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"Historic Failure" to Pass Appropriations Bills
Posted by: Congressman Jerry Lewis (CA - 41) (07-25-2008, 01:45 PM)
| Not once since before the 1950s has Congress failed to pass a single appropriations bill by the August recess. Even with outstanding veto threats in 2000 and 1992 – final years of the Clinton and Bush Administrations, respectively – the House and Senate still managed to pass the majority of their appropriations bills and have them signed into law. This kind of epic failure by Congress is a once in a lifetime event. Senator Appropriations Ranking Republican Senator Thad Cochran and I agree that this is not only an irresponsible way to run government, but will have a catastrophic effect on federal programs and the people they serve across the country. The Democrats’ failure to pass these funding bills will force critical programs and projects - such as new housing assistance for returning veterans, 2000 new border security agents, and new grant funding for local police and fire departments - to go unfunded this year. What will happen to these programs in the future remains ambiguous.Moreover, halting the Appropriations process means that critical provisions to lower gas prices – such as lifting the moratorium on energy exploration in the outer continental shelf or removing language that restricts domestic oil shale development – will not receive an up or down vote, nor even be considered by either Committee.American families don’t have the option of putting off their bills until next year, so why should Congress? Once again, the Democrat majority has put politics above people, and it has resulted in one of the largest legislative failures in a century. |
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