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Budget? We Don' Need no Steenking Budget
Can't let politicians get away with thinking they aren't seedy for a day.House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said that Congress does not need an official federal budget because it can just adopt appropriations bills and authorization policies as needed to keep operating. Last Friday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), referencing the last debt ceiling deal, said, We do not need to bring a budget to the floor this year. Its done, we dont need to do it. They seem to be right. The debt ceiling increase deal last summer looks like it detaches revenue raising (which should include borrowing) from the House, where the Constitution put it, and gave it to the President, since it now takes new Conressional action to prevent the President from raising the debt ceiling. Have I interpreted that right? But I still don't see how this is satisfied (Art.1, Sect. 9 Clause 7): No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time. I guess 'time to time' can be in excess of 1000 days. Maybe Darth Vader Ginsberg is right, and this document is just not up to modern standards, like South Africa's. Posted by: Glenmore 2012-02-08 |
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