| August 10, 2012 - 1,200 Days and $5 Trillion in New Debt Since Senate Dems Passed a Budget |
| “Tomorrow marks another disappointing record for the United States Senate: Senate Majority Leader Reid and his Democrat conference will have gone an unprecedented 1,200 days without adopting a budget plan as required by law,” write Sessions and Ryan. |
| July 24, 2012 - Tax reform badly needed |
| “Frankly, it’s hard to take this seriously when the Democrat majority has refused to pass any sort of tax reform, much less an annual budget in more than 1,100 days.” |
| April 26, 2012 - Senate’s scofflaw Democrats |
| By refusing to do a budget for three straight years – during a time of financial danger – the Senate’s Democratic majority has proved itself unworthy to lead. |
| April 25, 2012 - What’s the Senate Thinking? |
| April 29 marks the third year in which the U.S. Senate has not passed a budget — a staggering dereliction of duty, particularly given the country’s near-$16 trillion debt. |
| April 20, 2012 - Three years and no Senate budget |
| This is a milestone in human sloth. While it has taken Majority “Leader” Harry Reid of Nevada and Senate Democrats 36 months to conceive zero budgets, House Republicans have delivered two – one for each year they governed. |
| April 19, 2012 - Gridlock Isn’t To Blame for Senate Budget Failures |
| This is not a failure of bipartisanship, as Senate Democrats stopped passing budgets when their party still had control of the House. |
| April 19, 2012 - Chairman Conrad’s Embarrassing Quasi-Budget |
| Budget Committee Ranking Member Jeff Sessions (R–AL) called the moment a “national embarrassment” for the Senate. |
| April 18, 2012 - Why Democrats won’t vote on a budget |
| It is no coincidence that the Democrats’ failure to pass a budget began immediately after Obamacare became law. In order to hide its $1.7 trillion price tag and $500 billion in tax increases through 2022, Democrats had already exhausted every last budgeting gimmick. |
| February 7, 2012 - Senator Reid on the Budget: Not Interested |
| The Senate’s planned inaction on a budget is a cavalier choice not to take its governing responsibilities seriously. |
| February 4, 2012 - Senate Democrats Won’t Offer a Budget In 2012 |
| The truth is that Senate Democrats refuse to do their job because they fear that producing a budget could hurt them politically. |
| January 24, 2012 - One Thousand Days Without a Budget |
| … the Senate has “abandoned their official duty to prioritize Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars and tackle our nation’s most pressing economic challenges…” |
| January 23, 2012 - Far too long |
| Operating without a budget for 1,000 days with unchecked spending creates tremendous insecurity in the economy about taxes, inflation and interest rates, Ryan said. |
| January 20, 2012 - 1,000 Days Without a Budget: Facts on the Senate’s Failure |
| One thousand days without a budget is an embarrassing number, but the level of spending, deficits, and taxation that results from the Senate’s failure to exact even a modicum of fiscal discipline is terrifying. |
| December 5, 2011 - More Than 950 Days Since Senate Democrats Passed a Budget |
| Obama’s February budget, which would have increased spending, was laughed out of the Senate, voted down 97-0. As for the Democratic Senate, it has submitted no budget at all for two and a half years. |
| October 16, 2011 - 900 Days & Still No Budget from Senate Democrats |
| The Democratic-led Senate, on the other hand, has now gone 900 days without passing a budget and is delaying action on more than a dozen House-passed jobs bills. |
| October 14, 2011 - This Sunday: 900 Days Without a Senate Budget |
| But Senate Democrats, during this time of national crisis, failed even to present a budget plan—in open defiance of the law and the public they serve. Senate Majority Leader Reid said it would be ‘foolish’ to have a budget. |
| July 15, 2011 - GOP Senators Object: No Spending Bill Without Budget |
| According to the Congressional Budget Act, Congress may not appropriate money for any fiscal year without first passing a budget, which serves as a concrete plan for spending, borrowing, and taxing. Despite this prohibition, Senate Democrats—who have refused to pass a budget for 807 days or make one public at all this year—attempted to move a spending bill on the floor yesterday. |
| July 8, 2011 – Eight Hundred Days Without A Budget |
| Not only is a budget a concrete fiscal plan, but it expresses a philosophy of governing. Democrats’ refusal to pass a budget — and refusal to put their big-government economic theories on paper — is of extraordinary significance. |
| May 26, 2011 - There’s No Budget Like a Senate Dem Budget |
| Yesterday four budgets were offered up in the Senate, and all four failed. None of the proposed budgets were offered by the Senate Democrats, who didn’t even vote for President Obama’s budget, which failed 0-97. |
| May 19, 2011 - Dems put budget on ice again |
| “It seems Senate Democrats are desperately trying to avoid having to present a budget to the American people.” |
| May 12, 2011 - Still No Public Budget From Senate Dems |
| “The Democrat-led Senate has missed the statutory April 15th deadline two years in a row. Is it any wonder this nation is going broke?” |
