Could we really have expected much LESS from this Communist Congress ... ? They bust their (pun intentional) 'collective' asss to ram 'deathcare' down our national throat despite the fact that 67% of us did not (and still don't) want it, but when it comes to passing a BUDGET for the coming year, well, they don't know if they can (or want to) do that ... W. T. F. ... ? Okay - raise your hand if you're surprised by that. You. In the back ... What ... ? Of course they don't want to talk about money now - if they did, we'd know just how much they LIED when they told us how much 'savings' this 'deathcare' bill would produce and how 'cheap' it would be. They don't want us to know the REAL impact of their fraudulent plan - yet. Remember, they're still in office - for now.

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/35647.html

Congress sees no budget rush

By JONATHAN ALLEN | 4/12/10 4:16 AM EDT

Congress is poised to miss its April 15 deadline for finishing next year’s budget without even considering a draft in either chamber.

Unlike citizens’ tax-filing deadline, Congress’s mid-April benchmark is nonbinding. And members seem to be in no rush to get the process going.

Indeed, some Democratic insiders suspect that leaders will skip the budget process altogether this year — a way to avoid the political unpleasantness of voting on spending, deficits and taxes in an election year — or simply go through a few of the motions, without any real effort to complete the work.

Regan LaChapelle, a spokeswoman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), would go only so far as saying that the budget “is on a list of things that are possible for this work period” — a reference to the window that opens when members roll back into town Monday and closes when they leave around Memorial Day.

Congress has failed to adopt a final budget four times in the past 35 years — for fiscal years 1999, 2003, 2005 and 2007 — according to a recent Congressional Research Service report. If the House does not pass a first version of the budget resolution, it will be the first time since the implementation of the 1974 Budget Act, which governs the modern congressional budgeting process.

The practical consequences of failing to produce a federal budget for next year are about the same as they are for a family that doesn’t set a plan for income and spending: Congress doesn’t need a budget to tax or spend, but enforcing discipline is harder without one. And, like a family that misses out on efficiencies because it hasn’t taken a hard look at its finances, Congress can’t use reconciliation rules to cut the deficit if the House and the Senate don’t adopt the same budget.

So whats new ? they are also sending money to cuba . with out a treaty they are just changeing things as if all the old white folks that run this place were wrong . I hear that a lot now days but haveing been here these guys that are in charge now are not superior as they think . one reason they haven't done the budget is theres no money left to budget . between what they just throw out the window and the money they are sneaking to mexico [ social securty ] and now to cuba . theres just nothing left to budget ... welcome to the third world dumb a$$ ....

Congress has failed to adopt a final budget four times in the past 35 years — for fiscal years 1999, 2003, 2005 and 2007 — according to a recent Congressional Research Service report. If the House does not pass a first version of the budget resolution, it will be the first time since the implementation of the 1974 Budget Act, which governs the modern congressional budgeting process....

FOUR OTHER TIMES,,,nothing new and certainly not the end of life as we know it,,, but an interesting piece