Senate Dems Press New Front in Budget Battle
Source: Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTONSenate leaders attempting to avoid a U.S. debt default remained at loggerheads Sunday and escalated the standoff by reopening the contentious issue of automatic spending cuts, damping hopes that some of Congress's most canny negotiators would break the impasse.
As the search for a way to end the partial federal shutdown and avoid a debt crisis shifted to the Senate, Democrats made plain that one of their top priorities was to diminish the next round of across-the-board spending cuts, known as the sequester, due to take effect early next year.
Many Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), oppose retreating from those cuts. That set up a clash that seemed almost as intense as the one that caused budget talks between House Republicans and President Barack Obama to collapse Friday.
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barnabas63
(1,214 posts)..is there ever going to be any good news?
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)do you think this might be a set up...give the pukes something?
DallasNE
(7,403 posts)So why are Republicans wasting time by going back over things that were already settled in April. The Senate also passed a clean temporary debt extension bill and sent it to the house where Boehner has refused to bring it to a vote. Again, going back over turf already covered and voted on. I'm not sure what else the Senate is supposed to do. None of it makes any sense. I'm not sure why Harry Reid just doesn't tell McConnell that we've been there and done that.
The person calling the shots for the Republicans right now is Eric Cantor. Late in the night on September 30th Cantor got the House Rules Committee to change the rule on what can be brought to the floor in the House for a vote and only Eric Cantor can release a bill for a vote. Not John Boehner and not Jesus Christ -- only Eric Cantor.