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Last week came news reports that the Democrats in control of the U.S. House and Senate may decline to pass a budget this year.  According to the Daily Caller, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said that while Democrats “would like to pass the budget, we have to see whether we have the votes to do so.”

“It’s difficult to pass budgets in election years,” said Hoyer.

The reason that Democratic leaders in Congress are laying the groundwork to operate without a budget blueprint is because passing one would cause the American people to learn just how much debt has been piled up in their names.  More debt will be enacted under President Obama than was accumulated during the terms of all the presidents who preceded him combined.  A full and open debate on the budget would lay bare the failure of the Democrat majority and the White House to treat the taxpayers with the respect they deserve. 

Not since the Budget Act of 1974 was signed into law has the U.S. House failed to pass an initial budget.  Families all across America sit down at the beginning of each year, each month, and even each week to set their own budgets and priorities.  For many American families, choosing to stop budgeting simply isn’t an option.  It shouldn’t be for Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi, either.  The American people deserve to know just how much debt the Democratic leadership is piling up, and a full and open debate should be held to consider common sense Republican alternatives to bring federal spending under control.