https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articl...34430.html

Sounds like McConnell and Ryan aren't doing their job.

Its playing right into the Democrat's hands. If you do the dozen appropriation bills separately, it doesn't create the urgency and limits the power of the minority.

"Members of Congress returned from the Fourth of July recess this week facing a series of challenging fiscal issues with looming deadlines and no agreed-upon plan to avoid potentially disastrous outcomes.

While the focus over the holiday and into this week has been whether Senate Republicans can pass their Obamacare repeal legislation, lawmakers have an increasingly tight timeline to speed through a consolidated budget and appropriations process and raise the debt ceiling. So far, there is no clear strategy to avoid the brinksmanship that has come to define Washington, D.C., in general, and Capitol Hill, in particular.

Neither the House nor the Senate has passed a budget resolution for Fiscal Year 2018 despite the deadline to do so passing months ago. Neither chamber has yet considered a single appropriations bill, leaving them far behind schedule. Republican members have yet to coalesce around a strategy for raising the debt ceiling – or even determine when they plan to lift it.  

Though a government shutdown deadline of September 30 and a debt limit deadline sometime in October may seem distant, the House has only 13 legislative days before the annual August recess, and only 25 legislative days between now and October 1. The Senate has a slightly larger buffer: 14 legislative days before August, and 31 before the fiscal year ends...."

#norecess

it's pretty dayum simple in a non election year....

Seems like if there is no budget, the House and Senate shouldn't get paid.

(07-11-2017 08:53 AM)bullet Wrote:  Seems like if there is no budget, the House and Senate shouldn't get paid.

they'll get fired....obviously, not directly the commander in chief....but indirectly

working class people are sick of the rhetoric....

they're sick of the east/west coast liar media.....

they're just sick of all the hem/haw bullshite.....

there is no doubt that a massive rollover will occur in personnel (I highly doubt party change +/- a couple in the senate and a handful in the house)

the republicans have an opportunity to create valuable economic policy that can improve our current wealth/jobs gap......if they don't, new faces will happen in '18.....

The Republicans who still think they are playing a football game with no clock need to be hurled out of office.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/07/...laced.html

Cruz is only talking about healthcare, but its the right idea-no recess until healthcare bill passed.

Real world, you work more hours to get your job done or you don't have a job.

(07-11-2017 09:40 AM)bullet Wrote:  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/07/...laced.html

Cruz is only talking about healthcare, but its the right idea-no recess until healthcare bill passed.

Real world, you work more hours to get your job done or you don't have a job.

we the people make up their 'unionized' labor force.....

I didn't like him as a candidate for potus, but as the potential next sotus appointee or his remaining in his current position, I'm all in!

#SMART

If I were Trump I'd be on TV every night demanding they stay in session until a budget is passed. They all hate him anyways, might as well call for their heads if they can't pass a budget.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-repub...ed-agenda/

Sounds like they are at least delaying the recess. Two week delay for Senate.

Part 2 of 4: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articl...34438.html

"...Both parties have struggled to pass budgets in recent years, and have been forced to negotiate bipartisan, two-year agreements to boost spending, thus avoiding massive across-the-board cuts that both parties oppose but are mandated by law. All 12 appropriations measures have passed on time (by Oct. 1) just four times since 1974 – and more than a dozen times, no appropriations measure became law on time. The Senate hasn’t passed one by the deadline since 2011.  
“It’s broken. It is terribly broken, and for 43 years people have not done anything about it,” Republican Sen. Mike Rounds said angrily in an interview last month...."