Congress may surprise everyone and do the right thing
Lewis DiuguidThe House may actually do what voters have been demanding for ages: Stop paying people in Congress until they finally do their jobs.
The House is scheduled to vote this week on legislation to allow the government to slide under the debt limit by borrowing money through May 18. But the action comes with the stipulation that the pay of members of Congress be halted if the House and Senate fail to pass a budget by mid-April.
People are frustrated by the country operating without a formal budget. Voters have sought that paycheck hold for years as a way to get members of Congress to stop the politicking and do their jobs. But no one ever expected it to be proposed, let alone enacted.
Count on people watching to see what actually happens in the House and Senate.
Matt Henry
3 months, 4 weeks agoA ploy aimed at the “low-information” voter, the new voting block that all of our politicians are targeting.
The senate would have to approve it and President would have to sign it. Don’t hold your breath. And…
The bill calls for pay to be suspended until a budget is passed but then they will receive all that had been held. It’s not like they will be losing anything. Is there anyone in the Senate whose pay is actually important to them? And…
Where have the columns been about the Senate’s complete disregard for the law by not passing a budget in the last three years. Seems like maybe they would have had the “press” been doing their self-described jobs of being watchdogs for the people. Feels like they might have been more interested in this story were the Senate held by Republicans….
Phil Cardarella
3 months, 4 weeks agoSomehow i suspect that both Claire and Roy will still manage to get by.
How about we just don’t pay the House GOPers until they pass a budget that grown-ups will sign off on?
George Hunsucker
Northland
3 months, 3 weeks agogood joke phillie… not mentioning the senate which has not passed ANY BUDGET for over 1300 days…. you libs are a hoot phillie—keep up the funnies