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Originally Posted by janmcn
If you read "How a bill becomes a law" you'll learn that the republican controlled house of representatives introduces the bill, passes it on to the democratic controlled senate for debate, and then the president signs it. The congress controls the purse strings.
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My point being that the House passed a budget and sent it on to the Senate where it died. They could have passed their own and sent it to Conference, but the Dems wanted no part of that.
Nice cheap shot, though.