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BY D. FRENCH SLAUGHTER
Seventh District, Virginia
As I traveled around the Seventh District this month, one theme was raised again and again by concerned citizens: the overspending by Congress.
One example of this excess was continually cited: the $8 million in funding included in the budget package passed by Congress for a private school in Paris, France. | This provison was slipped into the budget during negotiations between a few members of Congress, and most members were not aware of this action. While this project is just one of numerous examples of wasteful spending by the Congress, I hope that the concern it has raised will help lead the Congress to reform its budget process which usually produces overspending and high deficits.
I favor reform of the budget process in a way that will force the Congress to establish priorities for the spending of Federal resources. Our huge federal deficit dictates that we do not have the luxury of funding every seemingly worthwhile program.
Rather, Congress must discipline itself to establish priorities for financing those programs, hold expenditures at the present level for most programs, or follow some process which would be effective in producing budget savings.
A balanced budget amendment to our Constitution would provide the best mechanism to force Congress to establish spending priori
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