We started this Congress by cutting 5% from our 2011 budgets. We voted to again reduce our budgets by an additional 6.4% in the Legislative Branch Appropriations bill that the House passed.
H.R. 2551, Making Appropriations for the Legislative Branch for Fiscal Year 2012.Click here to read the bill.
I voted in favor of H.R. 2551, which passed 252-159.
http://yoder.house.gov/press-release/house-passes-additional-cuts-our-own-budgets