"No budget, no pay" is one provision of the House bill that temporarily suspends the national debt ceiling and that is going in front of the Senate.  In short, if the House and the Senate do not approve a budget by mid-April, their pay gets held temporarily until the bill is passed.  I have to say that I really like this.  The measure has the egalitarian appeal of forcing our representatives to live as the rest of us do, particularly since the effects of not passing a budget are directly causing working class Americans to go without their pay.  The U.S. Navy just issued a statement saying ... Read More