Today, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) and Ranking Member Brendan Boyle (D-PA) announced their intention to lead a new bipartisan effort focused on budget process reform. This new House Budget Committee initiative will convene Members, stakeholders, and experts to examine alternatives to the current flawed and ineffective Congressional budget process.
Lead a bipartisan effort to reform the congressional budget process, including convening roundtables and meetings to examine alternatives to the current process.
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Today, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) and Ranking Member Brendan Boyle (D-PA) announced their intention to lead a new bipartisan effort focused on budget process reform. This new House Budget Committee initiative will convene Members, stakeholders, and experts to examine alternatives to the current flawed and ineffective Congressional budget process.
Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX), Ranking Member Brendan Boyle (D-PA), and House Budget Process Reform Task Force Chair Rudy Yakym (R-IN) held a Member Day Hearing to solicit ideas on how to reform Washington’s broken budget process. The Committee received testimony from 11 Members of Congress, including 10 off-Committee Members.
This bipartisan legislation, championed by Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) and Ranking Member Brendan Boyle (D-PA), is the first-ever House Budget Committee bill to become law with unanimous support from Congress.
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Boyle, as House Budget Committee ranking member, jointly launched a bipartisan budget-process reform initiative with Chairman Jodey Arrington in June 2023, explicitly to convene members, stakeholders, and experts to examine alternatives to the congressional budget process. The effort produced a formal Member Day hearing in December 2023 and later a bipartisan budget-process-related bill, the CBO Data Sharing Act, became law in September 2024. Because the promise focused on leading a bipartisan reform effort and convening meetings to examine alternatives, not necessarily passing comprehensive budget-process reform, the available evidence supports full delivery in the same federal term.