It's emblematic of this Tea Party approach to not even try to work with Republican leadership, and focus more on stopping all procedures, all proposed legislation. They are the Caucus of NO. Where will that get us?
If our Representatives in the House choose to spend $750B on Defense and the Senate wants to spend $780B on defense, the House hasn’t stopped the Senate from doing anything. They simply have to send the Senate a bill that spends $750B on defense. It would be up to the Senate do decide to accept that or not. If they vote it down then the Senate has decided to stop it. The Senate can’t MAKE the House vote for a $780B defense bill.
It seems like you’re buying into the progressive argument that government perpetuates itself unless the House, Senate, Executive and SC all agree to change it. That’s simply not true. The opposite is true. Government stops unless they all agree. That is how our constitution was written and stands today.