Barney Frank: “The fact is this amendment reduces budget authority. It does not squirrel it away, it does not put it anywhere else, it…”

“The fact is this amendment reduces budget authority. It does not squirrel it away, it does not put it anywhere else, it reduces budget authority by $2.4 billion. That is $2.4 billion less than would be available for the Appropriations Committee when they do it. The budget deals with outlays, but the appropriations process, which deals with budget authority, will receive $2.4 billion less. That is why both the National Taxpayers Union and Citizens Against Government Waste sided with me.”