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Reid Pulls Controversial $1.2 Trillion Spending Bill in Favor of Short-Term Budget Fi
Reid Pulls Controversial $1.2 Trillion Spending Bill in Favor of Short-Term Budget Fix
Published December 16, 2010 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., pauses while speaking with the media, after their Senate Democratic caucus, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP) Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, bowing to Republican opposition to a 1,924-page $1.2 trillion spending measure packed with earmarks, withdrew the bill and said he would work with Republican leaders on a smaller, short-term budget fix to avoid a looming government shutdown. The government already is operating on a temporary stopgap measure, set to expire at the end of Friday. Republicans had insisted on having the massive spending bill read aloud – a move that would have delayed a final vote until next week. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has offered a one-page stopgap bill that would fund the government for just the next two months. Reid said he would with McConnell to finalize such a measure. Reid, in announcing his decision, lashed out, saying that he had the support of the nine GOP senators needed to pass the measure, but suddenly that support evaporated. "This action taken by my friends on other side of aisle going to cause people to lose their job," Reid said. Related Links House GOP Pledging Weekly Spending Cut Votes -- But Is It Enough?YOU MIGHT ALSO BE INTERESTED IN 15 Fun, Easy Ways to Wrap Gift Cards Doctors Claim HIV-Positive Man Cured by Stem Cell Transplant 2010 List of Failed Banks Fed Leaves Rates Unchanged; Says Inflation Trending Lower Iran Threat to Kill American Generals Is Real, Experts Say McConnell gave a different interpretation. "He doesn't have the votes," McConnell said. "And the reason he doesn't have the votes is because members on this side of the aisle increasingly felt concerned about the way we do business." A McConnell aide said the leader "worked the phones" for days, pressing his members to quash the bill. Republicans had strongly condemned the $1.27 trillion omnibus spending bill, which would fund the government through Sept. 30, for its $8.3 billion worth of earmarks -- though some of those earmarks belong to Republicans. Defenders of earmarks point out that the money for congressional earmarks represents a tiny portion of the bill -- less than 1 percent -- and that lawmakers know the needs of their states and congressional districts better than administration bureaucrats. And just because something is in the president's budget doesn't mean that it's not pork. "If you look up earmark in the dictionary, it means 'to designate or set aside.' It is not 'in addition to,'" said Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah. "If the Congress does not exercise its constitutional authority to designate where the funds will go, the administration will usurp that authority and you will get every bit as much pork barrel spending." Such arguments, however, have been drowned out by protests from Tea Party activists and other opponents of the projects, who make fun of earmarks like $100,000 obtained by Rep. Jose Serrano, D-N.Y., to renovate the Edgar Allan Poe museum in the Bronx, a cottage where the poet lived for the final three years of his life. Other senators with earmarks in the bill after voting last month to ban them include Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.; Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga.; Richard Burr, R-N.C.; Kay Baily Hutchison, R-Texas; Bill Nelson, D-Fla.; and Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. Even avid earmarker Thad Cochran of Mississippi, the top Republican on the Appropriations Committee -- who obtained almost 300 earmarks totaling more than $500 million -- hasn't explicitly come out in support of the bill, though he's widely expected to vote with Democrats later this week to advance it. So is Ohio Republican George Voinovich, who's responsible, along with Democratic homestate colleague Sherrod Brown, for 77 earmarks totaling $94 million. Fox News' Trish Turner and The Associated Press contributed to this report Wow, seems that we are going to get down to the spending cuts the voters asked for during the Nov elections, time to cut spending to the levels before the libs took over congress as a starting point. |
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Seems Reid's own party had some defections, not just the party of no and the POTUS will now have to work with the other party, they are no longer in the back of the bus or are they holding Americans Hostage like the lib party did for 2 years, Americans voted in Nov to stop the change dead in it's tracks as the majority have notice the failed stimilus and the Health Care bill forced down our throats that is not what Americans asked for, yes the libs are sore losers now
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Seems those bluedogs you speak of have seen the writing on the wall, they went along with the POTUS and realize he has no clue in running anything other than comminuty centers and running up the largest deficts while during the 08 elections stating line by line to cut spending, he did just the opposite and Americans noticed this and voted for a change to the lies Obama has brought to us, you know the open debate of bills and no back door dealings those did not happen, oh in Chicago that is the way business is done and again Americans outside of the windy city are not to happy with this style of business. |
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After being put in the back of the bus and the president call rep hostage takers obstructing will be better than socalist policies that are breaking the bank and not creating jobs, oh according to Nancy unemployed getting benefits helps the economy, where did she go to school? That is not what I learned in while in school
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The POTUS needs to be more careful in opening his mouth as I resent that I have no input in American laws for two years and being told I am a hostage taker, seems lots of Americans feel the same way |
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Your point is the cost of freedom, or terriost on our lands committing acts of war like on 9/11/01 do cost billions and we need to eliminate them on their lands so they do not do another 9/11 on America's soils, if you were referring to something else this works for my 300 Million a day. Takes years to form a stable demorcary, look at South Korea, 1953 the war fighting was over and with not until the mid 1980s that demorcary took hold (we are still there), Americans have a short memory, and those that attacked us I will never forget and we need to continue what we are doing in the middle east
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