Washington, DC — U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX), today released the following statement on the passage of H.R. 1314, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, a two-year budget bill:
“It’s dangerous to hold America’s military hostage to politics, as President Obama repeatedly does. Our nation is at war and every opportunity I get to fully fund our military, especially for two years so they have predictability, I’ll take it.
The President insisted on a blank check for more spending, and we denied him. Instead the bill includes the first Social Security reforms in decades by adopting Ways & Means Committee solutions to the disability program to stop rampant fraud, direct help to the truly disabled and reward those who want to return run to work. That is serious entitlement reform.”
Background: H.R. 1314 encompasses a two-year bipartisan, bicameral, budget agreement with the Administration to secure long-term savings through structural entitlement reforms, protect the economy by ensuring the country does not default on its debt, strengthen national security and protect U.S. Armed Forces, bring certainty to the congressional appropriations process, and protect more people from the President’s health care law, without raising taxes and by offsetting additional spending with mandatory spending cuts and other savings.
