Chairman’s News Articles
Mike Enzi has been waiting for this day. The U.S. Senator from Gillette returned to Washington, D.C., on Sunday to begin his 20th year representing Wyoming. Only this time, the president-elect is Republican and his party — Republican — also enjoys the majority in the U.S. Senate and House. He’s ready to begin work on […]
Threatened federal government shutdowns. Spending bills that exceed limits negotiated by Congress. Concocted emergencies to justify loans. And no way for the public to follow the money. These are all dysfunctions of the current budgeting and spending process in Washington, U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi says. And the Republican, who leads the Senate Budget Committee, is […]
Congress’ frustrating budget stalemates and addiction to end-of-session continuing resolutions could be eliminated under a new set of reform proposals detailed on Monday by Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., chairman of the Budget Committee. An accountant who points proudly to firm spending decisions made by the legislature in Wyoming, Enzi has been holding hearings and rolling out budget […]
A bipartisan group that advocates changes in the budget process expressed support Thursday for several that were suggested by Senate Budget Chairman Michael B. Enzi. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget released a paper explaining why it backs Enzi’s proposals to end the vote-a-rama practice, set aside dedicated time to consider appropriations bills and make the Senate […]
Although overshadowed by the presidential campaign, a serious move is underway in Congress to try to end the dysfunction around the budget process and set up new fiscal commissions to reduce the debt. The effort, led by Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi and bipartisan interlocutors, is not an attempt to reach a grand bargain […]
A set of budget reform ideas introduced Wednesday would create special fiscal commissions to meet debt targets, move Congress to biennial spending bills and end the annual Senate spectacle known as the "vote-a-rama," among other major changes.
Eliminating the vote-a-rama, making it tougher to waive budget points of order and creating enforceable, long-term fiscal targets are among ideas for overhauling the budget process that Senate Budget Chairman Michael B. Enzi unveiled Wednesday.
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi highlghts bipartisan solutions to fix America's broken budget process and breakthrough Washignton's budget gridlock.
The House and Senate Budget committees are trying to rev up their budget reform engines this week, with a House hearing and a private Senate meeting on the matter.
Former Senate Budget Committee chairmen Judd Gregg and Kent Conrad will meet with current committee members on Wednesday to talk about overhauling the budget process.
The Senate’s seeming inability to pass a budget is not due to party conflicts but the budget process itself, two top senators said during a panel discussion at the Peterson Foundation 2016 Fiscal Summit in Washington, D.C. Wednesday.
Probably the worst kept secret in Washington is that America’s budget process is broken
Chairman Enzi Vows a Bipartisan Budget Process Overhaul
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi, for one, is fed up. Looking to spotlight the insanity, he is holding a series of hearings this month exploring “How to fix the broken budget process.”
The recent spending and debt deal clearly illustrates that the federal budget process is in serious need of reform. America’s current budget challenges are directly related to this breakdown and fixing it can put the country on a more responsible spending path going forward.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau told the chairmen of two Senate financial committees it fixed an “isolated coding error” in its retirement planning calculator, but those senators said many questions remain unanswered.
The Government Accountability Office is launching an investigation to shed a light on a sector of federal agency spending long kept in the shadows: advertising.
Meet your unauthorized government.
Amazingly, more than $300 billion of Washington programs are running on autopilot. Why is Congress ignoring its key oversight tool?
The federal government is on pace to spend around $310 billion in 2016 on programs that have expired, according to a new analysis by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
Republican senators want answers on why a retirement calculator created by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is providing flawed results.
Two top Senate Republicans are asking a consumer protection agency why an online retirement planning tool offers incorrect guidance to users.
The recent spending and debt deal clearly illustrates that the federal budget process is in serious need of reform. America’s current budget challenges are directly related to this breakdown and fixing it can put the country on a more responsible spending path going forward.
Senate Republicans are rolling out a new way to clarify what regulation authority a law gives to federal agencies, suggesting it could help curb incorrect interpretations by the Obama administration.
Congress recently approved its first balanced 10-year budget since 2001, which represented an important step toward putting our country on not just another course, but a better course. This balanced budget represents a “lean in” moment for a Congress under new management, to confront rapidly growing deficits borne from our government’s habitual overspending, which plagues America and its taxpayers.
This balanced budget represents a Congress under new management, confronting rapidly growing deficits borne from our government’s habitual overspending, which plagues America and its taxpayers.
Last week, Congress began the monumental task of confronting our nation’s chronic overspending and exploding debt, which threaten each and every American. Make no mistake, our fiscal outlook is grim and has been ignored for far too long. But we have a profound moral responsibility to help taxpayers see the true picture of our country’s […]