Tom Rooney Cheers Congress Cutting In-House Spending

The U.S. House members voted to trim their own office budgets by 5 percent on Thursday and Florida Republicans are insisting it is a good start to controlling federal spending.

Trimming the fat in Congress is the first step toward getting federal spending under control, said U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney who stated that this would save $35 million annually. We need to start making the tough decisions to put Washingtons fiscal house in order. When the spending levels set by the last Congress expire in March, the House will immediately return spending to pre-bailout, pre-stimulus levels.

Voters sent a strong message in November that they are ready for the spending binge in Washington to come to an end, added Rooney. We are going to cut government spending, starting with our own office budgets. The American people are finding ways to cut back, and so should the federal government.