That i would recommend to this g body we consider. Because if were going to fix our debt and our deficit, we also need to look at the procest of how we do budgeting and fix t this. Here are a few trillio thoughts. You year. We do a budget every two years. O we should at least do a little o bit of advanced planning. We should be able to do that two years in advance. Le the spending. Every we could do appropriations everf single year to be able to provide accountability. The how major budget process we should do every two we should get rid of the udget. Gimmicks that dominate this body and how we quote unquote balance the budget. I like pinch and smoothing. Corporate timing shifts be an odd of our favorite chips, insi which everyone outside this citd thinks is a monkey and everyon inside of this city know its just a great budgeting technique. Heres how some of those work. Heres an example from octobers budget agreement. The acceleration in section 502o changed the due date from pension premiums from october 15th, 2025, to september 15th, d 2025. In order to get 2. 3 billion tenyear window. Now, what just changed there . They moved the payment time 30 days forward. And said thats when its do. And since they moved it 30 dayss forward ten years from now, now suddenly thats another 2 billion into the federal budgetd if our federal budget wasnt ten years, it was ten years and b t week, it would have about 2 li. Billion short. But because they moved that th a month and made it a little bit earlier, it suddenly picks up 2 billion. Its not real. Like thats a gimmick. The changes in mandatory programs that go out there. Take Something Like the victims protection fund. An fund that is expected we will spend. But when we dont spend part ofo it, theyll say great, you can t take that part we were expected to spend and you s actually spe this year and then guess what, e next year you spend it again, next year you spend it again. Good that should be struck. We shouldnt have little gimmicks like that. Those things make Congress Look good look good, but dont actually deal with our deficit and our debt. R the rules that are internal, need to be fixed. We need to get real numbers andt have agreeable real numbers. Right now theres a big argument all the time saying, how does f the budget balance against the a president s budget . This baseline, that baseline. As a lot of programs have not beena working for a decade. A but we continue toble allocate every single year. Its important to do the te,wor to bring bills to the floor and get it done. Rent f we have reports shows waste. Ight yet many of those, no one ever acts on. Three different folks that i set on the floor here right now, te senator flake from arizona, doll we reports in the past five months. Detailing billions of dollars io waste. Rocess we can identify these things. The Inspector Generals Office l can identify these things. Than the gao can identify these areas. We set a process in place that solves those things. Our and we can do more than talk about it. R we can move it from just a messaging moment to solutions on our debt and our deficit. I recommended things like the et government shut down prevention, to say we dont have the ns a government shutdown. Money al romantic about government wa shutdowns and what they would ml accomplish. Government shutdowns alwaysn ce more money to the taxpayer than is safe. This. Always. And itcongress causes a tremend amount of turmoil in the federa. Workforce. How easier way to handle it. Easier way to handle how about we do something really simple and straightforward. At the end of a budget year, if we do not have a budget in place and proper appropriations, we have aex shortterm continuing resolution for 30 days that automatically goes in place and allth legislative offices, and 0 executive office of the white house get a funding hair cut immediately, to create the incentive that we need to hou ar 30 days later, we still dont have it done, the executive are pres house, and the senate get another hair cut. Tho we can add the pressure to us that dont damage the rest of the nation. Why dont we do those things . Pass a balanced budget amendmeni that we talked about forever, that we voted on in 2011 and has not come up again. We will never get to some of these things until congress is propelled to do the right thingh lets put a process in place, beginning with budget reform, s how we do the budget, and strutheral changes here to pushn this body to do what everyone outside this body says needs to be done. In the days ahead when were spending more on interest than r national defense, this body should hang its head in shame. St should fix it so that never happens. And we can get on top of our debt and our deficit with a straightforward process that gets us back to work. With that, mr. President , i yield back. Wednesday on capitol hill, janel yellen testifies on the state of the economy, live at 10 00 a. M. Eastern here on cspa cspan3. The zika virus with centers for Disease Control and prevention and National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases director. Thats at 1 00 p. M. Eastern also on cspan3. After releasing his 165 page budget proposal, president obama talked about the increased investments in cyber security. Lets take a look. Everybody all set . Good. We made a lot of progress over the past seven years on our economy, unemployment is down, deficits are down, gas prices are down. Job creation, wages, the rate of americans with Health Coverage are all up. So as i said at the state of the union, america is as strongly positioned as any country on earth to take advantage of the opportunities of the 21st century. But what were aware of is we all have a lot of work to do. Not only to try to maintain momentum but to go at some of the structural issues and problems that may be impeding people from making progress, getting opportunity and living the kind of lives for themselves and their children that we all want for every american. The budget that were releasing today reflects my priorities. And the priorities that i believe will help advance security and prosperity in america for many years to come. These are proposals reflected in the budget that work for us and not against us. It adheres to last years bipartisan budget agreement. It drives down the deficit. It includes smart savings on healthcare, immigration, tax reform. My budget also invests in opportunity and security for all americans through education and training, new ideas for Retirement Savings and unemployment insurance. And it invests in innovation, harnessing technology to tackle challenges like Climate Change through clean energy and transportation. As well as the initiative that Vice President joe biden is leading to make sure that were going after cancer in an aggressive way. And it strengthens our National Security by increasing defense spending and our Global Leadership through diplomacy and through development. More and more keeping america safe is not just a matter of more tanks, more aircraft carriers, not just a matter of bolstering our security on the ground