WASHINGTON, DC – U.S Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said today, during the joint Senate-House FY 2016 Budget Conference, that passing a balanced budget will help restore the trust of hardworking taxpayers. “Passing a balanced budget is about restoring the trust of the American people, because the federal government’s chronic […]
WASHINGTON, DC – Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) and House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-GA) today announced that conferees for the Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Conference will meet on Monday, April 20, 2015 at 3:00pm in Room 106 – Dirksen Senate Office Building. WHO: Senate-House Budget Conferees WHAT: Fiscal Year 2016 […]
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement after Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced the conferees for the Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Conference: “Last month, the Senate Budget Committee took an important first step in helping to change the way we do business here […]
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee and House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price, M.D. (GA-06) met to discuss the Fiscal Year 2016 budget. After the meeting, Chairman Enzi and Chairman Price issued the following joint statement: “Republicans are committed to creating a balanced budget that will […]
WASHINGTON, DC – The United States Senate today approved a balanced budget resolution for fiscal year 2016, which will boost the nation’s economic growth by more than $500 billion over the next ten years, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). If the Senate adds recommended tax and regulatory reforms to these spending reductions, […]
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, released the following statement today as the United States Senate began debate on the balanced budget resolution: “Last week, the Senate Budget Committee took an important first step in helping to change the way we do business here in Washington – […]
‘Republicans have put forward a responsible plan that balances the budget in ten years with no new tax hikes, that protects our most vulnerable citizens, it strengthens our national defense, and it improves economic growth and opportunity for hardworking families.’ WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the Weekly Republican Address, Senator Mike Enzi of Wyoming, chairman of […]
WASHINGTON, DC – The United States Senate Budget Committee, chaired by Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), today approved a plan that would balance the nation’s budget in 10 years with no tax hikes, protect our most vulnerable citizens, strengthen the national defense, and boost economic growth and opportunity for hardworking families. The full Senate will consider […]
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, today released the following statement after he introduced the Senate Budget Resolution for Fiscal Year 2016, which balances the budget in ten years with no tax hikes, protects the nation’s most vulnerable citizens, strengthens America’s national defense, and improves economic growth […]
***Media Advisory*** Chairman Enzi to Commence Senate Budget Markup on Wed. March 18 WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, will commence a markup of the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for FY 2016 on Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 2:30pm in room SD-608. WHAT: Full Committee Markup […]
WASHINGTON, DC – During a hearing today on the benefits of a balanced budget, U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said a balanced budget will help restore the trust of the American people because it will require Congress to actually set priorities and stick to them while evaluating and prioritizing […]
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, today applauded legislation introduced by Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) that would help eliminate waste in federal government spending. Senator Ayotte’s bill (S. 236) would save billions of taxpayer dollars by making it easier for Congress to eliminate duplicative and wasteful programs […]
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said during a hearing today that one way Congress could tackle America’s chronic overspending problem is by rooting out needless duplicative spending and programs in the federal government. “Americans know that the government overspends too much, taxes too much, borrows […]
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, joined today with House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-GA) to announce the appointment of Dr. Keith Hall to serve as Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Hall’s term would end on January 3, 2019. “Dr. Hall has more than […]
Click here to watch Chairman Enzi’s opening statement. WASHINGTON, DC – During a hearing on the nation’s debt today, U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, noted that America’s current debt is the biggest our country has ever owed and endangers our government and hurts the nation’s economic potential. “If we don’t […]
U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, spoke this morning about the looming insolvency of the Social Security Disability Trust Fund. In his opening statement before the Senate Budget Committee, Enzi highlighted the need to modernize the Disability Insurance program in order to fiscally secure its long-term future for the nation. […]
Every year, Congress and the president enact dozens of laws increasing or decreasing spending on various entitlement spending programs. However, there has never been a single document listing the final cost of each new law. To get an honest accounting of these costs, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price, […]
U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, spoke this morning on how the president’s FY2016 budget proposal lacks needed fiscal reforms and only accelerates the nation’s plunge towards higher interest payments and more debt. In his opening statement before the Senate Budget Committee, Enzi also highlighted how we need to be […]
Today, the White House released President Obama’s budget request for Fiscal Year 2016 – a proposal that never balances and includes a $2.4 trillion spending increase, a $2.1 trillion tax increase and adds $8.5 trillion to the national debt. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) and House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price, M.D. (GA-06) […]
“Political differences shouldn’t prevent us from taking bold, decisive action to address America’s dire financial outlook. Republicans and Democrats agree that being $18 trillion in debt today and facing the prospect of spending more than $800 billion a year on interest payments alone does not lend itself to a prosperous future for our country. CBO’s […]
Washington, D.C. – The Congressional Budget Office is expecting our nation’s debt to grow by $9 trillion over the next decade. U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said this is a problem we can no longer run from, but one we must confront: “The past will catch up to us no matter how […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement today regarding committee plans for next year and his friend Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY): “My good friend Mike and I have been close since we both entered the Senate together 18 years ago. We will long remain good and […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement today as the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the population of Americans not in the labor force increased to more than 92.4 million last month: “While there was some modest improvement in this morning’s jobs report headline, millions […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, delivered the following keynote address today at the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation’s national budget conference. Sessions emphasized the need to balance the federal budget within 10 years, impose financial discipline on federal agencies, and improve economic conditions for American workers: “I would like […]
In advance of President Obama unveiling his FY 2015 budget earlier this year, senior White House staff signaled to the Washington Post that the plan would “call for an end to era of austerity.” This despite the fact that the nation has spent $21.1 trillion since 2009. Gross federal debt has increased by $7.23 trillion […]
“Three-fourths of Americans say we remain in a recession—and there are sound reasons for such personal beliefs. Declines in wages and the percentage of people actually working have been hammer blows to working families.” WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement today as the Bureau of […]
The great economic tragedy of our time is the erosion of the American middle class. Millions of Americans find themselves locked out of the American Dream. Their wages are either flat or falling, even as the price of energy and goods surges; the labor force is shrinking; and the government stimulus which was claimed to […]