‘So Fricking Stupid’: Adam Smith Predicts Year-Long CR

UPDATED with more from Rep. Smith WASHINGTON: The congressional budget process is headed for “a complete meltdown” in December, and the most likely outcome is a year-long Continuing Resolution, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee believes. The government is already on a three-month CR until December, which is bad enough, said a visibly frustrated Rep. Adam Smith, but a full-year CR would be “borderline legislative malpractice, particularly for the Department of Defense.”