"Press release"-- My discussion of Path to Prosperity

In follow up to yesterday's "Press release" re Path to Prosperity, this is an initiation of discussion of the House Budget Committee Path to Prosperity Document.

This discussion is in the form of a series of questions.

1. What are the prospects for the Path to Prosperity budget being enacted into law?

2. Does Congressman Ryan have a sense of a path to a compromise budget being approved?  Does he conceive of the House passage of the Path to Prosperity budget as contributing to advancing down a path to a compromise budget?

3. Same questions for Congressman Bachus:  Does Congressman Bachus have a sense of a path to a compromise budget being approved, and does he conceive of the House passage of the Path to Prosperity budget as contributing to advancing down a path to a compromise budget?  Or, alternatively, does Congressman Bachus have no sense about the foregoing, and is he relying on Congressman Ryan's sense about reaching a compromise budget?

4. What kind of sense does Congressman Bachus have about all the various ways the Path to Prosperity budget would affect all his various constituents in the 6th Congressional district?   If the Path to Prosperity budget in fact proceeded through the legislative process, what sense does Congressman Bachus have about the extent to which his various constituents in the 6th Congressional district would, in the course of the legislative process, learn about the various ways the Path to Prosperity budget would affect them?

5.  My next question relates to persons in the 6th Congressional district (and in every Congressional district) who hone in on provisions of the Path to Prosperity budget that specially affect them and who make determinations of the extent to which they are favorably or unfavorably affected.  In the course of the legislative process of getting a budget enacted, does lobbying and importuning of their respective Congressmen by all such persons (either to keep favorable provisions or change unfavorable provisions) create a significant obstacle to Congress reaching a budget agreement?