Apart from approval of budgetary matters, resolutions are not binding on the members.
Rather than placing the country on a sound fiscal footing, the GOP's ongoing refusal to raise the debt ceiling has worsened our budgetary situation, and without resolution to the impasse congressional Republicans will plunge the country even further into the red.
We do have somewhat of a resolution to our budgetary impasse, but that does not overwhelm the fact that, economically speaking, that the data continues to deteriorate".
Now, I recognize that the federal government faces daunting budgetary pressures, and their proper resolution concerns us all as citizens, but we need to ask ourselves: Is the excellence of our human and intellectual capital growing rapidly enough?
This week it was consumed by three overlapping budgetary debates: about a "continuing resolution" to keep the government up and running for the rest of this fiscal year, about next year's budget and about whether to raise the legal limit on the federal government's debt.
This does not mean the wink and nod of a resolution or a budgetary act, but rather a declaration of war.
While the federal consent decree orders the creation of a system to manage detainers, the New Orleans City Council, citing budgetary and constitutional concerns, passed a resolution in May urging Sheriff Marlin N. Gusman of Orleans Parish not to honor detainers at all.
The House budget resolution is a non-binding fiscal blueprint designed to guide budgetary deliberation.
Other steps might include a census and district-level elections (promised since 2001, but never held), fair and effective taxation to replace kickbacks and extortion, increased pay to diligent local officials, the transfer of more budgetary authority to the provinces and the creation of local courts for dispute resolution.
Last year, the Weather Service found a budgetary workaround that let it purchase a small amount of limited, low-resolution Tamdar data, but it's nowhere near enough to make a difference in the accuracy of its models.
