HOLD THE LINE, and take up individual spending bills, then just SEND THEM OVER TO THE SENATE, and if they reject them (or propose more spending-and make a big “fuss over cancer research, etc..” fund those too..then Dare them to vote against those spending bills!).
Then wait a few days (if the Senate hasn’t funded them), then we’re home free..
Heck, send separate Military, Social Security and Medicare bills to the Senate.
That’s pretty much all the voters care about.
The House of Representatives is where spending bills originate. There is something really childish with an "all or nothing" demand by the Democrats.
It does not make sense to reject a spending bill that is perfectly acceptable otherwise. Do the Democrats really care about their constituents?
During the Reagen years of seven or eight government shutdowns, nobody noticed except the affected workers. What is the big deal today?
"I did not have deficit with that budget! Not once! Never!" "
Mr. Reid seems not to remember what the Constitution says about spending bills first originating in the House, not the Senate. It is the Senate that must approve a House spending measure, not the House that must approve a Senate spending measure. Let’s follow the Constitution as written!
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., called the Republican effort a "wacky idea" that would simply "cherry-pick some of the few parts of government that they like."So, what Harry Reid is saying is that the only way that the Senate will agree to fun ANY of the Government is if the House sends them one big bill that has everything in it funded at current levels.
In other words, the House has no function in deciding where to spend money, they are on auto-pilot now.
That's not what the Constitution lays out as their respective roles though, is it.
When you look at it that way it's about more than government shutdowns now, it's about whether the House has any power.
Republicans, this is where you have the potential to have mush mouth Reid by the short hairs.
Go to every available camera and let the American people know you are trying to pass specific measures to help tourists, garbage men, blue collar workers, etc.--
and the Obama-led DemonRATS are refusing to help!
This is actually brilliant - thank you Senator Ted Cruz - by funding specific budget items it shows the American People exactly what they’re paying for. If Ried wants to shut down funding for parks let him.
The GOP should send funding measures to the Senate piecemeal (EPA last if at all) when each one is voted down in the Senate it goes on a bulletin board with the word “NYET” under it.
The White House is now also on record with a veto threat for such item-by-item funding.
We don’t need to resume spending on any stinkin’ pork, either.
Yeah, like the Dems wouldn't try the same thing. At least the Repubs are being proactive and trying something. Keep the Dems on the defensive, they don't like that.
The White House is now also on record with a veto threat for such item-by-item funding.