From The Hill:
The chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said lawmakers should be voted out of office if Congress fails to pass a budget this year.
“There was no budget done last year; there was no series of appropriations done last year. Quite frankly, if we do it again this year, I hope they would vote us out of office,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said in an interview Tuesday with Fox Business Network.
“It’s really ridiculous not to vote the details of the budget and then the details of appropriations, and last year was the first time that we failed to do a budget since 1974 when the Budget Act was passed,” Issa said.
The failure of Congress to pass a budget bill for fiscal 2011 led to the spending fight that has dominated the opening months of the new Congress.






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