Cliff Stearns: “I support the biennial budget process. That is that we should have…”

On the recordFebruary 2, 2000

I support the biennial budget process. That is that we should have: The budget process every 2 years and not every year. I have a bill, H.R. 493, to provide such a process. Senator Domenici, in the Senate, has a companion bill. Why is this an improvement over the current process? I believe that by adopting such a measure we would remove all this political in-fighting partisanship every year, plus all the pork barreling that occurs so often. What I would like to see is that in the first session we pass the first 13 appropriations bills, then in the second session we do oversight to find out what has happened with all this legislation that we passed. Is it working? The second session could also be reserved for looking at the emergency spending. I think the current process is very partisan and we should remove it. So please support H.R. 493, the biennial budget process.

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Cliff Stearns

Florida

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Advocating for a biennial budget process during a House floor speech.

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Cliff Stearns: “I support the biennial budget process. That is that we should have: The budget process every 2 years and not every year.…”

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