Lankford Applauds House Passage of FY14 Budget

Lankford Applauds House Passage of FY14 Budget

Washington, D.C. — House Republican Policy Committee Chairman and House Budget Committee member James Lankford (R-OK) released the following statement after the House passed the budget proposal for fiscal year (FY) 2014 today in a vote of 221-207.

“The work on the House floor to debate and pass the FY14 House budget proposal is another step to put our nation back on solid economic footing and promote private-sector job growth,” said Lankford.

“A national debt of more than $16.7 trillion is not our greatest issue. Our greatest issue is the fact that we have not agreed on a plan to ever stop increasing our debt. Today is the first day in almost four years that both chambers of Congress have participated in a substantive conversation about a federal budget. Since 2009—the last time the Senate considered a budget—we have racked up more than $5 trillion in national debt. I hope the national conversation continues to shift to a bipartisan, bicameral discussion on the need for a long-term plan to get our nation back on a path to fiscal responsibility.”

In the FY14 budget blueprint, Chairman Ryan and the House Budget Committee crafted a long-term plan to balance our spending in the next 10 years and cut $4.6 trillion over the same time period. The House budget plan reforms our burdensome federal tax code, preserves Medicare for our nation’s senior adults and reforms federal spending for American families, not waste and more bureaucracy.

“We must show future generations that we did not see the most predictable crisis in our history and decide to put it off until later,” continued Lankford. “Our children and grandchildren deserve a real plan that allows them to share in the same dreams of prosperity that our parents left for my generation. The unstable economy is slowing job growth, decreasing real wages and causing serious concerns for American families. It is time to invest in families and give them back control of their future.

“I look forward to Senate consideration of our FY14 budget proposal. I also look forward to the prospect of House consideration of a Senate-passed budget for the first time in almost four years,” concluded Lankford.

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March 21, 2013 202-225-2132