More on this... Responsible managers usually prioritize tasks when planning them. The legislative session is a job; the 'leaders' are the managers. They should be the ones setting the priorities with the budget being priority number ONE. NOTHING more gets done until that is complete.
If they can't do that then they need to be replaced. And if the rest of them can't play by those rules...they, too, need to be replaced. That is what would occur in any non-government job.
But this is politics and politics runs on its own bizarre, ridiculous, counter-productive, unaccountable rules.
And then there are Parties and members, and attitudes. The old days of 'working together to achieve a common goal has been long left behind. And our entire population has become more and more polarized. In my more-than 65 years I've never known such rancor, such despicable hate or divides between our population on so many issues.
Partisan Politics has Polarized our Political Process to the Point of Paralysis!