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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
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?
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The source I read (Stan Collendar in the National Journal, if I didn't say that before) suggested that it was atypical for the appropriations bills to be punted in this way, and suggested that it would start the next Congress is a particularly contentious way. Perhaps he's wrong on both counts, and it's atypical. I didn't read any Democrats complaining about it.
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