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During the 2001 legislative session, when I invited a few legislators with whom I had discussed the need to cut t he cost of Commonwealth government to meet in my small office, I couldn’t have dreamt what the Cost Cutting Caucus (CCC> would grow into.
Of course, from that vantage point I couldn't have predicted that we would have a Democratic governor proclaiming the need to cut and consolidate. iSlor could I have predicted so large a budget deficit as the one stalking us this year.
I called a CCC meeting the first week this session. To my astonishment almost 20 members attended, so many that not all could sit around the conference table in the hearing room near my office. Delegate Harry Parrish, a member of the house for 21 years and chairman of the Finance Committee, contributed to the discussion for the full hour.
Delegate Michele McQuigg spoke on the need to move Virginia into “performance based budgets” wherein the state budget can be easily understood by Virginia citizens and results measured against goals, not possible with past budgets. Assistant majorityleader Bob McDonnell gave a short speech at the end, in which he stated that our party is new to House control and that it was our duty to change state government for the better.
Our objective will be to pare, cut and provide Commonwealth taxpayers the most cost effective government humanly possible. He described the CCC as a think tank and expressed
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