If I didn't already love my Rep (Capuano), I would defintely love him for this from Friday's e-update:
I don’t really know what to write about the bill that passed in the House this afternoon, H.R. 1255: The Government Shutdown Prevention Act. This bill proposes to “deem” H.R.1 enacted into law if communication on the budget is not received from the Senate by April 6th. H.R.1 is the budget bill passed by the House that contained $100 billion in cuts from the President’s FY 2011 budget. It has already been rejected by the Senate.
Not only is this bill a complete waste of floor time, it is also clearly unconstitutional. As I am sure you realize, the way the legislative process works is that a bill has to pass BOTH the House and the Senate and THEN be signed by the President before it is a law. I’m pretty sure they still teach that in elementary school. I voted NO. Shockingly, this unconstitutional bill passed in the House and the entire vote is recorded below