BILL PROPOSES 60 VOTES TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS

An End to Budgetary Trickery - When is money it spends considered money saved? When Congress says so
Olympia J. Snoe and Jeff Sessions -

'The whole art of government," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1774, "consists in the art of being honest." Yet Washington today relies on budget gimmicks to enable and conceal countless billions in federal deficit spending—skirting the rules and misleading the public.
That is why we have introduced the Honest Budget Act. It will strip away many of the most blatant and dishonest gimmicks—making it harder to spend money we don't have, and helping to confront the larger culture of fiscal corruption that is bankrupting the country and eroding public confidence in government.

The place to start is with the budget itself. For two years in a row, the Democratic-led Senate has failed to adopt a budget as required by law. Meanwhile, our gross national debt has climbed to almost $15 trillion—as large as our entire economy. Our bill puts in place a 60-vote threshold before any appropriation bill can be moved through Congress—unless both houses have adopted a binding budget resolution.

The bill also eliminates other budget tricks, including:

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