Posted on 01/24/2013 9:00:29 PM PST by SeekAndFind
/johnny
‘No Budget’ is UNCONSTITUTIONAL! Don’t withhold Reid’s pay.. IMPEACH HIM FOR VIOLATING HIS OATH OF OFFICE.
If we can install a president with a fake Hawaii BC, then what else can also be ignored from the constitution?
HA-HA, read carefully,
It only delays their pay it doesn’t cut any of it.
So this argument is DOA.
The bill does not alter the rate of compensation. It merely sets up a condition on when and under what conditions the compensation will be issued.
Its unconstitutional imo. And given that voters don’t know the Constitution, “No budget, no pay” is a publicity stunt imo.
This is actually quite simple. The “compensation for services...” is not being changed. Just the compensation for NO services!
This is actually quite simple. The “compensation for services...” is not being changed. Just the compensation for NO services!
They should just be fired.
They are not doing their job.
Of course we will get a large hearing over why no one was going in the Hall of Fame,
Investigate why Hockey started late
And countless other ‘important issues - oh yes, there will definitely be some legislation inre the Notre Dame football player - not that Katy Couric got involved.
Maybe the guy will show up with his NEW invisible girl friend?
Of course we laugh at the invisible girl friend yet have NO comment over the invisible money these guys are spending.
Always marveled over how a pol will say ‘We are broke’ etc then a few months later there is a 10 million buck surplus, then when agencies want it, it mysteriously disappears until the pol needs another bump...
Being a business owner, the shelf life of my bookkeeper would be over the day he FOUND 10 mill laying around, real or imagined.
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No budget, no pay is a publicity stunt imo.
Just another “theatrics ploy” by these morons. It’s not unlike the so-called “super committee” that was supposed to resolve the debt crisis. These are all simply mechanisms for avoiding doing the hard work required to fix a mess that they created. You have to wonder just how long they can keep kicking the can down the road.
“... I support the spirit of the bill, but it did not meet constitutional standards.”
SINCE WHEN did the congresscritter offal CARE about constitutionality????
Throw them ALL into the Boston Port (as opposed to tea)!
And, let’s STOP paying their salaries!
It’s another gimmick anyway. The pay goes into an escrow account, probably a high interest one and when a budget is reached they get the back pay. That’s not “NO PAY”.
As far as I’m concerned they should get NO pay until the national debt is paid.
Sorry folks—it would be unconstitutional. But we could cut back the pay to 1950s levels?
True it does not change their pay in any way. It just requires them to approve the budget before receiving it. There is nothing in the constitution that states when they must receive it.
Article I of the constitution requires a budget. So how could “no budget no pay” be unconstitutional. Technically there is no money to pay their salaries.
And I think they get the remainder of their pay at the end of the session next year regardless.
Plus I think its based on each house passing their own budget resolution (not a passed budget in law) and so just those House members pay is delayed for the House that doesnt pass one, not the other.
Its a symbolic act that counters the high congress disapproval and it gives the House a reason to go out on a limb with a resolution when the Senate refuses.
There is nothing in the Constitution regarding budgets. The budget requirement under the law stems from the Budget act of 1974.
And the other day Newt addressed the pay issue. He said you couldn’t anybody’s pay because of the Constitution, but it can be withheld until the end of the session or perhaps the end of the congress (can’t remember exactly what he said). So that’s either January 2014 or at the latest January 2015. No budget-no pay does have teeth.
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