Bipartisan Senate Bill Seeks Major Reforms in Budget Process

Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget, Mike Enzi (R – Wyo) on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 3, 2018. Astrid Riecken/Getty Images

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) and committee member Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) introduced the “Bipartisan Congressional Budget Reform Act” to provide “a more orderly, deliberative budget process focused on long-term fiscal planning.”

Enzi and Whitehouse added in a statement announcing their proposal that they believe “it would end the brinksmanship surrounding the debt limit and encourage bipartisan collaboration in tackling our growing debt and deficits.”