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Leading With the Budget
By: Newt Gingrich
May 5th, 2015

This week the Senate will follow the House in passing a federal budget that presents a remarkable contrast in governing ability and philosophy between Republicans and Democrats.

When Democrats ran one or both houses of Congress, they failed for six straight years to do the most basic function of the Legislative Branch: pass a concurrent budget resolution to determine how the federal government will spend its money each year.  This was astonishingly irresponsible for a party that oversaw the development of the modern budgeting process.

The inability to pass a budget reflected the Democrats’ lack of interest in governing compared to their interest in politics.  They refused to set clear priorities or impose any kind of the self-restraint necessary for effective budgeting. Their lack of leadership extended far beyond budgeting to legislating as a whole and in the end Americans decided they had had enough.

It is slightly more than 100 days into the enhanced majority of Speaker Boehner and his leadership team, and their partners in the Senate Republican majority, and the difference is already on full display.  The federal budget was passed by the House last week and is expected to be passed by the Senate this week.  In addition, the appropriations process in the House is beginning earlier than at any time since 1974.

The collaboration is reminiscent of my partnership with Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole twenty years ago this spring when our new majorities...

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