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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2285075, member: 66&quot;]Sounds like a good place for it to stay stuck.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>True, but they don&#039;t want to have to deal with those things, they are difficult, controversial, and have political consequences.&nbsp; They would much rather kick them down the road for a later time and deal with minutia instead.&nbsp; Why do you think nothing of importance ever gets done on time.&nbsp; BY LAW the Congress has to pass a budget every year by Sept 30th.&nbsp; They have only actually passed two budgets in something like the past 30 years and neither of those was on time.&nbsp; The rest of the time we have operated on &quot;continuing resolutions&quot;.&nbsp; The 2016 budget was due Sept 30th 2015, it is now Dec 1st and we are under a continuing resolution that was passed a couple weeks ago and which will expire next week.&nbsp; Sometime around the 7th they will pass another resolution that will last till some time in January.&nbsp; Then when they come back from their Christmas, they will start working on another one.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the meantime they will pass all kinds of resolutions, national this or that days, hold hearings, anything except get their actual work done.&nbsp; (I believe under the Constitution the only bills the Congress actually HAS to pass each year are the Budget and the 13 appropriations bills.&nbsp; Anything else they do is surplus.&nbsp; They&#039;ve done lots of surplus, aren&#039;t passing budgets, and spend 14 to 16 months rolling the 13 appropriations bills into one giant omnibus spending bill.&nbsp; Then start over.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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