Government Shutdown Summary

Change is needed, and Wilson summarizes the problems of government agencies and offers alternative market solutions and propositions.

I read The Lockdown, by Walter Dean Myers. Mr. Vanduyn made us read a book of our own choice and I had read the book within six hours. This book is not that catchy but it makes a lot more sense if I continue to read it more. It is a beautiful and a sad story of a fourteen-year-old boy. His name is Reese and he’s African American. His father is not always there for him and his mother is a drug addict.

Another example of congressional gridlock preventing a bill becoming law is when President Obama was still in the Oval Office. In 2014, Congress was gridlocked over Immigration Reform. Republicans in the Senate were indecisive on a $2.7 billion dollar bill to help with Central Americans crossing the border illegally. While it may not seem as serious, many politicians deemed this as a “national crisis”. President Obama also fought for it to be passed in Congress but it ended up making Congress delay for another day. The House also got a bill suspended that would make the deportation process much more efficient.

Two days after taking office, Roosevelt issued a proclamation closing all American banks for four days until Congress could meet in special session to consider banking-reform legislation. So great was the panic about bank failures that the "bank holiday," as the president euphemistically described it, created a general sense of relief. Three days later, Roosevelt sent to Congress the Emergency Banking Act, a generally conservative bill designed primarily to protect the larger banks from being dragged down by the weakness of smaller ones. The bill provided for Treasury Department inspection of all banks before they would be allowed to reopen, for federal assistance to some troubled institutions, and for a thorough reorganization of those in the greatest difficulty.

The government shutdown of 1995 was yet another example of how the system of checks and balances wasn’t what Madison intended. In 1994, there was a shift in the control of Congress from Democrats to Republicans, with the intended goal of balancing the federal budget. Here, breaches of inter-branch accommodation occurred and resulted in the 1995 budget shutdown. The Congressional Republicans were threatening to withhold funding from the executive branch unless President Clinton conceded to a series of budget priorities. The power of the purse is given to Congress without any textual limitations that give them the authority to defund the executive branch. The danger in this would be sabotaging the Constitution’s central organizational structure, set up by Madison, that the government comprises of three equal branches. Regardless, the Republicans in Congress remained firm, which caused the two shutdowns of government agencies in 1995.The divided branches and impasse led to the expiration of federal funding. In 1996, the President and Congress agreed on appropriations for the Fiscal Year. At the time, majority of public opinion favored the President’s position.

The legislature's set up allows for corruption to exist in the government. The government shutdown of 2013 ended after a "deal was reached in the U.S. Senate that included a provision that raised the spending cap on a dam construction project in Kentucky" (Hudak). In this case, "2.2 billion" dollars were set aside for this project (Almasy). CNN's article stated: "So much for a "clean" bill" (Almasy). Despite the fact that the major issue occurring was the government shutdown, Senator Mitch McConnell still pushed for his rider to be added to the bill. Salient issues are not being addressed

This article approaches the idea that republican senators like Ted Cruz were to blame for the shutdown and that they took the blame. This journal article also mentions that the “shutdown schemes” that were staged by Republicans and the Tea Party did not work out as they had planned. They claim the shutdown has an adverse effect on “public services, the economy and confidence in the ‘full faith and credit of the United States’”. If seems as though due the shutdown the republican party realized that they had lost the fight against the then majority ruled democrat congress, as opposed to the now majority of republicans having seats in congress. I will be using this article to evaluate how the Grand Old Party took the blame and agreed this was

” If we continue spending at current projected levels, the U.S. economy will be exposed to the risk of a sovereign debt crisis that would force economically crippling tax increases or sudden and severe cuts in government spending that would have long lasting negative consequences for U.S. economic growth and employment.” (Howard, 2011) Many small businesses have had to close their doors due to lack of company profit to off-set the cost of insurance to their employees. In addition, many businesses lay off workers to balance the new financial burden. This left numerous amounts of people left unemployed and now insured under government insurance (Medicaid and Medicare) as a result. Howard (2011) describes the pay or play that is mandated for these business owners, for

Governor LePage’s administration and the Maine State Legislature have been in gridlock for many months over the proposed two-year state budget beginning July 1. Maine faces the real possibility of a state government shutdown at the end of the fiscal year if that a budget agreement is not reached June 30th. The most recent state government shutdown lasting 16 days occurred in 1991 when then Gov. John McKernan failed to reach an agreement with the state legislature about workers compensation reform.

When people think of the government shutdown many think of quite simply the downfalls. This is most logically because the negatives of a government shutdown over power the positives. Just like most things though, there were some plus sides to the shutdown. Gingrich stated that the shutdown led to a balanced budget deal, and without the shutdown it may have never been arrived at (E. Green)

While they were in Washington most of the people in office tried to ignore their presence but congress debated about giving out the bonus early. On June 17 they ultimately decided against giving out the bonus early so many people returned home but others had no place to go so they stayed in Washington until they were forced to leave. The army used forces like guns and tear gas to get the people to leave their little towns, and when they had all left they burnt the

On January 20, 2018, the United States government shutdown when the Extension of Continuing Appropriations Act of 2018, a bill to fund the federal government, failed to pass Congress. The reason for this was due to disagreements between Democrats and Republicans on a proposed extension to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy incorporated into the bill. In response, Democrats, those who supported the DACA extension, led a filibuster in the Senate that effectively halted any legislative progress on the bill. Despite Republicans enacting a a cloture vote, a vote to forcibly end a filibuster, it failed to garner the sixty votes necessary to end the filibuster. As a result, the government shutdown will furlough thousands of federal

The political climate today is increasingly becoming more turbulent as Republicans and Democrats volley for superiority in Washington. The two parties are becoming more polarized by the hour, and this is affecting the ability of the government to move forward and pass legislation and continue to improve America. The Senate is in a state of gridlock on some of the most important issues to the people of the United States to date, and yet the senators which the people elected are instead caught up in fighting the people on the other side of the aisle. They should be listening to what their constituents need and want. Today Republican senators are using filibusters, scare tactics, and even entire news networks

But unfortunately many national parks and memorials had to be shut down because without funding there was no way to cover the costs to stay open. This caused problems with many veterans who wished to enter the war memorials. This even led to a riot and a break in at a World War 2 Memorial. Many federal workers were furloughed which basically means that they were let off temporarily till the government started back up. So large sums of workers were given a vacation, but if the government had been shut down longer, this could have become a very pressing issue.

The definition of congressional gridlock is the inability of the government to act because different parties (usually rivals) control different parts of the government. When two major partisan parties have a differentiating stands when it comes to ideology that’s when gridlock occurs. The House of Representatives and the senate are controlled by different parties, and this is when congressional gridlock can occur. This situation is very common and is a bit complex because in order for bills to be presented, the house has to be in agreeance with it first. Many members fear losing control with the decisions they make, without Congress all being controlled by the same party. If congress were to side with the opposing party on an issue that could benefit many lives, they won’t because they feel that they will not be loyal to their colleagues’ beliefs and stand on that