2015 Budget Year In Review
Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said today that with the Senate under new Republican management, the Budget Committee has played an important role by working to pass the first ten-year balanced budget since 2001 and approving the repeal of Obamacare through the budget reconciliation process.
Enzi: We Must Understand Economic Impact Of America’s Regulations
During a hearing today on regulatory budgeting, Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said it was vital to understand the cumulative costs and impact of regulations on the economy imposed by federal agencies through new rules.
Senate Approves Far-Reaching Obamacare Repeal
The United States Senate today passed the most comprehensive and far-reaching repeal of Obamacare possible. The House of Representatives is expected take up and pass the Senate approved version shortly, which would send repeal legislation to the President for the first time in his tenure.
Chairman Enzi: From Obamacare’s Broken Promises to Better Care
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) today noted that Americans are ready to move past Obamacare’s broken promises to better health care as the U.S. Senate opened debate on repealing the president’s health care law as part of the budget reconciliation process.
Chairman Enzi: Two-Year Budgets Will Make Spending Process More Transparent
During a second Senate Budget Committee hearing on fixing America’s broken budget process, Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) today said that moving the nation to a biennial budget would create more stability and predictability for agencies as well as state and local governments. Most importantly, he said, it will increase the transparency of the federal spending process and help make government more accountable.
Budget Committee to Hold Nov.4 Hearing on Biennial Budgeting
Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, will hold a hearing Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 10:30am on a biennial approach to better budgeting. Testifying will be Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Senator Thomas Carper (D-DE), Mr. William G. Batchelder, the former Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives and Mr. Robert L. Bixby, Executive Director of the Concord Coalition.
CBO Report Shows Senate Committees Have Authorized $2.2 Billion Less Than Budgeted
At the request of Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY), the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report for October 2015 that tracks the budgetary impact of enacted legislation against the FY 2015 deemed budget resolution and the FY 2016 balanced budget resolution approved by Congress earlier this year. The report shows that over the FY 2016-2025 period, which is the entire period covered by the budget, Senate authorizing committees have spent $2.2 billion less than the budget resolution outlined.
BUDGET BULLETIN: How Back-End Spending Impacts the Budget
The Senate Budget Committee today released its October 27, 2015, issue of the Budget Bulletin focused on back-end spending and its impacts on the federal budget. The Budget Bulletin provides regular expert articles by Senate Budget Committee analysts on the issues before Congress relating to the budget, deficits, debt, and the economy.
Chairman Enzi: Help the economy by stopping onslaught of regulations
It is often said that there are two constants in life – death and taxes, but according to U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., it appears there is one more issue that Americans can’t seem to escape from– regulations.
Enzi: Healthy Budget Process Strengthens Democracy
Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, today held a hearing on the need to take action on reforming the federal budget process. Testifying were Michael Peterson, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation and Dr. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, President of the American Action Forum and former director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).