Senators Perdue, Whitehouse Force Senate to Acknowledge Broken Budget Process
Statement
Date: Oct. 19, 2017
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Government Budget and Spending
U.S. Senators David Perdue (R-GA) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), both members of the Senate Budget Committee, made the following statement on their bipartisan amendment to the FY2018 budget:
"Only four times in the past 43 years has this budget process actually funded the federal government. Finding common ground to develop a real budget should be a bipartisan effort, and that's why we're fighting to fix it."
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