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US House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government’s Hearing on “Examining Proposed Constitutional Amendments”
Members want change. House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington and Ranking Member Brendan Boyle recently announced a bipartisan budget process reform effort.
Congress doesn’t have to balance the federal budget, nor does it try. It doesn’t pursue debt-to-GDP targets, deficit targets, or any other comprehensive budget targets.
Congress could, however, borrow a best practice from the states: line-item budgets.
Congress needs a new approach to automatic budget enforcement to replace the failed model that relies on across-the-board cuts. Instead, enforcement should help Congress budget responsibly in the first place by setting up automatic consequences that make small, repeatable, surgical adjustments to various federal programs.
Today, Americans for Prosperity (AFP) introduced the Agenda to End Budget Brinkmanship, a policy framework for congressional lawmakers to end the budget battles and fix the broken process causing Washington’s budget dysfunction.
Better Budgeting Can Expand the Space for Tax Policy Reform Committee on Appropriations, Pennsylvania House of Representatives Chairman Grove, members of the committee: Thank you for the invitation to share views on tax reform. I am Kurt Couchman, the senior fellow in fiscal policy at Americans for Prosperity. I am excited to be here, since […]
