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John Thune: “We create a new joint committee of the Congress, a permanent…”

Featuring: John Thune, Republican | Senate Majority Leader, South Dakota

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Congressional Budget Reform and Policy Discussion with Speaker B

Published | Video Starts at 00:17

Well, first off, what we do is we freeze non defense discretionary spending at the 2008 level, index it for inflation for the next 10 years, and that saves about $450 billion. Then We create a new joint committee of the Congress, a permanent standing committee of the Congress, whose sole purpose would be to reduce spending. find ways to reduce the deficit through spending cuts, not through tax increases, but through spending cuts. And they would have to find 10% savings of the deficit every budget cycle. (00:17–00:25)

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