jonny5
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FY2013 ends Oct 1. There have been no spending bills passed for FY2014. Which means the govt is not authorized to spend anything beyond mandatory spending programs after this date. Normally congress would have passed a budget in April as is required by law, but they didn't. The President submitted a budget, the House passed a budget, the Senate passed a budget, and then both ignored each other. The President has been busy playing golf and campaigning, congress has taken off on a 5 week vacation. They are scheduled to meet for a few days in September, and they also need to address the debt ceiling since no one is willing to balance the budget, much less pass one.
So the question is, why do you guys keep voting for these people?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/23/u...al-are-rapidly-fading.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&
So the question is, why do you guys keep voting for these people?
In search of a compromise, a group of Senate Republicans are scheduled to meet with top White House officials next Thursday, the first such meeting since Aug. 1, when negotiators promised that staff and high-level talks would continue throughout the month.
“Nothing has occurred since that time, nothing whatsoever,” said Senator Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee and one of the eight lawmakers involved in the talks.
Given the lack of progress, those involved say Speaker John A. Boehner will need to play a crucial role in finding an agreement. House Republican leaders consulted with their rank and file via a conference call Thursday night to sound out their ideas to avoid a fiscal crisis as early as Oct. 1. Mr. Boehner pressed gingerly for a straight short-term extension of funds to avoid an immediate government shutdown in October, but faced immediate opposition from conservatives demanding that funds be stripped from the health care law. One thought is to use a short-term spending bill to keep the government running into November, when Congress must raise the government’s statutory borrowing limit. That way, with both a debt default and government shutdown looming, Republicans could apply maximum pressure on the White House to either agree to scuttle President Obama’s health care law or accept significant changes in programs like Medicare and Social Security.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/23/u...al-are-rapidly-fading.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&