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Worst U.S. Senate in History? You bet.
Senate Democratic leaders do not plan to propose a budget this year, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters Friday, saying that they had already done so with the debt-ceiling agreement.
We do not need to bring a budget to the floor this year its done, we dont need to do it, Reid said, according to The Hill.
Democrats have said that the agreement reached to raise the debt ceiling set spending for Fiscal Year 2012.
North Dakota Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad, chairman of the Budget Committee, has said he will mark up a budget resolution this year, per an agreement he made with Budget Committee ranking member and Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions.
Technically, Conrad marking up a budget resolution, but not ever bringing it to the floor, per Reids comments, does not violate that agreement, conceded a Republican aide, but the staffer went on to blast Reids comment.
Whats the point of marking up a budget if youre not going to bring it to the floor for debate and vote? fumed the Republican aide.
Its been more than 1,000 days since Senate Democrats have offered a budget plan to the American people. Now, once again, the Senates ineffectual Democrat majority balks at the task of leadership, said Sessions in a statement.
He obviously continues in his belief that it would be politically foolish for his members to go on record in support of any long-term vision. But by refusing to lay out a budget plan for public examinationa fact no one can denythe Democrat Senate has forfeited the high privilege to lead this chamber, he went on.
Read more: Harry Reid | Senate Budget | Jeff Sessions | The Daily Caller
Senate Democratic leaders do not plan to propose a budget this year, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters Friday, saying that they had already done so with the debt-ceiling agreement.
We do not need to bring a budget to the floor this year its done, we dont need to do it, Reid said, according to The Hill.
Democrats have said that the agreement reached to raise the debt ceiling set spending for Fiscal Year 2012.
North Dakota Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad, chairman of the Budget Committee, has said he will mark up a budget resolution this year, per an agreement he made with Budget Committee ranking member and Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions.
Technically, Conrad marking up a budget resolution, but not ever bringing it to the floor, per Reids comments, does not violate that agreement, conceded a Republican aide, but the staffer went on to blast Reids comment.
Whats the point of marking up a budget if youre not going to bring it to the floor for debate and vote? fumed the Republican aide.
Its been more than 1,000 days since Senate Democrats have offered a budget plan to the American people. Now, once again, the Senates ineffectual Democrat majority balks at the task of leadership, said Sessions in a statement.
He obviously continues in his belief that it would be politically foolish for his members to go on record in support of any long-term vision. But by refusing to lay out a budget plan for public examinationa fact no one can denythe Democrat Senate has forfeited the high privilege to lead this chamber, he went on.
Read more: Harry Reid | Senate Budget | Jeff Sessions | The Daily Caller