Little-Acorn
07-12-2013, 10:39 AM
Pretty much everybody is aware of how the Democrats in the Senate refused to pass a budget, in defiance of Constitutional requirements, for nearly four long years. And they celebrated several months ago, when the Senate Dems finally passed one. Republicans in the House had passed budgets regularly, every year they had held the majority.
Well, guess what. CONGRESS HAS STILL NEVER PASSED A BUDGET in all that time. And that remains true today.
The Fed Govt only "has a budget" when the House and Senate both agree on the SAME budget, both pass that same budget, and the President signs it. And that still hasn't happened in four years. Republicans point out that the Dems still have no plans to balance the budget EVER, while Republican budgets are projected to balance within 10 years. Not perfect by any means, since debt keeps climbing until that time, but at least they're moving in the right direction.
But if you think the "budget crisis" came to an end when the Democrats at long last finally passed a "budget" in the Senate, think again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_debt-ceiling_crisis_of_2013 :
On March 21st, the house passed a FY 2014 budget that would balance the united states budget in 2023. This was a large improvement over their 2013 budget, which balanced in 2035, and especially over their 2012 budget, which balanced in 2063. It passed the house on a mostly party-line 221-207 vote. However, later that day, the Senate voted 59-40 to reject the house republican budget, so the budget did not become law.[14]
On March 23rd, the senate passed its own 2014 budget on a 50-49 vote. While the senate budget did include deficit reduction, it was projected to never result in a balanced budget, and was therefore criticized by republicans and even a few democrats. The House refused to hold a vote on the Senate Budget, and criticized both it and the president's budget (which was also projected to never result in a balanced budget), released in mid-april and never voted on by either house of congress, for failing to really address America's debt problem.[15]
Well, guess what. CONGRESS HAS STILL NEVER PASSED A BUDGET in all that time. And that remains true today.
The Fed Govt only "has a budget" when the House and Senate both agree on the SAME budget, both pass that same budget, and the President signs it. And that still hasn't happened in four years. Republicans point out that the Dems still have no plans to balance the budget EVER, while Republican budgets are projected to balance within 10 years. Not perfect by any means, since debt keeps climbing until that time, but at least they're moving in the right direction.
But if you think the "budget crisis" came to an end when the Democrats at long last finally passed a "budget" in the Senate, think again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_debt-ceiling_crisis_of_2013 :
On March 21st, the house passed a FY 2014 budget that would balance the united states budget in 2023. This was a large improvement over their 2013 budget, which balanced in 2035, and especially over their 2012 budget, which balanced in 2063. It passed the house on a mostly party-line 221-207 vote. However, later that day, the Senate voted 59-40 to reject the house republican budget, so the budget did not become law.[14]
On March 23rd, the senate passed its own 2014 budget on a 50-49 vote. While the senate budget did include deficit reduction, it was projected to never result in a balanced budget, and was therefore criticized by republicans and even a few democrats. The House refused to hold a vote on the Senate Budget, and criticized both it and the president's budget (which was also projected to never result in a balanced budget), released in mid-april and never voted on by either house of congress, for failing to really address America's debt problem.[15]