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That effort ultimately failed, but it ate up floor time in a year without many other legislative initiatives, and allowed Republicans to tout the return to regular order under a GOP-controlled Congress
In fiscal 2006, “congressionally directed spending” based on CAGW’s definition ate up 3.4 percent of the total discretionary budget that year, not counting emergency spending on the wars
does not account for the multiyear effects on increased costs for Treasury securities that will remain outstanding after fiscal year 2011,” the report said, adding that the work on debt limit operations ate