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      <title>Comments On: No Budget No Pay: Cooper v. Constitution
    
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    <author><![CDATA[AnglRdr]]></author>
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      <![CDATA["The budget" House republicans +Cooper are whining about is a totally different animal than expenditure bills, all of which, by the way, must originate with the House.<br>
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The budget is merely a mission statement, and also not Constitutionally-required.<br>
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Much more blustering about absolutely nothing.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Thomas Paine]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I'm always amused by the deficit hawks who populate the commentary on local websites. They were all noticeably silent when Ronald Reagan ballooned the deficit with defense spending and George W. Bush did the same with two (count 'em!)
        
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    <author><![CDATA[average joe]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Gee, basically no work, no pay  what a concept!
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 06:25:09 -0600</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[ornlgeorge]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[In order for the "no budget no pay" to be effective, it must include all of house, senate, and the president. This is because compromise is the main issue.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Kosh III]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[This is a feel-good idea which would do NOTHING. <br>
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The average income of a Senator/Representative is $850,000.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[gast]]></author>
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      <![CDATA["China has the problem, not the U.S."<br>
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Remember those words, you may have to eat them. Combined with chagrin they'll make a fine humble pie.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Zombie Ronald Reagan]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[China has the problem, not the U.S. <br>
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gast obviously hasn't heard that old quote from J. Paul Getty: "If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem."
        
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    <author><![CDATA[davidlongfellow]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Wouldn't be necessary at all if the Senate would vote on a budget. The last one they did vote on they voted 97-0 against a budget provided by the Obama administration.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[gast]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[What's that? Spending money we haven't yet borrowed from China?
        
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          <a href="http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/Profile?oid=1501305">xray</a>]]>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:57:13 -0600</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Min]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[What a ridiculous bit of posturing. Just do your damn job, Representative Cooper.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:39:29 -0600</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Gilbert Martin]]></author>
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      <![CDATA["When U.S. House Republicans used their Williamsburg retreat last week to retreat from an economic hostage-taking strategy "<br>
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That's funny seeing as how it the private sector that creates the economy - not government.<br>
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In fact, it is the private sector that enables government to exist at all - not the other way around.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:31:11 -0600</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Gilbert Martin]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[It is the Democratically controlled Senate the has refused to produce a budget for several years now.<br>
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The Republican controlled House has produced them.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[taggs]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[This is total crap. Every one knows that the lobbies will take care of the senate if they get a pay cut.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[accipiter]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Cooper needs to 'come out' and register as the Republican he really is.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[IndividualOverTheCollective]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Unless we reign in our spending problem, there will be no money left to pay anyone anything, including members of Congress. We need to return federal government to the 17 specific enumerations it's empowered with, and stop burdening younger Americans with so much debt.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:18:01 -0600</pubDate>
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