David Thomas: “I offer to the Senate a sense-of-the- Senate resolution which states that we would have biennial budgeting. I make this…”

“I offer to the Senate a sense-of-the- Senate resolution which states that we would have biennial budgeting. I make this recommendation for several reasons. The primary factor is my personal experience with biennial budgeting. I come from the Wyoming legislature where we employ a 2-year budget cycle. It works very well. It seems to me that we ought to bring that Western wisdom inside the beltway. I know it has been considered before, but obviously Congress has not enacted the concept. I want to take just a moment to recognize the chairman of the Budget Committee, Senator Domenici, who has been a real leader on this issue for a number of years. In fact, he and Majority Leader Bob Dole joined me when I recently introduced a bill, S. 1434, that would create a biennial budget process. Obviously, there are some great benefits from biennial budgeting. One of them is being demonstrated here today. This Congress we have spent most of our time working on the budget. I am not sure what the numbers are, but if you looked at last year, I suspect that we will have spent fully two-thirds of the year in this place talking about the budget.…”