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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...

Congress is commencing a debate on the President’s $3.6 trillion budget. It represents efforts by the left to radically expand the size and scope of the federal government. President Barack Obama said last week that each generation of Americans has “found the capacity to not only endure, but to prosper -- to discover great opportunity in the midst of great crisis.” Our nation is in great crisis, and conservatives need to ensure that President Obama doesn’t use the current economic crisis as an opportunity to dramatically expand government. Last week, House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence announced that House Republicans...

Former US president Bill Clinton sharply criticised George W. Bush for the Iraq War and the handling of Hurricane Katrina, and voiced alarm at the swelling US budget deficit. Breaking with tradition under which US presidents mute criticisms of their successors, Clinton said the Bush administration had decided to invade Iraq "virtually alone and before UN inspections were completed, with no real urgency, no evidence that there were weapons of mass destruction." The Iraq war diverted US attention from the war on terrorism "and undermined the support that we might have had," Bush said in an interview with an ABC's...

'Congress should reject this budget,' mainline leaders say ENS 042805-1 Thursday, April 28, 2005 [Episcopal News Service] In response to the FY 2006 Budget Conference Report to be considered by Congress and as a follow-up to a March 8, 2005 press conference calling the President's FY '06 Budget "unjust," five mainline denominational leaders issued the following statement: On March 8 we, as leaders of the Episcopal Church USA, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Presbyterian Church (USA), United Church of Christ, and United Methodist Church General Board of Church and Society, issued a joint statement questioning the priorities of President Bush's...