The GOP keeps asking, where's Obama's sequestration plan?

It is hard to believe that the GOP will get away with their acceptance of sequester. I think it will be a disaster for the country.

Members of the GOP feel that they will not be hurt politically because they can pin the blame for sequester on Obama. Also, hey think that the massive gerrymandering will keep them safe.

Does anyone agree?

The plan must start with recommendations from the President that the congress can work on.

Your knowledge about how legislation is approved is lacking.

All legislative powers are enured to congress, not the president.

All legislative powers are enured to congress, not the president.

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Conservative Media Ignore Obama's Sequester Plan

The President’s Budget Proposal Goes to Congress

The President’s Budget Proposal informs Congress of the White House’s vision for the three basic elements of U.S. fiscal policy: (1) how much money the government should spend on public needs and programs; (2) how much money the government should take in through taxes and other sources of revenue; and (3) how large a deficit or surplus will result -- simply the difference between money spent and money taken in.

Congress Begins its Work on the Budget

With much and often heated debate, Congress hacks away at the president’s Budget Proposal to come up with its own version, known as the Budget Resolution. Like any other piece of legislation, the House and Senate versions of the Budget Resolution must match.

As a critical part of the budget process, the congressional Budget Resolution sets spending limits on discretionary government programs for the next 5 years.

Congress Creates the Annual Spending Bills

The meat of the annual federal budget is, in fact, a set of “appropriations,” or spending bills distributing the funds allocated in the Budget Resolution among the various government functions.

Roughly one-third of the spending authorized by any annual federal budget is “discretionary” spending, meaning it is optional, as approved by Congress. The annual spending bills approve discretionary spending. Spending for “entitlement” programs, like Social Security and Medicare is referred to as “mandatory” spending.

A spending bill must be created, debated and passed to fund the programs and operations of each Cabinet-level agency. Per the Constitution, each spending bill must originate in the House. Since the House and Senate versions of each spending bill must be identical, this always become the most time-consuming step in the budget process.

Congress and the President Approve the Spending Bills

Once Congress has passed all of the annual spending bills, the president must sign them into law, and there is no guarantee that will happen. Should the programs or funding levels approved by Congress vary too greatly from those set by the president in his or her Budget Proposal, the president could veto one or all of the spending bills. Vetoed spending bills slow the process greatly.

Final approval of the spending bills by the president signals the end of the annual federal budget process.

How did the government operate without any budget for the past three years that the congress must approve before any spending is authorized?

What's wrong with this picture?

And what exactly might those things be that the Senate refuses to accept?

And how did the government continue to pay their expenses without a budget?

They spend it through "appropriation bills." A budget is not needed. That's the reason why the government continues to operate year-to-year - even for the three years that the democrats in the Senate did not pass a budget.

Like magic! LOL

And while Woodward’s column will no doubt generate buzz for Republicans, the Pulitzer-winning journalist doesn’t let House Republicans off the hook either.
“A majority of Republicans did vote for the Budget Control Act that summer, which included the sequester. Key Republican staffers said they didn’t even initially know what a sequester was — because the concept stemmed from the budget wars of the 1980s, when they were not in government,” Woodward wrote.

But georgeob, isn't it something about needing 60 votes these days of the ever present "filibuster?"

Just askin