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Milestones: Today Marks Exactly 3 1/2 Years Since the Senate Passed a Budget, $5T in New Debt

Oct. 29, 2012 1:56pm Becket Adams

It has been more than 1,200 days since the Democrat-controlled Senate passed a budget. Since then, we’ve added $5 trillion in new debt and the total amount has increased from $11.2 trillion to $16.2 trillion.

To commemorate this momentous occasion, the Senate Budget Committee Republican staff under Ranking Member Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) on Monday released the following chart illustrating the senate’s inaction:

“Federal law annually requires the Senate to present a budget in the Budget Committee for and to then bring that budget to the Senate floor for open and public amendment and debate, followed by the adoption of a budget plan (requiring 51 votes to pass),” the senator’s office explains.

“Yet, in a time of record deficits, weak economic growth, and an historic surge in federal welfare, the Senate Majority has declined to offer up any financial plan for nearly 1,300 days,” his office adds.

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ArmedAndReallyPissed
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 4:53pm
For God’s sakes, someone please give these hard working people a Vacation.

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- Bill Rowland
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 5:42am
  The solution is simple – remove Harry as majority leader – vote republican.
  
  OMG Nov 6, 2012
  
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- Obama Been Lauding
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 5:59am
  They are breaking “Federal Law”!!!!!!
  Why have they not been arrested, and been charged with breaking “Federal Law”???
  
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- Army_of_One
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 8:39am
  Obama been lauding, I agree with you, but who is going to arrest/prosecute them, eric holder??? He too is a crook and fits right in at home with this thug administration! Issa’s head must spin in complete revolutions daily when he reads any reports regarding this administration. The list of what they have gotten away with is staggering! What are the citizens of Nevada smoking to elect this idiot for so many terms and how can they support obammy??? They have the highest unemployment in the country??? Dirty harry has lost all credibility years ago like so many in washington and has no right to address the public anymore just like eric holder, nancy pelosi, obammy, hillary, bill and so many others. Throw them all out!! I am an army of one and I approve this message!
  
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asybot12
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 4:51pm
Please, please Blaze quit putting Reid’s face on the page. He does only two things well and that is make me sick and it incites violence.

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straitshot
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 4:50pm
You CAN’T pass something you DON’T HAVE! And besides, if you want to break the economy, it’s a good start. My question is: how long are we going to allow them to get away with it? Where is the public outcry?

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blackfeather
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 4:28pm
reid and his crowd are next….

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voting-for-romney
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 3:45pm
Gonna Pass a Budget, Pass a Budget, Democrats, say Good Bye?

Balanced Budgets, hey hey hey hey, Democrats you did not try?

Fairer Taxes, Fairer Taxes, Democrats, you don’t know why?

Vote for Obama, na na na na na, hey hey hey Good BYE!

Democrats, Go AWAY NOW, hey hey hey, GOOD BYE!

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80mesh
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 3:28pm
i went into the toilet this morning and passed a senate …you’d think passing a budget would be easy
hmmm … go figger

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michael from Ga.
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 3:18pm
This photo puts a face with the Progressive Senate.

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kickagrandma
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:51pm
And Washington (and America) is still underwater! Yes, pun intended.

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soybomb315_II
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:38pm
The answer to the democrats blocking the budget bill in the senate is to not increase the debt ceiling until they pass a budget. The debt ceiling has been raised three times since the last budget – we need to grow a spine

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL31967.pdf

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The-Monk
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:34pm
Why hasn’t someone called George Bush and asked him why he’s taking so long?

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faithfullistener
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:33pm
So WHEN will America hold these idiots accountable????????

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- tunnelboy
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 3:26pm
  You took the words right out of my mouth.
  
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Diane TX
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:30pm
The last budget that was passed by this Congress had Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid at the helm. Since Nancy and Harry did such an excellent job back then, the Progressives decided that there isn’t any need of a new budget, especially since the Republicans now run the House.

On a side note, since Obama won the last Presidential election, it has been decided (by Obama) that there isn’t any need of electing a new President.

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:40pm
  house controls the money. They could shut this thing down and not let Obama borrow another nickel if they wanted to….
  
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- Diane TX
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:58pm
  @ Soy
  
  Yes, I know, but that’s what the Dems wanted them to do, so that the Dems could blame the Republicans for everyone who receives money from the government not receiving it. That was the Dems strategy and the Repub’s wouldn’t play along.
  
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BODYBAG
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:28pm
Im going to tell you the truth.
Politicians behave this way and do ANYTHING they want PRECISELY because they operate
WITHOUT FEAR. 100% oblivious and detached from ANY consequences WHATSOEVER.

Libya is just the latest of a list of grievances that would stretch to the moon and back.

Introduce FEAR into the equation —— thats the ONLY WAY it will ever change.

“When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
—- Thomas Jefferson

“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
—- Thomas Jefferson

Sadly this has become a Nation of timid men.

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- Stelex
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:41pm
  I’ve got to agree with you……..”Federal law requires the senate to put forth a budget” they’ve broken Federal Law 3 times now and nothing has happened. Lack of fear of reprisal. If they know nothing will happen why bother. They need to be afraid again……..and its up to We the People to establish that fear……..how. How do we get the power back is the question we should all be pondering daily. Then we must act.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:51pm
  Our politicians haven’t operated within the bouds of the constutution for so long,roughly a century that they have no idea what our founders meant by limited government. They think government is the be all and end all for every situation. The class warfare the Marxist mulatto heathen POS engages in is in a class all by itself because other politicians do it it’s just that Barry has made it an art form.
  
