Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Byron York: GOP may use debt ceiling to force Harry Reid to pass budget | WashingtonExaminer.com#.UOuzC6y_MvM

 

Tuesday marks the 1,350th day since the Senate passed a budget. The law requires Congress to pass a budget every year, on the grounds that Americans deserve to know how the government plans to spend the trillions of taxpayer dollars it collects, along with dollars it borrows at the taxpayers' expense. But Majority Leader Harry Reid, who last allowed a budget through the Senate in April 2009, has ignored the law since then.

There's no mystery why. The budget passed by large Democratic majorities in the first months of the Obama administration had hugely elevated levels of spending in it. By not passing a new spending plan since, Reid has in effect made those levels the new budgetary baseline. Congress has kept the government going with continuing resolutions based on the last budget signed into law.

Byron York: GOP may use debt ceiling to force Harry Reid to pass budget | WashingtonExaminer.com#.UOuzC6y_MvM

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