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House Budget Committee member day: GOP members press fiscal commission, CBO transparency and several debt-cutting plans
Summary
Republican members used a House Budget Committee member-day hearing to urge a range of fiscal reforms — including a bipartisan fiscal commission, tougher CBO transparency and reporting rules, the USA Act to sunset unauthorized programs, and proposals to address Social Security solvency.
House Republicans pressed a broad agenda of budget-process reforms and debt-reduction proposals during a member-day hearing of the House Budget Committee.
Chairman Jody Arrington framed the session as a response to a broken budget process, saying, “we simply do not have a healthy functioning, budget process,” and urging reforms including an external audit of the Congressional Budget Office, clearer deficit targets and a fiscal commission to produce actionable recommendations.
Members used their three-minute slots to outline competing tools for restoring fiscal discipline. Rep. Kat…
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