GOP Senators Object: No Spending Bills Without A Budget
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Uploaded by BudgetGOP on Jul 15, 2011
According to the Congressional Budget Act, Congress may not appropriate money for any fiscal year without first passing a budget, which serves as a concrete plan for spending, borrowing, and taxing. Despite this prohibition, Senate Democrats—who have refused to pass a budget for 807 days or make one public at all this year—attempted to move a spending bill on the floor yesterday. In response, Budget Committee Ranking Member Jeff Sessions led his Republican colleagues in a period of extended debate, calling for Congress to fulfill its legal duty to present and adopt a budget (by April 15th of each year).
Sessions raised a point of order [303(c)], which initiated the debate and a vote on whether to uphold or override the legal requirement from the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
In a landmark vote, Sessions' point of order was supported by 40 Republican Senators to prevent consideration of the appropriations measure (4 GOP Senators were not present to vote), which is particularly noteworthy given that the underlying bill had broad bipartisan support. Under current law, Sessions' point of order requires a majority of Senators to be sustained, so it fell short, but Sessions is also pushing forward a measure to raise the threshold to 60 votes in order to violate the Budget Act requirement.
The Republican Senators in this video, in order of appearance, are Sen. Sessions, Sen. Bob Corker, Sen. John Thune, Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. Mike Lee, Sen. Rand Paul, Sen. John Cornyn, Sen. Pat Toomey, Sen. Ron Johnson, and Sen. John Barrasso.
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This is what you get when you elect a man with ZERO EXPERIENCE ,,, Well, except for running his mouth.
Unklebillybob 4 months ago
It's now been 811 days since the Democrates have allowed a vote on a budget for the United States of America. That's two budgets we're missing! "Budgets? We don't need no stinking budgets..."
Truelove6 7 months ago