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The US House passed a non-binding budget resolution.

I'm trying to remember what the next steps are. Feel free to correct or confirm:

1) Compile a draft bill
2) Vote and send to the Senate
3) Senate makes changes and votes on those changes
4) Changes are sent back to the House who approves (or not) and sends it back to the Senate
5) Senate votes on the final bill
6) If it passes both chambers it goes to the president for a vote

Did I miss anything?

Maybe I should go watch SchoolHouse Rock

Don't think that the resolution has any connection (except as a proclamation of a position) to the actual budget process.

Highlander wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2025 6:57 pm Don't think that the resolution has any connection (except as a proclamation of a position) to the actual budget process.

Well they need a budget, and a resolution serves the purpose of gaging what everyone wants, as well as what their constituents think. So the next step is to actually compile that bill.

Compiled largely, as I recall, by the CBO.

Highlander wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2025 8:14 pm Compiled largely, as I recall, by the CBO.

I thought that the CBO was responsible for estimates to the bill that the House submits, but that it still needs a bill introduced for them to provide that estimate.

It will be a decoration.

Just like Gramm-Rudman.

anawim wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2025 8:46 pm

Highlander wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2025 8:14 pm Compiled largely, as I recall, by the CBO.

I thought that the CBO was responsible for estimates to the bill that the House submits, but that it still needs a bill introduced for them to provide that estimate.

Again, as I recall, that is the theory. The practice is that the CBO is a bureaucracy that provides a wide range of financial services to the Congress. So, if a Congressman is considering the costs (and other financial aspects) of a specific bill that he might propose, his staffers go to the CBO for the estimates. His staff doesn't have the wherewithal to produce the estimate.