{"id":54229,"date":"2015-01-16T15:28:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T15:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2015\/01\/16\/governors-turned-sens-want-2-year-budgeting\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:58:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:58:50","slug":"governors-turned-sens-want-2-year-budgeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2015\/01\/16\/governors-turned-sens-want-2-year-budgeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Governors-Turned Sens Want 2-Year Budgeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Two former governors are pushing legislation in the US Senate that would require presidents to submit two-year budget plans to Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democratic Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, both former Virginia chief executives, believe the federal government&#8217;s practice of crafting budgets each year is &#8220;broken.&#8221; The duo also say <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">believes <\/span>Congress should devote more time to its oversight of the executive branch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s why this week they introduced legislation that would shift the Pentagon and other federal departments away from crafting annual budgets. Instead, the White House would submit two-year budget requests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span>Under the Warner-Kaine bill, dubbed the &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"background: #ffffff;\">Biennial Budgeting and Appropriations Act<\/span><span style=\"background: #ffffff;\"> of 2015,&#8221; presidents would send lawmakers two-year budget blueprints at the start of each congressional session, which also span two years.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/budget-policy\/congresswatch\/\">For the latest national security news from Capitol Hill, go to CongressWatch.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the first year, Congress would draft a budget resolution and pass appropriations bills. In the second year of the proposed cycle, lawmakers would focus on oversight of executive branch programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a model Warner and Kaine say works for their commonwealth and other states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Twenty states, including Virginia, operate on a two-year budget cycle, so we know it works,&#8221; Warner said in a joint statement with Kaine. &#8220;Budgeting on a two-year time frame is a commonsense way to provide more oversight of federal spending and a more thoughtful approach to the entire budget process.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kaine said it is &#8220;clear that Congress&#8217; current budgeting and appropriations process is broken,&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I believe adopting such a model would dramatically improve our ability to achieve normal budget order,&#8221; Kaine said, &#8220;giving certainty to families and businesses.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Defense Department has tried this before. Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld moved the building to two-year budget cycles in 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not that anyone noticed. Nor aided by the instruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then-Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn killed the process in April 2010 because, he said at the time, &#8220;nobody used the second year.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under Rumsfeld&#8217;s supposed two-year process, major funding and programmatic changes are supposed to be made in even years; smaller adjustments were to be made in odd years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One big problem: &#8220;Everyone involved just ignored that second year,&#8221; Lynn said in 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The building ignored it. Congress ignored it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So why keep it?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Email: jbennett@defensenews.com <\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twitter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BennettJohnT\"><span style=\"color: #4a86e8;\">@bennettjohnt<\/span><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two former governors are pushing legislation in the US Senate that would require presidents to submit two-year budget plans to Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":114390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":8,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[8,33,19],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1090],"class_list":["post-54229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-congress","category-home","category-pentagon"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"7WRK53GA5FG3FKWTJ3IPG3ZTRI","arc_canonical_url":"\/congress\/2015\/01\/16\/governors-turned-sens-want-2-year-budgeting\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Governors-Turned Sens Want 2-Year Budgeting - Defense News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Two former governors are pushing legislation in the US Senate that would require presidents to submit two-year budget plans to Congress.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Governors-Turned Sens Want 2-Year Budgeting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Two former governors are pushing legislation in the US Senate that would require presidents to submit two-year budget plans to Congress.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2015\/01\/16\/governors-turned-sens-want-2-year-budgeting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Defense News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-01-16T15:28:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-07T23:58:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"John T. 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