by James Fite | Mar 1, 2024 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
February 29 was a special day, and not just because it only comes around every four years. It’s also the day lawmakers in Congress were able to set aside their partisan differences just long enough to pass an emergency stopgap funding bill to defer the dreaded...
by James Fite | Oct 7, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
Where are the single-subject appropriations bills we were promised? That’s the question headlining a September 7 video posted to Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-FL) House.gov media page, foreshadowing both the last-minute budget battle, the 45-day continuing resolution (CR)...
by James Fite | Oct 1, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
After weeks of virtue signaling, partisan bickering, and fear mongering over a government shutdown, Congress finally managed to pass a continuing resolution (CR) to keep the wheels turning beyond September 30. But a 70-plus-page bill that only keeps the government...
by Dave Patterson | Sep 26, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
It’s time for the annual face-off between fiscal conservatives and free-spending liberals. The specter of a government shutdown is again the progressive bugaboo. This year, the fight is over funding social justice and woke policies or programs that effectively defend...
by James Fite | Sep 30, 2022 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
The Senate voted to approve a continuing resolution (CR) Thursday afternoon. The stopgap funding keeps the government running until December 16, and passage through the upper chamber came just a day before the Friday, September 30 deadline, when the already...