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| https://www.enzi.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ContentRecord_id=c849015d-462d-4473-93ff-da3431e177d9 | If youre going to complain, you better have solutions | 2014-09-16 | 2014 | 2014-09 | Republican | House | WY | Michael Enzi | E000285 | www.enzi.senate.gov | legacy | Congress is getting ready to vote on another short-term continuing resolution to fund the government for a few more weeks. U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., said it is time to stop this Band-Aid and bailing wire approach to budgeting that has become the norm. He presented his Penny Plan and biennial budgeting bill as realistic common-sense solutions to help put the government’s fiscal house in order and end deficit spending. Enzi emphasized that Congress should stop deal-making and start legislating to bring America’s budget process into the 21st century and guarantee a more secure future for the generations to come. “Sometimes as lawmakers we seem to act as if this problem is too big to solve, but it’s not. Understanding how to reach and maintain financial health is not rocket science. It merely requires exercising common sense and commitment,” said Enzi. A simple and straightforward way to put our country back on the right fiscal path, the Penny Plan would cut a single penny from every dollar the federal government spends, balancing the budget in just three years and then capping spending at a reasonable level. Over a 10-year budget window, the bill would cut spending by about $7.6 trillion. “The Penny Plan steers us away from some of the controversy and political traps we’ve seen for spending reductions,” said Enzi. “At the onset, it does not identify the specific cuts that are necessary to achieve the one percent reduction in savings. Instead, such decisions are left for us to make. Its beauty is it puts a broad plan into action.” Similar to how the Wyoming Legislature works, Enzi’s biennial budget bill would force the federal government to budget over a two-year period, instead of the one-year window as it does now, giving Congress more time to scrutinize spending and eliminate duplication and waste. “We obviously don’t have time to look through the budget. We keep doing continuing resolutions and then we do an omnibus bill. We’re supposed to do those through 12 separate bills,” said Enzi. “Twelve separate bills that get debate, not just in committee, but on the floor of the senate with amendments. It has been a long time since we have done that. Biennial budgeting would allow us to get into the nerve center of spending and get something done.” | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |