You are forgetting that we only have the House, and to get the results we want we need the entire Congress, which is the House and the Senate
April 23, 2009 was the last time that the democRat controlled Senate has passed a budget.
“You are forgetting that we only have the House, and to get the results we want we need the entire Congress . . .”
Per the Constitution, all spending bills originate in the House. If a spending bill does not pass the House, the fund are not appropriated and cannot be spent. The Republicans in the House have the choice of not sending bills to the Senate to fund specific agencies or programs. The Senate and President cannot force the House to send the Senate a spending bill. Therefore, the Constitution allows the House, on its own, to defund agencies.
Unfortunately Mr. Boehner and the House Republicans have acquiesced to the Democrat budget games by agreeing to pass continuing resolutions preserving spending at current levels plus a % increase. They abdicated their Constitutional responsibility to send individual spending bills to the Senate for approval. They surrendered to Obama and Harry Reid instead of putting up a fight by sending to the Senate for a vote spending bills with real cuts.
I do have a difficult time understanding why people feel Romney will be fiscally responsible. I clearly recall George W. Bush couldn’t find his veto pen when he had a Republican House spending $500 million for bridges to nowhere, huge increases in education spending, and a Medicare prescription drug program. The national debt doubled on Mr. Bush’s watch. Romney’s record as Governor of Massachusetts was similar to Bush’s record as President he significantly increased the debt. It is hard for me to conceive why Mr. Romney, a liberal Republican, would be any more fiscally prudent than George W. Bush a purported conservative Republican. Based on the behavior of the last two years it is hard for me to believe the House Republicans will suddenly start reigning in spending when they’ve had the power not to spend for almost two years. Given a Republican controlled Senate will include personalities such as John McCain, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Thad Cochran, Lamar Alexander, and Charles Grassley I have little hope of a Republican Senate led by Mitch McConnell being hard nosed on spending.