1.4.1: Budget Leadership

Make the Budget Committees leadership committees.

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Make the Budget Committees leadership committees. The Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform explicitly advocated a legislative change providing that the budget committees include “House and Senate leaders and the chairs and ranking members of both the appropriations and revenue committees and other major authorizing committees.” This recommendation is aimed at making it more likely that the budget committees would be invested in fiscal goals that had been agreed to prior to the year’s budget process and would be committed to carrying out those goals in the subsequent legislation. Such a change might aid in the passage, content, and adherence to the budget resolution. In another memo we describe how the budget resolution can be reformulated to provide a multi-year framework based on established fiscal goals, such as stabilizing the debt.

Stakeholder(s):

• Congressional Budget Committees


• Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform

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