The Senate is dismantling the budget process and abdicating Congress’s spending authority

By: Soren Dayton (Diary)  |  January 17th at 07:20 PM  | 

During the last debt ceiling fight, some pundits in the media and on the left wished for the “Gephardt rule” when the House automatically raised the debt ceiling when they passed a budget. Josh Green at the Atlantic praised it in 2011, saying we should  ”bring [it] back.”  Now he is at Bloomberg and at it again and again and again. These pundits, and this is my first point, misunderstand what they are | Read More »