The Hill News

Welcome back, Congress! During your recess, we marked the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death. It was an anniversary well worth marking, and America is safer with the world’s most notorious terrorist out of commission.
 
9/11 occurred more than a decade ago. That’s a long time. But it has been even longerâ€"sixteen years, to be preciseâ€"since Congress met the deadline for the appropriations bills needed to fund the government for the next fiscal year.
 
Instead, we’ve started each year with a series of stop-gap resolutions that prevent the government fromplanning ahead and operating efficiently.
 
While the world around us is changing rapidly, the nation’s capital is frozen in place, consumed with partisan finger-pointing and endless blame games.
 
The result of this dysfunction is exemplified by our towering national debt of more than $15.6trillion, and our projected annual budget deficit of $1.2 trillion for th! isyear.
 
That’s no way to run a country.

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