Posted on 09/26/2011 5:30:52 PM PDT by cc2k
WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted Monday night to send a temporary spending bill to the House to avoid a government shutdown, Democrats and Republicans appeared to have reached a final-hour resolution to an impasse over disaster aid.
The vote in the Senate was 79 to 12 to fund the government through Nov. 18, giving the two sides more time to haggle over long-term spending levels. The Senate also approved an even shorter-term spending bill -- funding the government into next week -- by a voice vote to give the House time to reconvene and approve the followup legislation.
<snip>
"Senate Democrats have conceded that the spending level in the House-passed bill was the most responsible solution," Boehner spokesman Mike Steel said in a written statement. "If it weren't for House GOP efforts, the American taxpayers would have been on the hook for even more reckless borrowing by Washington Democrats."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Danny H needed another ride on the lightning.
Maybe someone can clear this up...???
The Compost says that dem's didn't get all the money they wanted for FEMA, but were able to strip the offsets out of the bill.
If Harry's happy...then Boehner ate it(again).
Actually, we ate it again, shoved down our throats by the Crybaby.
Reid and the Senate Democrats agreed to the House spending cap. They also did cut $1 Billion from the FEMA emergency funds passed by the house to "preserve" $1 Billion more in the "green energy" slush funds. So now we have Reid and the Democrats on record for cutting $1 billion that the Republicans approved for disaster victims, just to protect the "green jobs" scam. I'm not sure, but that could turn out to be a political point later.
Prokopton wrote:
The House wanted money cut from “green” programs to pay for the spending. Did the Senate vote for that? If not, it is another complete cave by Boehner and another win for the progressives.
Well, since the battle was fought, there were losers and bigger losers, and for the most part, Reid and the Senate Dems lost more. They agreed to the House caps, and to salvage a bit more for the "green jobs" scam, they had to cut aid to disaster victims. That might not have been the best move for them. They can try to say that "the TEA party" cut disaster funds, but the reality is that the Senate Dems cut $1 billion from what the "TEA Partiers" allocated for disaster relief.
henkster wrote:
Boehner did NOT win this round. This round should not have been fought. By continuing the practice of passing continuing resolutions instead of insisting the Mary Reid pass a budget as the House did, Boehner has surrendered to the half-assed unaccountable spending practices of the democrats.
It’s not a win at all. He should have said “we did our job and passed a budget; we invite Mr. Reid to do his job and do likewise.”
I agree with you on the other point. I was all over my Congress Critter, and I called the Speaker's office as well when they returned from the August recess. My suggestion was that at the beginning of September, they should have sent a letter to Reid saying something like this:
It's a shame that Boehner didn't apply some pressure for the Senate to start doing something.
Senator Reid,
In the House of Representatives, we've already passed 7 appropriations bills. You have 4 weeks to work on those.
Later this month, the House will consider a continuing resolution for departments where the appropriations bills have not yet been completed in the House. We hope to work with the Senate on that.
On the other hand, it will be difficult to include funding for departments that the House has already funded for fiscal year 2012. You, Senator, will be holding up funding for those departments. For example, we don't feel it's an emergency, when, for example, you've had since June 2nd to work on the Homeland Security appropriations bill that the House passed. Senator, please start working on these appropriations bills so that these departments can be properly funded after October 1, 2011, for Fiscal year 2012.
Speaker Boehner
The first step in that is for us to find some decent primary challengers in OH-5 and VA-7. What are the TEA Partiers doing in those districts?
samadams2000 wrote:
Our leadership needs to be replaced. They have presided over the looting of this country. I want them out. I want them ridiculed and if possible arrested.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.