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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
You didn't answer my question, nor does that CRS report. I don't see the suggestion there that it has been common to fund the government through continuing resolutions from October through the following January or February. (Maybe it is.)
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Based on personal, albeit anecdotal, observation, it is. Sometimes the budget bills get done in October or November, sometimes not until January or February.
It is particularly common when there is an election that if they don't get done before the election, they are left for the newly elected. I'm fairly confident that Kerry would have been right pissed, had he won, if the outgoing republicans had passed a budget during what would have been a lame duck session.
ETA: Are there democrats who, post-election, are urging that the Rs pass the budget bills now, rather than leave it to the incoming Ds? And are putting their money where their mouth is by dropping objections and objectionable budget items to allow that to happen?
