Tag Archives: budget reform

Can Congress Be Fixed?

BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON  |  APR 18, 2024

This first appeared in Katie Couric Media

Congress is broken and needs to be fixed…but there is a path forward.

Do you believe the federal government ought to be active or passive, bigger or smaller, weak or strong, socialist or anarchist, isolationist or internationalist — or somewhere in between?

Don’t dwell on it too long. Your opinion doesn’t matter. You know why?

Because the vast majority of those options can’t be transformed into public policy when government can’t function; and more to the point, if Congress can’t legislate. Which is exactly what’s happening now. Continue reading →

Thune Budget Reforms Deserve Attention

BY GARY ANDRES

 Reprinted from weeklystandard.com

The View’s hostesses probably won’t invite Senator John Thune on the show to discuss his new budget proposal. Ideas this thoughtful rarely attract pop culture media attention.

Despite the glitterati’s lack of interest, the South Dakota senator’s new plan to restore fiscal discipline should become a cause for decision-makers and regular Americans alike.

President Obama, on the other hand, has no problems finding his way to a daytime TV set.  But when it comes to curbing red ink, he disappears when others yell “Action!”

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