Subject: RE: Corker Banking Hearing
From: "Haxo, Chris" <[email-masked]>
To: "Bhatnagar, Akshai" <[email-masked]>, Research_D <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 08:36:09 -0700

Budget Hearing: Fixing Budget Process & Restoring Stability to Govt. Operations, 4/20/16

*         I lobbied to be on this committee

*         Budget process is the biggest hoax pulled on the American people that I've ever been a part of

*         Put in place assumptions that will never become a reality, and have no policy behind them

*         Because Dems/Repubs stress different priorities in charge, we end up spending more

*         Would the panelists agree that it would be better if the budget resolution was a law?

o    It's hard enough as it is, adding more teeth and making it a law could be dangerous.

*         We spend money we don't have. A tax decrease is a tax increase on future generations. What is the forcing mechanism to deal with the fact that our nation will be weaker because we don't address important issues.

o    Reconciliation is an option, but not a good one.

*         Let's talk about paygo. You spread out one year of spending over 10 years. It's a hoax. It's that a sane way of doing business?

o    I'm happy to propose that.

From: Bhatnagar, Akshai
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 11:17 AM
To: Haxo, Chris
Subject: Corker Banking Hearing

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