The current budget process was enacted in 1975 or 1976. She's right with respect to the House, since its enactment the House has always passed a their own Budget. Now, there have been a number of times when the House & Senate failed to get a Budget out of Conference Committee, and then had to rely on the House passing a budget resolution, just like last night.
The "deem & pass" aspect is odd as well. I think - but am not positive - that those previous budget resolution were passed on a simple floor vote.
The other side has effectively told us F#$% you and your rights ... POWER GRAB.
This is an act of treason.
“Never before — since the creation of the Congressional budget process — has the House failed to pass a budget, failed to propose a budget then deemed the non-existent budget as passed as a means to avoid a direct, recorded vote on a budget, but still allow Congress to spend taxpayer money.”
This reads like an enumerated grievance from the Declaration.
I’m attaching a sheet of paper to my federal tax return that deems my taxes to have been paid.
Are there any fire-in-the-belly, freedom-loving, patriot republicans left in Washington? No, I didn’t think so. Their silence is deafening.
Upon my return today, they certainly have not not disappointed. Right out of the gate, they appear morbidly insane and completely out of control. Just another day like all the others. HO HUM.
US Congress...could give lessons to a Roman Senate...
I also told him it was shameful to attach this to a war spending bill and that it was a shame that the House didn't have the balls to put up a budget and pass it like they normally do.
I finished be telling hem that at least one of the Congressman's constituents is watching what he is doing and that I didn't like what I was seeing.
UNBELIEVABLE!
When a monarch deemed that a law be executed, he or she was ruling by decree.
Democrats are trying to rule by decree just like the old days when everyone had to simply obey and shut their mouths...or else.
Do I understand this correctly?
They passed a 1.1 Trillion dollar budget without a budget?
That is, did they just vote themselves the authority to fill in the blanks and spend 1.1 Trillion dollars in any way they see fit?
Someone please tell me I misunderstand what they did. Please.
One might predict that the American people would be up in arms over this.
You will get the amount of tyranny that you are willing to tolerate.
(sounds of crickets in the distance)
Alas, Americans are sheepish drones now.
I miss real Americans, I do.
Oh, and this is the test that will determine if this is how the government will be run from now on, BTW.
A a practical matter... the American dollar is toast. Who in their right mind would do business with these crazy idiots?
Maybe we can pick up enough seats in the next election and “deem” obama out of office.
And we could “deem” all the commie dems out, too.
The existence or lack thereof of a "budget" is irrelevant, and a "deemed" budget resolution has no legal force any more than the resolution itself does.
The only thing that enables the expenditure of funds is the passage by both houses, signed into law by the president, a bill appropriating funds to be expended. Simultaneously each house must also pass an authorizing bill authorizing the departments to expend funds that are appropriated. Again each of these has to be signed into law by the president. It is a dizzyingly complex process, and this kabuki dance is gone through each year while the taxpayers are fleeced ever and every more by the inability of anyone to actually understand all of this. But it is a well scripted kabuki dance.
That they cannot even pass a budget resolution shows the level of incompetence to which they have sunk, but it is of no legal significance.