Paul Ryan: “I just want to comment on a couple other aspects of this amendment that I think are very important. This amendment…”

“I just want to comment on a couple other aspects of this amendment that I think are very important. This amendment really dovetails well with another amendment that is coming, which is breaking it into five simple categories so that we do not have these stalemates we have every year in Congress between the other Chamber and the White House. What we want to do is make the budget amendment easier to achieve in the beginning of the process. Also what this does is it has emergency spending protection so that we save for emergencies ahead of time, so that we have a rainy day fund to prepare for these kinds of emergencies. We also clean up the definition of emergencies in this amendment. Far too often in this body, we designate things that really do not pass the smell test as to what are emergencies. We want to have real emergencies being funded under the emergency spending reserve fund, not nonemergencies. That is why we think we need to clean up that rule that allows Congress to designate things like a summit house on top of Pikes Peak an emergency. So this bill makes it easier to get a budget agreement, cleans up our emergency spending designation and helps us set money aside so we can prepare for these inevitable emergencies that occur every year Congress spends this money.”