This is the Cater Daily Podcast for Monday, December 19th, 2022.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Republican Congressman Peter Meyer of Michigan is closing in on the end of his time in Congress, at least for now.

Last week we discussed what he sees as the core institutional problems in the legislative

branch, the future of his party, and the powers that ought to be reclaimed from the executive and

what's next for him. You're headed back to Congress the sort of the tail end of

your one term in Congress and you'll be deciding on either an omnibus bill or a

continuing resolution. Just for the benefit of

listeners, what's the difference and what are the political

consequences of doing one versus the other?

So the continuing resolution is just sort of a punt.

You know, it just extends the current budget we have.

There may be some additional bills that are put on,

but it doesn't really alter any of the spending levels

from what they currently are.

And so if there's community project funding, which are the new versions of earmarks,

though a lot more disclosure or a lot more conflict of interest kind of provisions that were included.

Any of those that were requested for the current omnibus for the fiscal year 2023,

which should have started in September those you know wouldn't be

included those kind of would get kind of scrapped out into whatever the next

negotiations are you know if we have the omnibus that's basically all of the appropriation bills that haven't yet been passed get rolled into one, and that actually is a bonafide budget rather than just an extension of the prior budget that was agreed to. modified budget

that was agreed to.

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