And you really believe that he had nothing to do with the design of these bills?
yet you seem to believe he totally crafted it on his own
how many times do i have to tell you,
he may have had input on it, but it was written in CONGRESS
thus Obama is not and was not the "author" of it
No, you did tell that before.
Who proposed this bill then? Was Obama & his administration not also proposing this bill to congress?
And yes I think Obama, his administration and some democrat friends (senators for example) designed this bill. Who else would have done it?
Nanci Pelosi on her own?
The President has certain powers given him by the constitution, and one of those powers is not the power of the budget or impose taxation. That power resides in the house, and not even in the Senate. The powers the Senate has that the House doesn't have is the power of advise and consent to appointments made by the president and power to approve treaties (That is because Senators represent individual states in the Federal Congress and the states have given up their sovereignty to the Federal Government)
Presidents do propose how the departments of the Federal goverment's departments spend and so they propose a budget to the House. Hence the phrase: "The President proposes, and the Congress disposes.
Since the Senate, (as finally will the president, unless he vetos it) has to vote on any budget measure, they (Senate) get into the process after the house comes up with their version, and it becomes a matter of negotiation for a final result in a Conference Committee.
The power of the purse; to appropriate and spend through legislation is clearly defined by the Constitution to lie within the House of Representatives (sans Senate) and the Congress which includes both the House and the Senate:
Article I
Section 7.
All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other Bills.
Section 8.
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
The House members no doubt already had a lot of "skin in the game' when it came to these taxing and spending measures, had done it before as a body, and the Administration being new it let them have their head, probably with some conferences between them to set up some goals. If the President and his aides had written the bill it would have all been done over again by the house so the quickest way to get it done was to follow s.o.p.
Congress people divide up bills like this with their staff people, disecting it into manageable parts, and then synthesize it into one piece of legislation, this one containing some 1175 pages of text.
