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House Democrats æDeemÆ Faux $1.1 Trillion Budget æas PassedÆ
by Connie Hair

07/02/2010


Last night, as part of a procedural vote on the emergency war
supplemental bill, House Democrats attached a document that "deemed as
passed" a non-existent $1.12 trillion budget. The execution of the
"deeming" document allows Democrats to start spending money for Fiscal
Year 2011 without the pesky constraints of a budget.

The procedural vote passed 215-210 with no Republicans voting in favor
and 38 Democrats crossing the aisle to vote against deeming the faux
budget resolution passed.

Never before -- since the creation of the Congressional budget process --
has the House failed to pass a budget, failed to propose a budget then
deemed the non-existent budget as passed as a means to avoid a direct, recorded vote on a budget, but still allow Congress to spend taxpayer
money.



House Budget Committee Ranking Member Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) warned this
was the green light for Democrats to continue their out-of-control
spending virtually unchecked.

"Facing a record deficit and a tidal wave of debt, House Democrats
decided it was politically inconvenient to put forward a budget and
account for their fiscal recklessness. With no priorities and no
restraints, the spending, taxing, and borrowing will continue unchecked
for the coming fiscal year," Ryan said. "The so-called æbudget
enforcement resolutionÆ enforces no budget, but instead provides a green
light for the Appropriators to continue spending, exacerbating our
looming fiscal crisis."

As we reported on HUMAN EVENTS, CBO issued a dire warning about the long
term outlook for the budget.

"Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office rang the latest fiscal alarm
with the release of The Long-Term Budget Outlook," Ryan said. "Today, Congress again hit snooze. To avert a fiscal and economic calamity, Washington needs to wake up."

Key points from the House Republican Budget staff on the House
DemocratsÆ deeming resolution:

- This is not a budget. The measure fails to meet the most basic, commonly understood objectives of any budget. It does not set
congressional priorities; it does not align overall spending, tax,
deficit, and debt levels; and it does nothing to address the runaway
spending of Federal entitlement programs.
- It is not a æcongressional budget resolution.Æ The measure does
not satisfy even the most basic criteria of a budget resolution as set
forth in the Congressional Budget Act.
- It creates a deception of spending ærestraint.Æ While claiming restraint in discretionary spending, the resolution increases non-
emergency spending by $30 billion over 2010, and includes a number of
gimmicks that give a green light to higher spending.
- It continues relying on the flawed and over-sold pay-as-you-go [pay-go] procedure. Pay-go û which Democrats have used mainly to raise
taxes, and have ignored when it was inconvenient û does nothing to
reduce deficits or restrain spending growth in existing law.
- Outsourcing fiscal responsibilities. The measure is another hand-
off by the Democratic Majority of CongressÆs power of the purse û this
time relying on the Fiscal Commission created by the President to do CongressÆs job.


A full Republican Budget Committee staff analysis of the MajorityÆs
Budget Deemer: "An Admission of Fiscal Failure"

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