1. I have looked at the rules for budgets, and you're wrong. The Rand Paul has objected to having budget conferences with the House and only because the chair of the committee calls for a unanimous vote for it. And to pass a budget, you only need a majority. It's only if you want to have it deemed accepted by the House that it needs 60 to end debate, which is has never gotten to that point to even see if a few Reps would accept the proposed budget, because there hasn't been one.
2. Mostly true, except that it's the failure of the Dems to actually negotiate that's led to this final loggerheads. This was a last attempt to get the Dems to negotiate and they've still refused.
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Date: 5/10/13 13:30 (UTC)2. Mostly true, except that it's the failure of the Dems to actually negotiate that's led to this final loggerheads. This was a last attempt to get the Dems to negotiate and they've still refused.