On the recordJune 30, 2010
This is Congressman Hoyer. And now we don't have a budget, and he is one of the leaders. Here we have the ranking member on the House Budget Committee, and he says, ``If you can't budget, you can't govern.'' Well, that's what they are saying in 2006. But it seems like that's not where we are today, is it? Here's ``Where Is the Budget?'' This is something that was in The Hill newspaper. But it's kind of telling. ``Skipping a budget resolution this year would be unprecedented. The House has never failed to pass an annual budget resolution since the current budget rules were put into place in 1974.'' That's why I am saying this is a little bit like one of those full eclipses of the sun. You have to wait for a certain number of years and be just in the right place to see it. This is unusual. We haven't seen this before. Unfortunately, it is not a good omen exactly from an economic point of view. According to what? The Congressional Research Service.
