Sending individual funding bills to the Senate is regular order. Harry likes omnibus bills!

[cotton1706]

Reid talks as if the House sending individual bills is something unusual. Under the regular budget process, which we haven't had since 2009, the House would send individual bills to the senate for passage, conference and signature.

What Harry has gotten into the habit of, is bundling all these bills into omnibus bills for one vote. And the continuing resolutions have continued this government funding by one vote business.

We need to return to regular order, even without a budget being passed. So the House should continue to pass individual bills as if a budget was agreed to.

[csivils]

Exactly! Need to hear this out of DC. No budget means the CR debate becomes the budget debate.

[Paine in the Neck]

The bigger the bill the more mischief can be inserted.

[molson209]

Dems are sitting back and watching the GOP squirm again

[Ray76]

There hasn’t been a regular budget since the clown show coup in 2008.

[MrB]

Every funding bill should have a reference to the Article I, Section 8 clause that justifies the expenditure.

[TomGuy]

Harry likes omnibus bills!

Of course, he does.

The bigger the bill, the more 'stuff' they can hide inside it. That way, they have to pass it to find out what is in it.

Then, it is like Christmas or birthday presents: surprise after surprise after surprise after surprise.

[b4its2late]

Keep it up, one bill at a time and let the Senate vote up or down and allow the clown sign or veto.

[OneWingedShark]

The bigger the bill the more mischief can be inserted.

Oh, if I'd had some input into the Affordable Care Act the fun I could have done!
* Imagine a clause there that dissolved DC, and forced another district to be chosen on the borders of at least two states and not less than 500 miles from the location of the current district.
* Imagine a clause eliminating the USDA and FDA.
* Imagine a clause requiring all taxes funding it to be of equal operation on all people with no exemptions, credits, or subsidies, no exceptions.
* Imagine a clause which mandated federal agencies be closed in the eventuality that the ACA didn't have adequate funds.
* Imagine a clause which mandated that insider trading by congress be punished with forfeiture of all retirement benefits.

I mean, there's so much fun to be had if they have to pass a bill to find out what's in it, right?

[pfony1]

While we wait for the Senate to start begging the House to negotiate regarding passing a “clean” CR, the House should proceed to pass REGULAR appropriations bills and send them to the Senate.

The Senate prefers to pass “Continuing Resolutions” because such “omnibus” bills make it easier for the administration to create “slush funds” to pay for fraud in the next election.

IMHO, the House should debate and pass REGULAR appropriation bills and then chalenge (dare?) the Senate to do its Constitutional duty and complete the Annual Budget.

Ideally, Republicans will flood “talk shows” next week with quick, well-prepared debaters, who can make the media’s propaganda-pimps look as foolish as they are.

[Rapscallion]

Omnibus funding bills are a lazy-man's load. That approach hides the inability of congress to make decisions and provides stealth increases in our taxes. It is far more Constitutional to send over one appropriation at a time, plus or minus the amount of money congress in its "wisdom" decides. Stop omnibus appropriations.