting, to redouble our efforts to address the underlying c...
I have a deep respect for my good friend Chairman Dreier, whose concern for the well being of our institution is as grea...
I think we all agree that the system needs to be improved.
I am not a huge fan of the budget process, and I think in many ways it does not serve us well.
It is a scandal that hundreds of programs are unauthorized.
Legally no direct transfer of powers would occur. Practically and politically, I believe that relaxing on that second ye...
I see nothing in the biennial budgeting proposal that would really change the way appropriations is working except just ...
I don't think that we could make it much worse than it is today.
I do think that biennial budgeting does lead to business savvy.
