How Convenient - House will not do a budget this year

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volinbham

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Looks like they will wait until after the November elections -- first time since 1976 (when the rules changed) that the House will not produce a budget.

Steny Hoyer: No budget this year - Simmi Aujla - POLITICO.com
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Gotta love this little gem:

"If you can't budget, you can't govern," Rep. John Spratt Jr., D-S.C., proclaimed in 2006 when the House GOP leadership chose to dispense with passing a budget resolution.

Now that the Dems run the House, Spratt is chairman of its Budget Committee and the April 15 deadline for passing a budget resolution is a niggling detail, easily ignored. House Democrats have decided to not even try to pass a budget resolution before this fiscal year expires on Sept. 30 -- and may well delay passage until after the November elections.

As the congressional newspaper The Hill reported Monday, Spratt announced that in lieu of a 2011 budget resolution, the House is likely to pass a "functional equivalent" measure that leaves out inconvenient budget numbers -- most notably an annual operating deficit averaging around $1 trillion over the next five to 10 years.
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RealClearPolitics - If You Can't Budget, You Can't Govern
 
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I just can't understand why this would be the case. I certainly can't imagine that the administration is involved in any way.
 
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my office is saving money by doing virtual meetings instead of flying to DC. we ordered these huge flat-panel TVs and microphone equipment, and they have been sitting in their boxes for the last 3 months. not sure when we will start saving taxpayer dollars.
 
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Just when things couldn't get any more ridiculous... They do.


There should be constitutional amendment requiring balanced budgets except in the most extreme of circumstances.
 
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IPorange said:
Just when things couldn't get any more ridiculous... They do.


There should be constitutional amendment requiring balanced budgets except in the most extreme of circumstances.
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As divided as Americans seem to be these days, I'd be surprised if you could get any Constitutional amendments passed. :unsure:
 
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J-P said:
As divided as Americans seem to be these days, I'd be surprised if you could get any Constitutional amendments passed. :unsure:
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It's not as divided as the media points out. it just we have a thug in the white house and a ***** as congress leader.
 
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J-P said:
Welcome to where I've been since Bill Clinton got elected..... twice! :eek:hmy:
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I'd take Clinton (either one) over the current guy in a heartbeat. I'd probably take him over W as well provided the Congress was R.
 
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volinbham said:
I'd take Clinton (either one) over the current guy in a heartbeat. I'd probably take him over W as well provided the Congress was R.
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I would add, provided the Congress was the R Congress we had during Bill's second term, not the large number of spineless Rs we have in Congress today. Not all of them are spineless, but a great majority appear to be.
 
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