This House Committee on the modernization of Congress Heard from congresswoman nita lowey chairs the committee. This hearing was announced before congresswoman low we announced he would retire from Congress Following this term. Committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is titled recommendations for approving the budget and appropriations process, a look at the work of the select committee on process reform and i recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. The 104th congress which convened in 1945 was the last to pass Appropriations Bills. That was almost 25 years ago. Most house members serving today have never seen a process that works the way it was supposed to where stand alone bills were passed on time. And established by the bipartisan budget act of 2018. The committee was charged with making recommendations to significantly reform the process. It was acknowledgment th
Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time and this is entitled approving the budget process, and a look at the Budget Committee on budget process reform. I recognize myself for five minutes for a statement. The 104th congress convened in 1995 was the last to pass all of the Appropriations Bills prior to the start of the fiscal year and that was almost 25 years ago, and most of the house members serving today have never seen a process to work the way it is supposed to where the stand alone bills are passed on time. On the joint committee on budget and appropriations reform, along with myself and bob woodall was tasked with making recommendations to significantly reform the budget and appropriations process. The very act of establishing the committee is acknowledging that the process is not working the way it should. And article 9 section one of the constitution says that no treasury should be withdrawn without the authorization of congress. It is a const
Conference. At the grand hyatt hotel. If any of you are interested in health care, we will have a separate health care session. Either i was perfect or you this was not exciting at all. Thank you very much. It doesnt look like me at all. Im Randy Johnson at the u. S. Chamber of commerce, im just a lawyer, im not going to pretend to add to all the information people provided today. Im proud of this summit, its our fifth one. And my goal on this, five or six years ago, was, if we can bring together a lot of smart people and talk about a lot of technological advances, and move the beuhl forward a little bit on disease treatment, wellness programs, we can call it a day and go home. We earned our members dues. On a personal basis ive experienced a lot of i lost a sister, two sisters and a brother to cancer recently. Both under 70. I also had Prostate Cancer several years ago, i picked up a tid bit here in one of these meetings which gave me the information to reject a recommendation several
Its interesting how that came about. How do we fix these issues . I do think its possible to manage confrontation. Penn states hr 70 policy for dismissal of a faculty member talks about how the testimony can be obtained and gives the Panel Control over saying this is revictimizing or we need to do something. Its just not specific. I think requiring clear and convincing evidence to protect against procedural irregularities which is often the argument, well, we need this, if we dont have this, were going to have procedural irregularities. Why dont we fix the irregularities then. Instead of having a standard that is criminalizing, i think thats the important point, confrontation and the hearing i think in dismissal or suspension and the cases for students was pretty clear that that initial case was for suspension and they said if you need more, there might be more required. Use of technology, questions of the panel, interrogatories for people who choose not to attend, using the investigat