We're all forced to start the new year with the results of congressional shenanigans of last year -- a cliffhanger budget that still isn't close to a real deal. In fact, it's a raw deal, and Americans will ultimately pay the price for Congressional and presidential power gone mad. Leid Stories contends that it's not that Congress and the president don't have rules and laws that they must obey in formulating a national budget; it's just that they don't think the 1974 Budget and Impoundment Control Act and a series of other laws and procedures they themselves have authored really to them. Plus, reports raising doubts about how Hillary Clinton sustained her head injury.
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