Congress faces yet another challenge, to meet responsibilities they swore, under oath, to meet when each member of House and Senate assumed office. So I wrote Senator Coburn.
Dr. Coburn,
Please restore to the House, and to Congress, the power of the purse.
The Constitution rightly lays out the responsibility of Congress to define a budget -- and to check the President if he strays from the Congressional view of the needs of the nation.
This administration has failed to meet expectations of presenting a viable budget, a budget likely to pass the Congress, a budget proposal that can be hammered into something acceptable to the understandings of administration and Congress about what the nation needs.
In the absence of Administration competence, as demonstrated year after year, the House should be commended for producing a likely proposal -- and the Senate should, indeed must, consider such a budget proposal with gravity and respect.
Whether, then the President signs such a budget package has nothing to do with whether Congress might respond with a clear veto override.
Signals to the President, and clear actions from Congress, detailing that continuing budget resolutions and debt ceiling adjustments will no longer be considered, well, that might imply some discipline on the part of Congress. I would consider that an essential step in a healthy direction for our nation.
Thanks,
Brad Kruse
Ponca City, OK
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