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  • House Budget Committee Mark-Up: Reconciliation and Replacing the Sequester
    May 7, 2012 - Welcome to today’s mark-up. Today, this Committee meets to advance sensible spending restraints and to reprioritize savings called for under the Budget Control Act. Last year, as we were coming up on the debt ceiling, the Obama administration asked Congress to rubber-stamp a blank-check increase in ... More
  • Chairman Ryan Praises Passage of Bipartisan Bill to Control Wasteful Spending
    February 8, 2012 - WASHINGTON – Earlier today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 3521, The Expedited Legislative Line-Item Veto and Rescissions Act. This bipartisan reform was co-authored by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Ranking Member Chris Van Hollen (D-MD). H.R. 3521 – the fourth ... More
  • Chairman Ryan Applauds Passage of the Budget and Accounting Transparency Act
    February 7, 2012 - WASHINGTON – Earlier today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 3581, the Budget and Accounting Transparency Act. Authored by Congressman Scott Garrett (R-NJ), the common-sense reform forces the federal government to honestly and transparently account for taxpayer liabilities. Following pa... More
  • Chairman Ryan Applauds Passage of the Baseline Reform Act
    February 3, 2012 - WASHINGTON – This morning, a bipartisan majority in the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 3578, the Baseline Reform Act. Written by Congressman Rob Woodall (R-GA), the Baseline Reform Act removes the automatic increase in the discretionary spending baseline used by Congress and the Administr... More
  • Chairman Ryan Praises Passage of the Pro-Growth Budgeting Act
    February 2, 2012 - WASHINGTON – Earlier today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 3582, the Pro-Growth Budgeting Act. Authored by Congressman Tom Price (R-GA), the Pro-Growth Budgeting Act requires the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to provide lawmakers with a macroeconomic analysis of the economic impac... More
  • House Budget Committee Advances Common-Sense Budget Process Reforms
    January 24, 2012 - WASHINGTON – The House Budget Committee advanced three legislative reforms today to address the broken budget process. The reforms focused on bringing greater accountability and transparency, and stronger protections for hardworking Americans’ tax dollars. While the House Budget Committee works to a... More
  • Mark-Up for Budget Process Reform Legislation
    January 24, 2012 - The purpose of today’s meeting is to mark up legislation aimed at reforming the federal budget process. There is no question that the budget process is broken. Washington stumbles from budget crisis to budget crisis, with little to no oversight of how government spends hardworking taxpayers’ money. ... More
  • Mark-up for the Expedited Line-Item Veto and Rescissions Act of 2011
    December 15, 2011 - The purpose of today’s meeting is to mark up the Expedited Line-Item Veto and Rescissions Act of 2011. I am proud to be here today marking up legislation that was written in a bipartisan way with my counterpart on this committee, the Ranking Member, Chris Van Hollen. Chris, I want to thank you and y... More