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Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
No. of Recommendations: 1
There is a place for those, but it seems we spend most of our energy in crisis mode, trying to prevent a shutdown.
Is there a mechanism where we can force Congress to do its job and pass a proper budget? Executive order? Something else?
No. of Recommendations: 2
Is there a mechanism where we can force Congress to do its job and pass a proper budget? Executive order? Something else? = 1pg
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elections?
No. of Recommendations: 6
elections?
You elected the Crisis Queen. Please buy this Bible to avert the Democratic budget crisis.
No. of Recommendations: 3
Something else?
Heavy injections of common sense would probably be sufficient.
With the slim majorities we've worked with in this Congress, (50/50 in the Senate with the tie broken by the Vice President, and a literal handful of seats in the House) it's impossible to do anything without compromise. There are always a few in Congress that seem to think compromise is a bad word. They want their way or nothing. And since their way is unpalatable to the majority of Congress (on both sides of the aisle) we get the nothing option.
In this specific instance, there are a dozen or so GOP members of the House that refuse to vote for any CR on some made up grounds. That forces the rest of the GOP majority to compromise with Democrats to get a bill that can be passed. But that compromise can make a spending bill unpalatable to more Representatives. It's a doom loop. The Speaker has to perform a balancing act between getting a bill passed and keeping his or her job as Speaker.
One potential solution I can think of would be to require a new Congress to pass a 2 year budget before they can take up any other legislation. That would get budgeting out of the way with each Congress and keep the government operating. The budget could still be amended later as situations (or campaign promises) require.
--Peter
No. of Recommendations: 2
Easy. Elect more conservative Republicans.
No. of Recommendations: 3
I get that. But it would be good if you could order Congress to be in session until they hammer out a budget. No recess, no break, no holidays, no going home.
As I said, CRs have their place. But I agree with the folks who think we use them far too much, going from crisis to crisis. Self-inflicted crisis.
No. of Recommendations: 4
Apparently Biden signed it. As expected. So all this nonsense for what appeared to be the same legislation.
I'm traveling, so didn't follow this closely. But it sounds like it didn't change much since last week.
Still doesn't answer my original question.
Should be fun next time. There will be a next time, I'm sure. Probably in less than a year.
