So, we are at or about 1,055 days since the U.S. Senate, led by Sen. Harry Reid (D) NV. passed a federal budget, required annually by the Constitution. Three years, Harry, you and your fellow libs have failed in your constitutional duty.
But now comes a fellow Democrat, Rep. Jim Cooper, of my State of Tennessee with a solution. Mr. Cooper proposes that lawmakers pay be cut off if a budget and all 12 spending bills financing government agencies is not enacted each year by the October 1 deadline, the beginning of the fiscal year. Now, while this bill probably doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of being passed, after all, the same guys who won't do their job and pass a budget certainly are not going to pass a bill taking away their gravy-train, it does seem to have some support among a few on the Hill. To be sure, I am not in the habit of celebrating the politics of the left, but to be fair KUDOS to Rep. Jim Cooper (D) TN. for having the guts that his fellow Democrats in the Senate seem to lack.
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