[Bailee]

“In case you forgot, the House controls one hundred percent of the spending and taxing authority of the Federal Government.”

But without IT passing in the Senate and being signed into law by the President. It is not worth the paper it is written on.

There in lies the problem no matter how much we want to cut the budget. The house is only 1/3 of the process needed.

[r9etb]

But without IT passing in the Senate and being signed into law by the President. It is not worth the paper it is written on.

Do you ever wonder how people who claim to revere the Constitution, can so consistently forget about something so basic as how a bill becomes law?

We all understand the desire to change things -- but it has to be done according the way our government works. And the political realities of how it works, are not entirely to our advantage right now.

[Prokopton]

There in lies the problem no matter how much we want to cut the budget. The house is only 1/3 of the process needed.

Wrong. All spending must start in the House. The Republicans control the House. They have 100% of the authority needed to stop funding of anything or everything. That our effete Republican "leadership" is too weak to use this power is the problem.

[RnMomof7]

There in lies the problem no matter how much we want to cut the budget. The house is only 1/3 of the process needed.

Maybe then they should not have made campaign promises they KNEW they could not keep. ...or maybe we should not have bothered to give it to them..maybe we should let the dems have it back if it is so unimportant