[Cheerio]

CRs should be made illegal. When was the last line by line appropriations bill signed?

How the federal budget is supposed to work and why it rarely does

By the end of spring, the real work on the budget begins. In the House and Senate appropriations committees, lawmakers begin poring over the 12 bills that make up the whole of the federal budget:

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies;
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies;
Defense;
Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies;
Financial Services and General Government;
Homeland Security;
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies;
Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies;
Legislative Branch;
Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies;
State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs; and Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies.

Each bill has its own subcommittee, whose job it is to pass their appointed appropriations bill, sending it to the full committee and eventually onto the floor for a full vote. These bills are supposed to conform to the overall spending framework already set in the budget resolution.

BUT only 28% is even to be debated!!!! The rest is on autopilot!

[TheConservativeTejano]

Partner, is this why we are hearing rumors that Paul Ryno is going to retire early as the Speaker.

The Speaker has to come up with a budget and he never has and this why we are always in a perpetual CR that never ends.

Actually, we never have had a good Speaker since Newt Gingrich. Lets see we have had the Closet Homo Hasterrt, Nancy Pelousy, the drunkard John Boehner, and now Paul Ryno.

The next Speaker of the House should be able to get a budget from Congress. Make those folks work to whatever it takes to get a Budget. This is in the Constitution of the United States of America. Our Founding Fathers knew that it was going to be hard work which is something these guys in the House have seldom seen hard work before.

Thanks for the information on the CR but it still amazes me that we can not come up with a budget.