Can there be a more fruitful source of dispute, or a kind of dispute more difficult to be settled? — James Madison speaking at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 on the spending bill battles between the House and Senate that would occur. As the “Government Shutdown” puppet show continues its run in Washington, D.C., there is power in the Constitution to close down the entire production. Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution requires that “all bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives, but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other bills.”...