PRESIDENT PROMISED BUDGET REVIEW TO ELIMINATE UNECESSARY, DUPLICATIVE, OR WASTEFUL GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS

WASHINGTON, OCT. 4, 2011 – “Repeatedly, President Obama pledged to conduct a ‘page by page, line by line’ review of the federal budget to cut costs and create new efficiencies,” said Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL), Chairman of the   House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.  “Our nation faces a debt crisis, and spending under President Obama has increased by more than 20 percent annually.  I want to see what actions, if any, the Administration has taken to review the federal budget and to reduce spending.”

This is the first in a series of hearings on the budget review process that will focus on the Office of Management and Budget.  The hearing entitled “Administration Efforts on Line-by-Line Budget Review,” will be held on Wednesday, October 5^th, at 9:30 AM in Room 3222 RHOB.

Witnesses:

Panel 1 – Clinton Brass, Analyst in Government Organization and Management, Congressional Research Service.

Panel 2 – Thomas Schatz, President, Citizens Against Government Waste; Patrick Knudsen, Grover M. Hermann Senior Fellow in Federal Budgetary Affairs, The Heritage Foundation; Veronique de Rugy, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University; Tad DeHaven, Budget Analyst, CATO Institute; Andrew Moylan, VP of Government affairs, National Taxpayers Union; Gary Kalman, Director, Federal Legislative Office, U.S. PIRG.