A congressional panel tasked with fixing the broken spending process will hold a public hearing next week aimed at developing reforms.
The Joint Select Committee on Budget and Appropriations Process Reform will hear from witnesses about finding “Bipartisanship in Budgeting,” which has been largely missing from the House and Senate over the past two decades when it comes to passing the dozen spending bills that fund the federal government.
The witness list for the May 9 hearing includes Bipartisan Policy Center Vice President G. William Hoagland and Emily Holubowich, of the Convergence Building a Better Budget Process Project.
The panel is tasked with producing legislation by the end of November that would help end the spending gridlock in Congress that has led to endless “fiscal cliffs,” and the need for massive omnibus spending bills that lack accountability and hurt government operations, particularly the military.
Lawmakers created the committee as part of the two-year budget agreement Congress passed in March. The panel is comprised of House and Senate lawmakers from both parties.
