Congress is not meeting Fiscal Year 2009 budget deadline

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From: The WashingtonWatch.com Blog

Annual Spending Process: Nothing to Report

Posted by Jim Harper, September 14, 2008 at 1:53 pm

When is nothing happening newsworthy? How about when Congress spends thousands of dollars per U.S. family without oversight.

With just over two weeks to go before the beginning of the new fiscal year October 1st, neither the House or the Senate have introduced all the annual spending bills, and none have passed into law.

These are bills that Congress would use to decide how hundreds of billions of dollars are spent. Our page tracking the fiscal year 2009 budget and spending process is here.

With the annual spending process in collapse, Congress is likely to pass a series of “continuing resolutions,” ad hoc spending bills that essentially leave the government on autopilot. Yet congressional leaders have signaled for some time that their plan is to let the spending process lapse this way.

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