The Quest for Proven Solutions to Our Spending Woes (A Federal Commission Needs More Than Ribbons.)

Center for Fiscal Accountability ^ | 4/14/10 | CFA

[Andrea19]

...(Senator) Harry Byrd established in 1942, in effect a ‘Disappropriations Committee.’ I think every state should have a committee like that in both the House and Senate. And one of the commitments the Republicans ought to make is if they (become) a majority this year, they’ll establish a committee on reducing government. Which the Byrd Committee did, and it had a real impact on eliminating agencies...

[Andrea19]

Take a Senate-based commission, with powers of subpoena, in front of cameras, to grill government employees and contractors, on issues of waste and corruption. This idea has historical precedent as noted in the article.

[Natural Law]

We neede look no further that the methods used by President Warren G. Harding when he reduced the budget (not the deficit) by hals and slingshot the econoimy from the Depression of 1920 (the one you necer heard of) into the Roaring 20’s.

[mlocher]

Yeah, if Waxman can call corporate CEOs, if Obama can have an “insurance summit”, then why not have a “Union Summit”?