BUDGET BULLETIN: FY 2017 Continuing Resolution
WASHINGTON, DC – The Senate Budget Committee today released its October 20, 2016, Budget Bulletin focused on the FY 2017 Continuing Resolution. 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. This Bulletin contains an in-depth look at […]
New GAO Report Shows Feds Spend $1.5 Billion Annually on PR Activities
WASHINGTON D.C. – The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), the non-partisan government watchdog agency, today released a report, requested by Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY), showing that the federal government spends $1.5 billion annually on public relations activities. The report details how federal agencies spend about $1 billion annually on public relations/advertising contracts […]
GAO Rules Obamacare Reinsurance Unlawfully Diverting Billions From Taxpayers
WASHINGTON, DC – A group of bicameral Republican health care leaders are pointing to a new legal opinion issued on Obamacare’s controversial reinsurance program. The leaders urged the Comptroller General of the United States this spring to publish a legal opinion on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) decision to ignore federal law, […]
Enzi Calls for Bipartisan Budget Process Reform
WASHINGTON D.C. – Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi’s (R-WY) called for bipartisan solutions to fix America’s broken budget process today during a forum focused on budget process reform. Earlier this year, Chairman Enzi proposed implementing new rules to make it easier for Congress to consider and pass its annual budget and appropriations measures, and […]
Enzi: CBO Must Continue to Provide Objective and Insightful Information to Congress
WASHINGTON D.C. – Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, today during an oversight hearing of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), said that it was crucial for CBO to provide objective and insightful information to Congress, while also increasing transparency of the agency’s analysis and operations. “CBO recently released its latest round […]
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Budget Chairmen: Dept. of Ed’s Rule Could Cost Taxpayers Billions
WASHINGTON D.C. – Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) and House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-GA) have asked the Department of Education for additional information concerning a new proposal by the department that could add as much as $41 billion to the cost of the federal student loan program over the next decade, […]
Enzi: Time to Unstick Washington’s Budget Gridlock
WASHINGTON D.C. – Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, today highlighted bipartisan, common sense solutions to fix America’s broken budget process that Enzi said will place the country on a better, more sustainable fiscal path. “America’s budget process is broken, and it is preventing Congress from tackling the pressing fiscal challenges […]
Kelsie Wendelberger Joins Budget Committee as Policy Assistant
WASHINGTON D.C. – Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) today announced the appointment of Kelsie Wendelberger as a new policy assistant, who will focus on special projects, foreign and defense economic policy, and budgetary rules and procedures. “We are pleased to welcome Kelsie to the Senate Budget Committee,” said Chairman Enzi. “Her work experience in both […]
Enzi: I want you to know what keeps me awake nights
VIDEO Washington, D.C. – As the nation continues to add to its $19 trillion debt, U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., says he can’t get to sleep at night over fearful thoughts about his grandkids and the bleak future for them because of the federal government’s overspending. “I hear them ask ‘You were there; why didn’t […]