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KIMBERLEY STRASSEL: Congress Finally Earns Its Pay: Unlike years past, the budget debates in the H?

By Glenn Reynolds

KIMBERLEY STRASSEL: Congress Finally Earns Its Pay: Unlike years past, the budget debates in the House were vigorous and democratic, not stage-managed by the leadership of the majority party. “The Democrats’ style of management?on ObamaCare, cap and trade, financial regulation, stimulus?was to secretly craft bills and ram through a vote, denying members a chance to read, to debate, to amend. They learned this from former Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who infamously micro- managed his GOP majority from 2003-2005. The House had become a place where the leadership called all the shots and the majority saluted. But this week the country witnessed the House coming together to argue over and exercise its foremost responsibility: power over the purse. And from the look of the amendments, both sides were eager to use that funding authority to put the Obama policy machine on notice.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 18, 2011 (boomark / email).