A path to a better budget

Last week the House Budget Committee approved a Fiscal Year 2017 budget resolution. As a member of the committee, I am proud of all the hard work done by my colleagues; however, when it came time to vote, I could not support the budget resolution as it was drafted. In a departure from the established caps set by the Budget Control Act, the House budget planned to spend an additional $30 billion for FY 2017.

I warned this could be the case in October of last year when I sent a letter along with 43 of my colleagues to Speaker Boehner, requesting that as House Republicans, we maintain the fiscal discipline that was imposed by the Budget Control Act caps.