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Redstate
Leading With
the Budget
By: Newt Gingrich
May 5th, 2015
This week the Senate will follow the House in passing a federal budget
that presents a remarkable contrast in governing ability and philosophy
between Republicans and Democrats.
When Democrats ran one or both houses of Congress, they failed for six
straight years to do the most basic function of the Legislative Branch:
pass a concurrent budget resolution to determine how the federal
government will spend its money each year. This was astonishingly
irresponsible for a party that oversaw the development of the modern
budgeting process.
The inability to pass a budget reflected the Democrats’ lack of
interest in governing compared to their interest in politics.
They refused to set clear priorities or impose any kind of the
self-restraint necessary for effective budgeting. Their lack of
leadership extended far beyond budgeting to legislating as a whole and
in the end Americans decided they had had enough.
It is slightly more than 100 days into the enhanced majority of Speaker
Boehner and his leadership team, and their partners in the Senate
Republican majority, and the difference is already on full
display. The federal budget was passed by the House last week and
is expected to be passed by the Senate this week. In addition,
the appropriations process in the House is beginning earlier than at
any time since 1974.
The collaboration is reminiscent of my partnership with Senate Majority
Leader Bob Dole twenty years ago this spring when our new majorities...
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