Congress IS required BY LAW (specifically the budget control act of 1974, among others)to pass a budget. THere just is no punishment for violating the law.
I doubt I have watched 5 minutes of FOX news in the last 2 years (not counting election coverage when I was rotating among the big 3 to see what each was saying). In fact. most of my mainstream news comes from the MSNBC website, as it links from the MSN homepage that I use at work.
Why not try asking someone sometime BEFORE you start making assumptions and tossing accusations. My governing principle is logic, the law, and a can/should evaluation.
President Obama and Defense Secretary Hagel take pay cuts to lessen impact of sequester
- 03/04/2013 09:47:45 PM
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Well, it's more of a CYA-against-bad-press symbolic gesture than an impressive one.
- 03/04/2013 10:15:40 PM
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considering that nobody in Congress is losing pay or their job, it's a good precedent IMHO
- 03/04/2013 10:43:45 PM
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I don't care about any quantities under a million
- 04/04/2013 03:40:25 AM
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the president can't pass a budget you know.... 
- 04/04/2013 04:45:38 AM
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- 04/04/2013 04:45:38 AM
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No, but he is required by law to submit one, and he has not.
- 05/04/2013 06:10:24 PM
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good job getting your analysis from right wing media and pushing the lies they tell you
- 05/04/2013 07:04:05 PM
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good job on displaying more of your ignorance or willful blindness
- 06/04/2013 03:34:27 PM
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quoting from the second article you linked.....
- 06/04/2013 04:23:48 PM
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*SIGH*
- 07/04/2013 12:58:12 AM
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They need to cut hundreds of billions, not millions; and not over a fake 10 year period either. *NM*
- 05/04/2013 06:13:37 PM
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yes, because everyone knows the way out of recession is to prevent job creation 
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- 05/04/2013 07:04:49 PM
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- 05/04/2013 07:04:49 PM
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Federal spending can not create real, sustainable, job growth. *NM*
- 06/04/2013 03:39:52 PM
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it doesn't have to, that's why they call it "stimulus" *NM*
- 06/04/2013 04:08:04 PM
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Yeah, and I can call your mama, your daddy, but it don't change who they are. *NM*
- 07/04/2013 01:15:05 AM
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Yes we need to cut hundreds of billions of dollars
- 06/04/2013 03:17:01 AM
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Not really
- 06/04/2013 03:54:56 PM
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as long as debt and/or deficit is less than GDP they are manageable
- 06/04/2013 04:30:42 PM
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You do know why we use 10 year time periods with cbo numbers right? *NM*
- 06/04/2013 03:17:41 AM
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Yeah, so they can claim a dime of imaginary savings is a dollar. *NM*
- 06/04/2013 03:37:39 PM
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No anything past 10 years in projections are a joke.
- 07/04/2013 03:02:32 AM
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Anything past 1 year is a joke/lie becuase the next Congrees will do what it wants regardless. *NM*
- 07/04/2013 03:08:39 PM
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Ya know, semi-tangent but I just had an amusing notion about elected official pay
- 10/04/2013 07:12:56 PM
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it would require a constitutional amendment, but i think we could get it to pass.... *NM*
- 10/04/2013 11:24:26 PM
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