Volume XIX No.45: November 7, 2014
TAXPAYERS FOR COMMON SENSE–As the 113th Congress comes to a close in a post-election lame duck session, there is an interest in some quarters to finish up their lengthy to-do list. Topping the list is finishing the 12 spending bills to fund government. In fact that should pretty much be the whole list. Whatever didn’t get done in the 22 months since the 113th was sworn in should be left undone for the 114th to pick up in January.
The federal government is operating under a temporary continuing resolution, funding agencies at last year’s levels until December 11th. All effort in the coming days should go into writing spending bills for each of the agencies so they can escape continuing resolution purgatory, and so Congress can exert their power of the purse. If all twelve spending bills aren’t enacted, some agencies will be operating under a continuing resolution for a second consecutive year. That virtually guarantees inefficiencies in government.
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