Following the U.S. Senate's failure to pass either the Democratic or Republican proposals to avert the arbitrary, automatic, indiscriminate budget cuts, commonly called sequestration, Senators Mark Udall (D-Colo.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) announced that they will introduce a plan to allow the federal government to propose more targeted cuts while also allowing for appropriate congressional oversight.
The bipartisan legislation would allow individual federal departments and agencies to propose how they each would more strategically implement the otherwise-thoughtless, automatic cuts. The bill would require that the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives appropriations committees work with the administration to provide oversight and ultimately approve the spending plans.
"Blunt, shortsighted budget cuts are not the responsible way to reduce the deficit," Udall said. "This bipartisan plan ensures that the White House and Congress would work together to replace arbitrary cuts with smarter, focused spending reductions. Although I would have preferred that Congress had passed a comprehensive and balanced deficit-reduction plan to replace the sequester, the Udall-Collins plan is the only immediate way to temper the effects the sequester will have on our economy and national security."
- See more at: http://www.markudall.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=3173#sthash.zzO8Tiwt.dpuf
The bipartisan legislation would allow individual federal departments and agencies to propose how they each would more strategically implement the otherwise-thoughtless, automatic cuts. The bill would require that the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives appropriations committees work with the administration to provide oversight and ultimately approve the spending plans.
"Blunt, shortsighted budget cuts are not the responsible way to reduce the deficit," Udall said. "This bipartisan plan ensures that the White House and Congress would work together to replace arbitrary cuts with smarter, focused spending reductions. Although I would have preferred that Congress had passed a comprehensive and balanced deficit-reduction plan to replace the sequester, the Udall-Collins plan is the only immediate way to temper the effects the sequester will have on our economy and national security."
- See more at: http://www.markudall.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=3173#sthash.zzO8Tiwt.dpuf
