I was reading an article regarding federal workers suing the government for being furloughed during the government shutdown and not receiving their pay. A lot of people would say that this is nothing but sour grapes, but they would be wrong. There was no reason that these employees should not of been paid. The government did not stop collecting the same amount of taxes. In fact; there was no reason for the furlough at all.
During the so-called government shutdown, it was the understanding that it was the's Republican Party that caused this. Oh yes the treasonous. Antiochus, evil Tea Party members holding the government hostage as it was said. This in fact was not true. President Obama even confirm this by stating Obama-care had already been funded and the Republican Party was wasting its time. Well he was right as far as the year 2013, because; 2013 had been funded for the year. The debate was over future funding for 2014. This kind of changes the thinking as far as who shut the government down. Since it's funding was in place for the rest of the year it could only have been Pres. Obama who shut down the government. Do you think he missed any of his money? I don't think so and neither did the rest of the Washington Bunch.
One problem that I do have regarding the shutdown is where in the Constitution the majority leader in the Senate the power to hold up votes on bills that have been sent to the Senate by the House of Representatives?
sense all bills originate in the House of Representatives the Senate can only amend and return the bill to the House of Representatives or vote on them. The Constitution does not give the Senate the authority to write bills and it also has provisions to remove a Senator that feels he has this much power .
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