Coalition Urges Congress to Implement Hatch-Duncan Anti-Appropriations Committees [Big-Spenders]

ATR ^ | 2011-04-26 | Mattie Corrao

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"...The Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Programs is not a new idea – in fact, the committee existed first in the 77th Congress after it was proposed by Senator Harry F. Byrd Sr. (D-Va.). Named after its creator, the “Byrd Committee” was tasked solely with cutting unnecessary and redundant federal programs and was able to enact real reform to that end – the Committee netted over $38 billion in savings (in adjusted dollars) in just its first few years of existence.

Created in 1941, the Committee was integral in dialing back some of the exponential New Deal growth in government. After two years of bailouts and government “stimulus,” American taxpayers could benefit greatly from a similar effort aimed at decreasing the burden of government..."

Read more: http://www.atr.org/coalition-urges-congress-implement-hatch-duncan-a6098#ixzz1KlC9dMoV

[92nina]

The time has come for Congress to do critical examination of its spending binges.

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