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When does Congress begin debate on the President's budget? (Original Post) ProSense Apr 2013 OP
Will they EVER, elleng Apr 2013 #1
They usually ProSense Apr 2013 #5
IDK but that's going to be one embarrassing roll call, even in the Senate. JaneyVee Apr 2013 #2
You're right-- he put SS on the table and smashed the party's 2014 prospects for nothing. Marr Apr 2013 #3
Many times both chambers will vote against a President's budget unanimously madville Apr 2013 #4

elleng

(130,156 posts)
1. Will they EVER,
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 05:54 PM
Apr 2013

or do their own? Have Senate Dems 'adopted' PrezO's budget as their own for this purpose?

ProSense

(116,464 posts)
5. They usually
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 06:16 PM
Apr 2013

"Will they EVER, or do their own? Have Senate Dems 'adopted' PrezO's budget as their own for this purpose?"

...take the President's budget and use it as a basis for the spending bill.

2012 United States federal budget

The 2012 United States federal budget was the budget to fund government operations for the fiscal year 2012, which is October 2011–September 2012. The original spending request was issued by President Barack Obama in February 2011. That April, the Republican-held House of Representatives announced a competing plan, The Path to Prosperity, emboldened by a major victory in the 2010 Congressional elections associated with the Tea Party movement. The budget plans were both intended to focus on deficit reduction, but differed in their changes to taxation, entitlement programs, defense spending, and research funding.[2][3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_United_States_federal_budget

2011 United States federal budget

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President Barack Obama proposed his 2011 budget during February 2010. He has indicated that jobs, health care, clean energy, education, and infrastructure will be priorities. Total requested spending is $3.83 trillion and the federal deficit is forecast to be $1.56 trillion in 2010 and $1.27 trillion in 2011. Total debt is budgeted to increase from $11.9 trillion in FY2009, to $13.8 trillion in FY2010, and $15.1 trillion in FY2011.[6][7]

It was widely anticipated that a government shutdown on April 8, 2011 was possible if a budget resolution or a seventh continuing resolution was not passed by the expiration of the sixth continuing resolution on April 8, 2011,[8] which would have caused the furlough of 800,000 out of 2 million civilian federal employees.[9][10] However, a deal was reached with just hours remaining before the deadline, averting the shutdown. The deal included $38.5 billion in cuts from what had been budgeted for 2010, in addition to another $10 billion in cuts that had been imposed in some of the continuing resolutions.[11][12] However, the April 13 Congressional Budget Office estimate showed that, compared with then-current spending rates, the spending bill would cut federal outlays from non-war accounts by just $352 million through Sept. 30. About $8 billion in immediate cuts to domestic programs and foreign aid were offset by nearly equal increases in defense spending.[13]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_United_States_federal_budget#History



madville

(7,397 posts)
4. Many times both chambers will vote against a President's budget unanimously
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 06:13 PM
Apr 2013

I predict that will happen here, it comes up in the Senate it will be 95-0 against and the House would be 400-0 with some members not voting.

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