… instead of asking a question, but what I'm hearing is that the means has become the end. We get so caught up in the means, we're not getting there. And Any proposal that includes automatic funding for anything seems like it defeats that purpose of making us vote on it every year. So we go back to our taxpayers and say, well, what we're doing. And so I really like your bill. I like the idea that we need to change the process to make it work. (01:36–01:43)
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Asserts that automatic funding proposals undermine annual congressional voting accountability.
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