  No budget for three years is unheard of until the fraud POS came along and destroyed our economy,the heathen bastard will be fired though of that I’m sure.
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 3:01pm
  You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence.
  – Attributed to Charles Austin Beard (1874-1948)
  
  Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don’t have a gun, freedom of speech has no power.
  – Yoshimi Ishikawa, Japanese author, in the LA Times 15 Oct 1992
  
  You know why there’s a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.
  – Rush Limbaugh, 17 Aug 1993
  
  “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
  – John F. Kennedy
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 3:38pm
  @STELEX
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:41pm
  I’ve got to agree with you……..”Federal law requires the senate to put forth a budget” they’ve broken Federal Law 3 times now and nothing has happened. Lack of fear of reprisal.
  —————————————————
  These men [Founding Fathers] left us a treasure of an inheritance.
  They would be ashamed and embarrassed by what we have ALLOWED it to become.
  
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spfoam1
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:28pm
Nevada has become the hemorrhoid of the USA……home of Harry Reid (the Dick of the Senate). Stay away from Las Vegas until this communist creep is gone. You have to hit them where it hurts.

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- IMCHRISTIAN
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 3:01pm
  Reid (before accident) was probably so too busy rounding up government (a/a taxpayers money) land to put their solar power plants on, More losses to look forward too probably. They have a one track mind while we can’t have the energy that should be cheaper and ready to go. WE NEED PRIVATE SECTOR JOBS NOW.
  
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The-Monk
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:28pm
A budget might expose how much Valerie Jarret is spending on her Secret Service detail and who knows what else.

Can’t have that….

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huey6367
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:23pm
Why has no one gone to jail over this? It is required by the Constitution. But who really needs the Constitution, right?

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The-Monk
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:22pm
“We have to spend the money before we can have a budget.”

Nancy Pelosi

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progressiveslayer
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:22pm
The hogs in DC feeding at the trough won’t decrease spending and we all know it,they’ll simply say a reduction in the size of the increase is a cut. Yes an Obamazombie will buy it but normal people know we’re getting screwed.

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- Gonzo
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:31pm
  If half the people understood their games as well as you do, the game would be over. The sad part is, they are not that hard to figure out, if you just pay attention.
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:45pm
  Read them carefully ———
  
  “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Tolerance in the face of tyranny is no virtue.”
  – Barry Goldwater
  
  “The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference – they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good”
  – George Washington
  
  “The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.”
  – Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers at 184-188
  
  “Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficient… The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.”
  – Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
  
  “I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”
  – Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787
  
  “This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it.”
  – Abraham Lincoln, 4 April 1861
  
  “Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacr
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:54pm
  I’m partial to this one.
  
  “This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it.”
  – Abraham Lincoln, 4 April 1861
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 3:11pm
  PROGRESSIVESLAYER
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:54pm
  I’m partial to this one.
  ——————————–
  Me too. I literally get chills when I read these men’s words. Brilliant towering men compared
  to the effeminate shite that represents us today.
  
  That makes my blood boil.
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 3:18pm
  That last one was cut off ——
  
  “Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily lives, and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom”
  ——- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (American 35th US President (1961-63)
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 3:24pm
  It’s ironic isn’t it that men who lived in the eighteenth century were light years ahead of what passes for modern day politicians in terms of what governments role is supposed to be in our everyday lives. They were geniuses back then and today’s politicians are intellectually inferior to our founders.
  
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Ben__Franklin
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:16pm
Why does King Obama and Court Jester Reid need a budget. They would not follow it anyways. There is so much of other peoples money to spend and so little time….

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:21pm
  Agreed.
  
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IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:15pm
You have to have brains to know how to make out a budget and be able to follow it so that must be the reason they haven’t got one passed.

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BenFrank1791
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:14pm
The Senate is the weak lynchpin to this election. I don’t know if a Republican controlled House and presidency will be enough to turn back the tide. I hope so. Some how we just forgot about the Senate and just focused on Romney. We should have hammered home the fact that this Senate is a low point in American history. I think if we had focused more on this earlier we may have had a chance to controll the Senate as well. That chance I see slipping away.

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:42pm
  thats what the media is good at (fox news included). It’s all about the executive power to them. Nobody pays attention to Congress and the power that Congress does have, they keep giving to the executive branch
  
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- TEARS FOR AMERICA
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 3:19pm
  Throw out all the bums!
  
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kat747
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:09pm
Fraud, Fraud and more Fraud……on top of the White House and the Senate along with the Sec. of State not doing the job they were elected to do for the AMERICAN PEOPLE IN THE US.
VOTE THEM OUT ON NOV 6th.

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Gonzo
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:08pm
Harry Reid: Budget? We don’ need no steenking budget!

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- HKS
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:24pm
  The democrats say they just make it up as they go along and it works fine. When that’s how the congress views the most important business they have it’s no wonder we are bankrupt and pretty apt to stay that way.
  
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Cibolo
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:05pm
You see, the real problem is, a Democrat would see the red bar at 12.1 Trillion and think our economy was growing…..

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- kat747
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:10pm
  Good One.
  
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Proverbs17-12NLT
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:05pm
And why are these politicians being paid? No budget no pay. No budget go to jail.

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- huey6367
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:24pm
  It is required by the Constitution.
  
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