Colleen M. Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, is opposed to the bill because it would “devastate important government services like food inspection, border protection and air safety,” she wrote in a letter to Cantor on Thursday.
Though she appreciates that he wants to quickly resolve the budget impasse, she has a “small problem” with his bill.
“It is my understanding that in order for a bill to become law it must be passed by the House and the Senate and signed by the President,” Kelley wrote. She suggested Cantor spend a few moments watching the clip above, a “Schoolhouse Rock” classic called, “How a Bill Becomes a Law.”
As “Bill the Bill” (“I’m just a bill”) explains to his young friend in the video, a bill begins in committee, moves to a full vote in the House of Representatives, and then “I go to the Senate and whole thing starts all over.”
Read on.
p.s. House passed the Government Shutdown Prevention Act includes a section under which the House spending plan would become law, without Obama's signature, if the Senate does not pass a budget deal.
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