Originally posted by dtbushpilot
| Quote: | Originally posted by Cisco
"Funding to improve the world's busiest land border crossing made it into President Barack Obama's budget but that doesn't mean the project will
shorten lines at the San Ysidro port anytime soon....
an ever-dysfunctional Congress, which hasn't approved a formal budget since 2009.
They're grateful the Obama administration identified the funds but if Congress once again fails to pass a budget, the funding is history.
That's significant because Congress hasn't passed a budget since 2009. Instead, it's relied on continuing resolutions — legislative tools that allow
lawmakers to simply extend the previous year's budget.
Continuing resolutions don't incorporate construction projects, meaning such a move would keep San Ysidro funding off the nation's balance sheet for
next year."
http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/government/article_ac642676-5... |
There's plenty of blame to go around but it hardly falls entirely on the shoulders of Congress. The Senate has to propose a budget for congress to
approve, the white house and Senate have failed to do that. If you want to throw stones you might chuck a few in Harry Reid's direction.
I quickly read the article in the link so I may have missed something but what I read that pertained to congressional funding was in reference to
improvements to the Southbound US crossing.
Unfortunately, Congress has no budget to approve and no money to spend and we all lose. My personal feeling is that they (Congress and Senate) aren't
doing the job that we sent them to Washington to do and we should vote them all out of office.....just my dos centavos... |
