This responsibility to our constituents is why I suggest adopting legislation requiring a pay cut should Congress fail to pass a budget that balances within 10 years.
Balancing the budget should be the number one priority of every Congress, especially the 113th.
Failing to act to reform and therefore save these entitlement programs is irresponsible.
One solution I have advocated for would be, over time gradually increasing the retirement age for both Social Security and Medicare to 72.
I advocate we adopt a zero-based budgeting process.
I thank you for your time and I hope that we will begin to look at some radical ways to change the direction of our country.
Like this little family that is living beyond their means, we are going to have to get America back living within our means.
I urge the committee to pass H.R. 239, the ZERO Act, to smoke out waste in the Federal agencies.
I have introduced H.R. 239, the Zero-Based Budgeting Ensures Responsible Oversight, or ZERO, Act...
Baseline budgeting is one of the most sinister ways that politicians claim to cut spending when they are actually increasing spending.
Removing the baseline from agency and department budgets and implementing zero-based budgeting instead would get rid of the automatic spendi...