House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D. MD) will announce in a speech to a leading progressive think tank (shocker) that the House will not pass a budget this year. Call me a cynic, but I'm guessing the reason for this is that Democrats won't be able to agree on a budget that shows some kind of fiscal restraint and that will hurt their chances of reelection. President Obama gave them a great excuse when he created his deficit panel (despite the express disapproval of the legislature) and that they would be announcing their plans to address the deficit after the November elections (surprise). Hoyer says the House can't pass a budget without the recommendations of the panel. Funny, they seem to have managed to do it for over 200 years before.
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