ThanQ.
The law qualifies the 45 days...
(3) “rescission bill” means a bill or joint resolution which
only rescinds, in whole or in part, budget authority proposed to
be rescinded in a special message transmitted by the President
under section 683 of this title, and upon which the Congress
completes action before the end of the first period of 45
calendar days of continuous session of the Congress after the
date on which the President’s message is received by the
Congress;
(5) continuity of a session of the Congress shall be considered
as broken only by an adjournment of the Congress sine die, and
the days on which either House is not in session because of an
adjournment of more than 3 days to a day certain shall be
excluded in the computation of the 45-day period referred to in
paragraph (3) of this section
Research shows that Congress rarely acts on the President’s recission or deferral requests.
Since most of us do not know the guts of this, I’m guessing it’s more than nuff said?
Next few of days should be interesting
You surely enjoy beating this horse. I already have read and discussed more than I ever wanted to know about it. Perhaps your next thought on the subject could be posted to someone else-Please?
One point to mention, Congress hasn’t really adjourned for a long time—they have this “fakery” still in session ritual —which I have assumed is to make sure the President can’t make any recess appointments.
If a new congress is sworn in prior to congress taking action on rescindment does that interrupt congressional continuity or does it formalize the rescission...