Living in a Continuing Resolution World
Here's today's trivia question: How many times since 1977 has Congress managed to pass all of the annual appropriations bills on time? Three. That's according to Philip Joyce of The George Washington University, cited in this piece by the Washington Post's David Ignatius.
Ignatius details in all-too-familiar fashion the managerial inefficiencies that result from ongoing budget uncertainty. " How do you innovate if you don't know how much money you've got?" he asks. "A continuing-resolution world means business as usual."
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