Pay-go makes Senate president powerful Rules. They are important
in every aspect of our lives. Rules can give those in powerful
political positions the opportunity to run things as they see
them. An excellent example of rules being used to one's
advantage is pay-go. Pay-go is a provision that allows no floor
amendment to increase the amount of expenditures in an
appropriations bill unless a like amount is reduced from some
other portion of the bill. An example would be that if you
wanted to make an amendment to increase base state aid for
education, you would have to propose deleting a matching dollar
figure from another area -- example: delete that matching amount
from health care. One group would love you, the other would be
very upset. A positive of that plan is it keeps one political
party from proposing amendments they know will not be accepted.
In the past, this would be done so a politician could say they
proposed a great plan but their opponent voted against it. The
House of Representatives has had pa