Posted on 05/15/2021 10:19:01 AM PDT by RandFan
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), ranking member of the Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight (ETSO) subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC), reintroduced the Legislative Performance Review Act (LPRA) to encourage Congress to regularly review federal programs and look for ways to improve them or otherwise consolidate or eliminate duplicative or wasteful efforts.
Similar legislation was previously passed in a bipartisan manor by several Congresses, and was championed in the 95th Congress by then U.S. Senator Joe Biden (D-DE). Today, there are over 1,000 different programs that have not been reauthorized yet continue to get funded, totaling over $410 billion annually. Funding these programs without review leads to duplication, fragmentation, inefficiency, and waste of taxpayer money.
“We cannot afford to keep spending taxpayer dollars on expired programs and ones that are never reviewed. I just want to exert the power of the purse, and that means spending must expire. My bill, will end expired programs, require Congress to review the need for programs before spending more money, and make sure we are only using tax dollars on things that make sense,” said Dr. Paul.
“It is clear that there is growing sentiment around the country for less government, more efficient government, less costly government, and less intrusion into people’s lives by government. I do not believe that this sentiment is going to go away. In fact, I think it may get stronger. It is our responsibility, as I see it, to meet this feeling with action. Spending control legislation will benefit the taxpayers of the country. It should help assure better service for the dollar and fewer dollars spent. This legislation will save considerable amounts of money,” said then U.S. Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) on S. 1244.
II give Dr. Paul an A for effort, but I think even he knows such a bill ain’t gonna see daylight in the Senate.
I will give him more than a A I will get behind my Democrat Senator to pass this bill and ask my legislators to write a similar bill for the countries we send AID to, Hamas for incidence, does not deserve our tax dollar help.
Bipartisan manor sounds like a house united.
Nice try but not a snowball’s chance in hell of passage.
At this point, what difference does it make? We are attached to the government by an inclined plane, wrapped helically around an axis? Unless of course we decide to say “My State, Our Choice” shortly after we decide “My Life, My Choice?”
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