119th Congress or Red Wave In Adult Land

acesfull86 said:
https://reason.com/2023/03/21/the-budget-battle-book/

This mad end-of-year rush has become the norm. Congress spends all year avoiding what is arguably its primary responsibility: crafting and passing a budget.

Ideally, the process moves in a thoughtful and orderly fashion over the course of a year, in what is often called "regular order." This process was codified by the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, which created both the Congressional Budget Office and the modern budgeting process.

Under regular order, the president releases a budget proposal early in the year, Congress passes a budget resolution no later than mid-April, and appropriations committees draw up spending bills for a dozen or so spending categories. Each of those is debated and voted on one at a time, with enough time to read, debate, and amend the bills. All of this is supposed to happen before October 1, the beginning of the federal government's fiscal year.

Congress has not completed all of the steps in the appropriations process on time since 1996. Many years, Congress has passed no budget resolution at all. Instead, the process has become increasingly centralized, with party leadership drawing up "omnibus" spending packages that combine all the appropriations bills into a single piece of megalegislation, which lawmakers are given essentially no time to read or debate. Because the budget bill is considered must-pass legislation, it has become a Christmas tree on which to hang unrelated provisions.



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Does this really have to be so hard? Does anyone not want what’s bolded?
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Thats all Gaetz and crew wanted in the initial speaker fight.

But the special interests don't want this because its much easier to embed handouts in an omnibus as opposed to individual spending bills and have representatives show their true colors without hiding behind the 1-5% of an omnibus that is useful.
 
acesfull86 said:
Make Amash the Speaker
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I’d be on board with this given the circumstances. For all of the ways I disagree with him on policy, he’s consistently remained principled. It’ll never happen as the far-right won’t vote for someone who called out Trump the way he has, but he’d be a good option if I can’t have Speaker Jeffries.
 
mqt said:
I’d be on board with this given the circumstances. For all of the ways I disagree with him on policy, he’s consistently remained principled. It’ll never happen as the far-right won’t vote for someone who called out Trump the way he has, but he’d be a good option if I can’t have Speaker Jeffries.
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"Far-Right"

Which members are part of the "Far-Right" and what makes them in that basket?
 
mqt said:
I’d be on board with this given the circumstances. For all of the ways I disagree with him on policy, he’s consistently remained principled. It’ll never happen as the far-right won’t vote for someone who called out Trump the way he has, but he’d be a good option if I can’t have Speaker Jeffries.
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A babysitter with no voting power who’s there solely to make the House follow the rules is really all we need in a Speaker.

Just do your ****ing jobs!
 
thethe said:
"Far-Right"

Which members are part of the "Far-Right" and what makes them in that basket?
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You’re welcome to feign offense at me suggesting there are far-right members of Congress, but you absolutely know that Amash’s views on Trump will make him a non-starter for guys like Gaetz and Biggs. I also don’t think Amash has any chance of getting Dems to support him given his policy stances. I think he’s a good option, I just don’t think he has any path to enough votes.
 
mqt said:
You’re welcome to feign offense at me suggesting there are far-right members of Congress, but you absolutely know that Amash’s views on Trump will make him a non-starter for guys like Gaetz and Biggs. I also don’t think Amash has any chance of getting Dems to support him given his policy stances. I think he’s a good option, I just don’t think he has any path to enough votes.
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You haven't answered the question aside from hinting that you are far right if you support Trump. Is that your position or do you have other identifying qualities of what makes someone 'Far-Right'?
 
the only criteria that matters here...

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good thing McCarthy endorsed him last week!
 
thethe said:
The uniparty can't allow this because they need to sneak in their slush funds to Ukraine.

Thats why everyone is very pissed at Gaetz.
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I think the members of the House who favor aid to Ukraine would be happy to have an opportunity to introduce an amendment in broad daylight authorizing such aid. Hopefully, whoever is speaker will agree to a process that allows such a vote.
 
nsacpi said:
I think the members of the House who favor aid to Ukraine would be happy to have an opportunity to introduce an amendment in broad daylight authorizing such aid. Hopefully, whoever is speaker will agree to a process that allows such a vote.
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Ah BL - YOu are going to see a much larger vote against the funds than you'd expect and those that do vote for it will pay come election time.
 
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