Posted on 07/04/2011 11:06:27 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
any year the congress doesn’t do much is a good thing for the citizens....making laws is how they keep their jobs..most laws we don’t want or need...
“112th Congress is one of the least productive in years”
I’ll take that! Better nothing than the damage the previous two did.
To be “productive” one must produce something.(other than steaming heaps of BS.)
Congress sees no budget rush
04/12/2010
Congress is poised to miss its April 15 deadline for finishing next years budget without even considering a draft in either chamber. Unlike citizens tax-filing deadline, Congresss mid-April benchmark is nonbinding. And members seem to be in no rush to get the process going. Indeed, some Democratic insiders suspect that leaders will skip the budget process altogether this year a way to avoid the political unpleasantness of voting on spending, deficits and taxes in an election year or simply go through a few of the motions, without any real effort to complete the work.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2491326/posts
Cancelled: There Will Be No Congressional Budget This Year
06/22/2010
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyers (D-MD) announcement this morning that House Democrats will not pass a budget this year failing to fulfill what he has called the most basic responsibility of governing...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2539377/posts
Krauthammer Challenges Shields: Where Is Democrat Budget? What’s Their Plan?
07/05/2011
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2744241/posts
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