re: #31 stabby

Isn’t it true that money bills have to start in the House?

What happens if we don’t have any.

Come on, does no one know our government (better than me, please)?

What are the rules, what are we in for?

re: #46 aagcobb

I don’t believe that any budget has passed for several years. Federal programs have continued anyway. The country will muddle through somehow.

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.