Posted on 06/26/2025 2:31:29 PM PDT by RandFan
@TheoVon
Omnibus bills and why they suck w/ @RepThomasMassie
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Some inside baseball for you with my favorite House member.
mASSie would definitely know a thing or two about sucking.
Massie is 110% correct
Omnibus bills are how Fed.gov, and Democrats, maintain and grow corruption and the deep-state.
Packing 10, 20 or even more items into one vote is to guarantee bloat and dysfunction
Not going to watch the video, but I’ve often thought that a better way to do things would be to start the fiscal year by passing a budget that is 90% of the previous year’s budget. Then they could spend the rest of the year haggling over the last 10%—more or less. That way, if they did it right, there would be less danger of a government shutdown, and the fiscal soundness or unsoundness of the remaining details might be more obvious.
I would even more prefer, during times like these, that there be no automatic spending increases, and the government decides on a simple 1% cut across the board. Families have to make such decisions during tough times. Their government should, too.
Not going to watch the video, but I’ve often thought that a better way to do things would be to start the fiscal year by passing a budget that is 90% of the previous year’s budget. Then they could spend the rest of the year haggling over the last 10%—more or less. That way, if they did it right, there would be less danger of a government shutdown, and the fiscal soundness or unsoundness of the remaining details might be more obvious.
I would even more prefer, during times like these, that there be no automatic spending increases, and the government decides on a simple 1% cut across the board. Families have to make such decisions during tough times. Their government should, too.
I don’t know what I hate more—Ominbus bills or Omnibus bills.
Lol.
Absolutely correct. This dereliction of duty and responsibility in both House & Senate is disgraceful.
There’s no justification for not separating these Omnibus Bills into related components and voting on them separately. Except that both sides want their version on pork spending that won’t stand on its own merits.
1%!!??? No, balance the budget now! They don’t want to and they know it.
It’s a Solzhenitsyn moment in which we know they’re lying, they know they’re lying, and they even know that we know they’re lying. And they still don’t care. No shame, no morality, nothing but contempt for everyone but themselves.
Very true and very eloquent you summed it up in one sentence
Yep.
That means however that the critters in Congress would have to take breaks now and then from their fundraising to actually cast votes.
I believe it was President Zachary Taylor who coined the term “omnibus bill,” for the measure that became the Compromise of 1850. Its critics likened it to an omnibus, a passenger-carrying wagon that was the forerunner to the modern bus. Taylor threatened to veto it, but his death precluded that.
Regular order appropriations bills, or shut it all down.
Yet he voted for them before.
Omnibus spending bills go back to at least 1840.
Congressman have always been crooked, but we got by because of our Christian heritage and they could not be open with it. Now they can.
The history is reconciliation bills have caused the party in power to lose the next election. This has happened everytime. I really don’t want Trump to have to deal with a democratic house or senate.
I never got a bill for riding the omnibus. I either paid for the ticket, or had a monthly pass. I prefer to ride in the automobile.
The last time Congress passed all 13 individual appropriations bills before the start of the fiscal year (October 1) was in 1994.
During Trump I, an Omnibus bill came across his desk.
Trump signed it while saying, “Don’t send another one of these bills again!”
Every congress person including Massie is a purist in some sense - demanding laws that fit their demands exactly, which they can never get. So “horse trading” becomes the norm and horrible omnibus bills, more so than amendments that are really off topic, have become the way Congress gets enough horses in the same stable.
I would like to see “pure bills” that do one single narrow thing and nothing else. I think that would be the right way for legislation. I know that is a pipe dream today and nothing can force Congress to change exact Congressional rules changes that no Congress is going to enact.
Wake up Massie, face reality.
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