Your Washington – GA 7 – Desk:
From Congressman Rob Woodall:
House Passes Baseline Reform Act
The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1871, the Baseline Reform Act, to end the cycle of “Washington math” that allows spending to rise while calling it a “cut.” Introduced by Georgia’s Seventh District Representative Rob Woodall, the bill would end the current bias towards more spending in Washington.
“Budgets are about choices and priorities,” said Woodall. “This bill is about making those Congressional choices transparent to the American people. At a time of record debt and deficits we in Congress owe it to the American people to not spend one more penny of their money without carefully justifying it. Acting as if we are hostages to our past spending habits will only yield more of the same results: higher spending and greater borrowing. I’m excited to lead this opportunity for a new path, one that provides taxpayers with the transparency needed to hold their government accountable.”
With much of the current conversation on Capitol Hill centering on the budget, Woodall is a prominent voice. He is a member of the House Budget Committee, Chairman of the Republican Study Committee’s Budget and Spending Task Force, and Chairman of the Rules Committee Budget Subcommittee. He was joined in this effort by Chairman Paul Ryan of the Budget Committee who expressed his support by saying, “I want to thank Congressmen Woodall and Gohmert (TX-01) for offering this bill. We should write the federal budget the same way that a family writes its own budget. You don’t just assume you will spend more on the same item every year. You figure out what works and what needs fixing. It’s our job to set priorities and to assess the results. And that’s why I’m proud to support this bill.”
Woodall went on to say, “This bill makes no attempt to dictate spending within Congress. It simply ensures that the American people have a clearly defined reference point to judge how their tax dollars are being spent in Washington. Transparency should not be a partisan issue.”
Woodall represents the Seventh Congressional District of Georgia, which includes the majority of Gwinnett and Forsyth counties.
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