A group of Democratic and Republican House members say if Congress can’t fulfill its basic duty of passing a budget, they should punish themselves in a way that really hurts: by denying themselves their paychecks.
Neither party’s leaders seem keen on the idea, but rank-and-file members said the time has come to find a way to force Congress to take action.
Congress is supposed to pass a budget each year that sets overall spending limits and then pass the dozen spending bills that actually fund basic government operations by Oct. 1, which is the start of the fiscal year. But Congress hasn’t passed a budget since 2009, and it regularly fails to pass at least some of the 12 annual spending bills.
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