In 2021, in the EP Trail-Gazette we wrote “Solar in Schools for Essential Education and Energy”. The article does not appear to be available in the digital EP Trail-Gazette archives. It was published in print on page 5A on Friday, May 7, 2021. This year we are looking at what we wrote and updating the […]
programs. it s probably as painless a way but i would not support cutting social security and medicare in order to preserve the tax cuts and what we have done in this kind of sequential budget that we are dealing with. congressman, i want you to help me understand something. krystal referenced the no budget, no pay provision. they won t be paid with no budget by april 15th and sounds good and i m sure the american people are like, wow, they re doing something but 27th amendment of the constitution says no, you can t do. no law varying the compensation of services of senators and representatives shall take effect. why would you tell the american people we won t get paid until we pass a budget when you can t do that? there s provision in there to deal with that and that says you won t get paid until the end of the congressional session and so ultimately you would be paid and so that makes sense for a group