re: #62 Decatur Deb

re: #46 aagcobb

In the absence of a ‘real’ budget, they pass a ‘continuing resolution’., an authorization to continue at present or slightly altered spending levels. A few times (Newt) they tried to force the issue, but had to act within a few days or weeks. I worked through a couple of these, and only had trouble once, when the Army failed to come through to our Italian landlord’s rent. On one occasion they “sent us home for a day” but we came to work anyway, and were paid when congress got its act sort of together.

The only problem with that is the sequester which has massive spending cuts which will seriously negatively impact the economy for several months.