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More nuisance. Discuss it, resolve it, one way or the other.
But budgets have to originate in the House and Dirty Harry isn't about to allow any discussion of bills that come to him. How do you get bipartisan work done when Reid is playing the game he plays? I just don't understand.
It's just another way of not doing anything while saying they are "doing something". Some of their followers will gobble it up but not very many overall. Waste of time.
Didn't the Senate vote for the 6 month extensions? What is the difference in any kind of game playing, 3 or 6?
Check your facts. Nothing but CRs have been passes since 1997.
Somebody is confused about this subject, either you or the former Comptroller General Walker. I will vote for you as to the confused one. I will give you a chance to read Mr. Walker and then watch his video about the subject. Go ahead and read and then listen. He says the last one was 2009 but does go back to 1996 pretty close to your year.
How about a comprehensive plan and pass it once a year instead of just wasting everyone's time and patience.
I would surely be willing to see them to do their constitutional duty and pass a budget. That word comprehensive scares me, though, since it is used with immigration reform so often by Congress critters.
It is past time for us to demand that the Congress do its duty with the budget process but they just can't do it in a day or two.
They are legally supposed to pass an annual budget and then pass annual spending bills which they don't pass, either.
I would surely be willing to see them to do their constitutional duty and pass a budget. That word comprehensive scares me, though, since it is used with immigration reform so often by Congress critters.
It is past time for us to demand that the Congress do its duty with the budget process but they just can't do it in a day or two.
They are legally supposed to pass an annual budget and then pass annual spending bills which they don't pass, either.
They are legally supposed to consider an annual budget and they do pass spending bills.
As I understand the Repub proposition, the 90 days would be used to draft a comprehensive budget. Then, if such a budget was not created, all Representatives and Senators would not receive their paychecks until a plan was produced.
And, as I understand it, a budget does not have to be passed under this resolution. It only needs to be produced within the 90 day period. This in itself is a good step forward, as the time limit provided would be enough to create a detailed budget that could then be debated, trimmed or added to, and done the right way. Any measure that kills the rhetoric and commands the real work to be done is a solid step back to governance.*
I like this idea. A lot. For the first time, if this resolution is passed, it would put the brinksmanship games' consequences squarely on the shoulders of those who are responsible. Let them do without the paychecks for a change, and we may actually see Congress going to work seriously for the first time in years. Until now, they have held everyone else hostage but themselves.
Kudos to the Republicans who came up with this one! We will all see just who is on the job as a servant of the people and who's working to line their pockets first.
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