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  • House Democrats ‘Deem’ Faux $1.1 Trillion Budget ‘as Passed’

    07/02/2010 6:15:43 AM PDT · by opentalk · 157 replies · 4+ views
    Human Events ^ | July 2, 2010 | Connie Hair
    Last night, as part of a procedural vote on the emergency war supplemental bill, House Democrats attached a document that “deemed as passed” a non-existent $1.12 trillion budget. The execution of the “deeming” document allows Democrats to start spending money for Fiscal Year 2011 without the pesky constraints of a budget. The procedural vote passed 215-210 with no Republicans voting in favor and 38 Democrats crossing the aisle to vote against deeming the faux budget resolution passed. Never before -- since the creation of the Congressional budget process -- has the House failed to pass a budget, failed to propose...