1.4.5: Appropriations Bills
Require any appropriation bill to provide at least a full year of appropriated funding in order to be able to be considered
on the floor of the House or Senate.
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Prohibit continuing resolutions. Specifically, this would require any appropriation bill to provide at least a full year of
appropriated funding in order to be able to be considered on the floor of the House or Senate. One practical way (but not
the only way) to enforce this would be to prohibit any bill that does not provide a full twelve months of funding to be passed
unless 75 percent of each house voted for the bill. This is a radical idea. It would possibly make it more likely that government
shutdowns of the type not seen since 1995 and 1996 would occur. On the other hand, that fact might make it less likely that
we would continue the process of enacting serial continuing resolutions that create numerous problems for federal agencies
and recipients of government funds. The argument here is that the routine practice of serial CRs creates more problems than
brief periodic government shutdowns.
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