{"id":2031854,"date":"2023-09-14T14:09:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T18:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senators-push-proposal-to-keep-congress-in-town-until-new-federal-budget-is-approved\/"},"modified":"2023-09-14T14:10:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T18:10:34","slug":"senators-push-proposal-to-keep-congress-in-town-until-new-federal-budget-is-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senators-push-proposal-to-keep-congress-in-town-until-new-federal-budget-is-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators propose keeping Congress in session until new federal budget is approved."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenators-push-proposal-to-keep-congress-in-town-until-new-federal-budget-is-approved%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2031854&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Bipartisan Effort to Prevent Government Shutdowns<\/h2>\n<p>A bipartisan group of senators led by James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Angus\u2063 King (I-Maine) believes that members of Congress should be fully committed to completing the 2024 federal\u2064 budget without any breaks. \u200dTheir proposal, known as the &#8220;Prevent Government Shutdowns \u2064Act&#8221; (PGSA) of 2023, has gained\u2063 attention \u200cdue\u2062 to the current struggle \u2064in Congress to reach a consensus on a spending plan that \u2062satisfies both Democrats and Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>The PGSA requires members of Congress and their staffs to remain in Washington, D.C. until the budget is agreed upon by\u200c the Senate \u200dand House of Representatives and sent to\u200d President Joe Biden\u2062 for his signature.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/opinion\/federal-budget-deficit-suddenly-doubles-signaling-disaster-5486474\">Federal \u200cBudget \u200cDeficit \u200cSuddenly Doubles, Signaling Disaster<\/a> &#8211; 9\/5\/2023<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/defense-budget-pulled-from-house-floor-as-gop-turmoil-stokes-fear-of-government-shutdown-5491188\">Defense Budget Pulled From House Floor as GOP Turmoil Stokes Fear of Government Shutdown<\/a> &#8211; 9\/14\/2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The proposal has garnered support from senators Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.),\u200b Ron \u200dJohnson (R-Wis.), Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.), \u200cJohn Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.), Steve \u2064Daines (R-Mont.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), and Mike\u200c Braun (R-Ind.).<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-figure\">\n<figure style=\"width:600px\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>Sen. Angus King \u2063(I-Maine) talks with reporters as\u2062 he walks through\u200d the Senate subway\u200c on his way to a vote at the\u200c Capitol in Washington, \u200con June 21, 2021. (Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The proposal outlines a series of 14-day periods following the end of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/most-of-bidens-1-9-trillion-coronavirus-relief-bill-has-nothing-to-do-with-public-health\/\" title=\"Most Of Biden\u2019s .9 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Bill Has Nothing To Do With Public Health\">current fiscal year<\/a> on\u2063 Sept. 30, during\u200d which the government would run\u200b out of appropriated funds. During \u200bthese periods, members of Congress and their staff would be required to focus solely on finalizing the budget and would not be allowed to work on any\u2064 other legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the proposal\u2063 restricts \u200dthe use of official funds for travel, except for one \u200dtrip back to Washington, D.C., from\u200b a member&#8217;s state\u200d or district if necessary.\u2062 Congress would also be limited to\u2064 recess for no more\u2064 than 23 hours at a time, and campaign funds could \u200cnot be used to \u200dsupplement a\u2064 member&#8217;s official duties \u200bor travel.<\/p>\n<p>If passed, the Lankford\u2013King proposal would hold Congress accountable to complete their\u200d job\u200b of finalizing the budget before taking \u2064any \u2064breaks. However, the proposal\u2062 does not address the issue \u200bof \u2064withholding congressional paychecks.<\/p>\n<p>During\u200d a recent media \u200dappearance, Mr. Lankford emphasized \u200dthat no member of Congress\u2064 wants a government shutdown. \u2063He expressed the need for a solution to the country&#8217;s debt and deficit issues, highlighting the importance of addressing these concerns without resorting to a shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. King, an Independent \u200bwho caucuses with the Senate&#8217;s \u2063Democrats, echoed these sentiments, stating that previous budget \u200bshowdowns have resulted in temporary relief rather\u2062 than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-intel-warns-china-is-advancing-military-power-sharing-propaganda\/\" title=\"U.S. Intel warns China is advancing military power, sharing propaganda\">long-term solutions<\/a>. He emphasized the need to break this cycle and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senators-push-proposal-to-keep-congress-in-town-until-new-federal-budget-is-approved\/\" title=\"Senators propose keeping Congress in session until new federal budget is approved.\">prevent future\u200b shutdowns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although the proposal was initially introduced in 2019, it has yet to be \u2064brought to\u200d the floor of the Senate for a vote. However, with the current urgency surrounding the budget negotiations, there is renewed hope \u2063that the Prevent Government Shutdowns Act will gain the attention it deserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bipartisan group, led by Senators Lankford and King, proposes that Congress should remain in the capital until the 2024 budget is finished. The &#8220;Prevent Government Shutdowns Act&#8221; (PGSA) was introduced in January by Lankford and Scott.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":2031855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}