{"id":3871,"date":"2018-07-18T08:57:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T12:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=3871"},"modified":"2018-07-18T08:57:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T12:57:58","slug":"we-might-actually-get-budget-reform-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/we-might-actually-get-budget-reform-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"We might actually get budget reform this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Real-Clear-Policy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3872\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/we-might-actually-get-budget-reform-this-year\/real-clear-policy\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Real-Clear-Policy.png\" data-orig-size=\"524,130\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Real Clear Policy\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Real-Clear-Policy-300x74.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Real-Clear-Policy.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3872\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Real-Clear-Policy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Real-Clear-Policy.png 524w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Real-Clear-Policy-300x74.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/a>This past week, Congress held\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8jg77LG-5ds\">another hearing<\/a>\u00a0on budget reform. Two former budget committee chairmen, Leon Panetta and David Obey, both testified. They lamented the current state of congressional budgeting and identified aspects of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/agenda\/story\/2015\/10\/richard-nixon-congressional-budget-control-act-history-000282\">1974 Budget Act<\/a>\u00a0that discourage fiscally responsible and timely annual budgeting.<\/p>\n<p>Readers might be tempted to shrug this off as a non-event. \u201cElected officials complain about the budget, but never do anything,\u201d is a common sentiment. But there are reasons to believe that we might actually get budget reform this year&#8230;. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolicy.com\/articles\/2018\/07\/18\/we_might_actually_get_budget_reform_this_year_110715.html\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, Congress held\u00a0another hearing\u00a0on budget reform. Two former budget committee chairmen, Leon Panetta and David Obey, both testified. They lamented the current state of congressional budgeting and identified aspects of the\u00a01974 Budget Act\u00a0that discourage fiscally responsible and timely annual budgeting. Readers might be tempted to shrug this off as a non-event. \u201cElected officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[165],"tags":[183],"class_list":["post-3871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","tag-real-clear-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-10r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3873,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions\/3873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}