NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Kansas First District Congressman Tracey Mann voted against the latest attempt to extend the budget deadline for another few weeks.
"I am way past sick of it," Mann said. "I voted against the continuing resolution yesterday in Washington. It would just kick the can down the road for another month, which is the third or fourth time that's occurred since September. Here's the bottom line. As a nation, we are $34 trillion in debt. We have got to get our spending under control. We've got to return to regular order. We've got to get to the basic appropriations process."
Mann said a lot of the underlying work is done, but they just haven't finished up the details.
"We have gone through the appropriations process last year in a more detailed, thorough manner than has been done in a long, long, long time in Washington," Mann said. "We looked at every agency, every office within every department in every agency, really talking about, where can we have cuts? There's a lot of amendments that I voted for to make some cuts, to get some efficiencies, to kind of get things reined back in, but then, what happened last fall was changing out the Speaker and things got delayed. The whole thing is delayed, but it's way past time that Congress does its job and gets budget resolutions passed and the government funded."
The next deadline for the government's funding comes in early March.
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