Boehner finally gets passage of compromise bill; Senate Dems kill it w/o reading it

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John Boehner twisted more and more Republican arms, wangling compromise after compromise from them, until he finally had enough votes to get it passed in the House. It was then taken to the Senate, where the Democrat majority killed the bill immediately without taking the time to even read it.

This is the third major bill on the Budget, that the Republican majority in the House has passed.

The first one (the "Ryan plan") was voted down quickly by the Senate's Democrat majority.

The second one ("Cut Cap and Balance"), which polls showed was strongly favored by large majority of Americans, was tabled by the Senate Democrats, who refused to even debate it, effectively killing the bill.

The third bill was heavily loaded with compromises by the House Republican majority, such as removing the requirement for the House and Senate to pass a Balanved Budget amendment, and passed by the slimmest of margins. As noted above, Senate Democrats killed it within minutes without even reading it.

As these things normally go, it shouldn't be too long before we hear the next set of Democrat screams that the Republicans are the ones who aren't compromising, and that it's Republicans' faults that we are about to miss paying our bills, right on schedule.

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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/house-passes-boehner-debt-ceiling-plan-223457649.html

House passes Boehner’s debt ceiling plan–and Senate puts it on ice

by Chris Moody
Political Reporter

After a grinding week of negotiations in the House of Representatives, the chamber's GOP majority finally approved Speaker John Boehner's plan to increase the nation's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling just ahead of the the Aug. 2 deadline for its expiration. And in short order, the Democratic-led Senate voted to table the House-passed measure in favor of a proposal advanced by Senate majority Leader Harry Reid. The Senate's maneuver now sets up a House vote over the weekend on the Reid proposal--and a fresh round of battling in Congress.

The final vote on the Boehner plan was 218 members--all Republicans--voting for the bill, with 210 against. Passage of the Boehner plan came a day after House leaders had originally intended to hold a vote on the measure--and after several days of intensive lobbying and arm twisting by Republican lawmakers.

Faced with the threat that Republican leaders wouldn't be able to secure enough votes within their caucus, the party postponed the floor vote until House leaders could convince enough of their own to come on board. After several failed attempts to bargain with the remaining holdouts, Boehner on Friday morning offered an amendment in return for Republicans support that would allow for a vote on a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

It worked.

Even the most hardline Republicans left a closed-door meeting with the caucus Friday morning with the announcement that they had changed their minds and would support the Speaker's plan.

The bill would raise the federal debt limit by about $900 billion in return for $917 billion in across-the-board reductions in projected government spending. The measure would force Congress to vote again on the debt limit in six months, setting the stage for yet another national debate over government spending and debt. Republicans needed 218 votes to pass.

Senate Democratic leaders vowed before the vote that the bill would collapse in the upper chamber.

"Boehner's bill dies tonight," House Majority Leader Harry Reid's spokesman Adam Jentleson announced on Twitter Thursday afternoon when it was thought the House would vote on the bill in just a matter of hours. "Forever."


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Re: Boehner finally gets passage of compromise bill; Senate Dems kill it w/o reading

It would be better for Congress to agree on nothing and cause us to hit the debt ceiling next week, then agree on something less than the cuts demanded by S&P and wind up with a credit downgrade.
 
Re: Boehner finally gets passage of compromise bill; Senate Dems kill it w/o reading

How bout this,,G.O.P wont negotiate any futher until Harry Reid resigns. When you leave Mr Reid then were talk and negotiate.
 
Re: Boehner finally gets passage of compromise bill; Senate Dems kill it w/o reading

I guess you misunderstand the word compromise...its where both sides get some of what they want and lose some...not one the far right fights it out the the more moderately right...and then looks at the middle and left and says see compromise..now pass what we did.
 
Re: Boehner finally gets passage of compromise bill; Senate Dems kill it w/o reading

How about this: the House keeps p[assing bills that are the bare minimum they can gert enough votes for, with as many concessions as possible toward the Dems' side, and wait for the enate to say ANYTHING about any concessions on their part.

In fact, it's all they CAN do. And as long as the Senate majority Dems keep simply killing bill after bill with no attempt to negotiate or compromise on anything, it's all the House SHOULD do.
 
Re: Boehner finally gets passage of compromise bill; Senate Dems kill it w/o reading

How about this: the House keeps p[assing bills that are the bare minimum they can gert enough votes for, with as many concessions as possible toward the Dems' side, and wait for the enate to say ANYTHING about any concessions on their part.

In fact, it's all they CAN do. And as long as the Senate majority Dems keep simply killing bill after bill with no attempt to negotiate or compromise on anything, it's all the House SHOULD do.

they are...however republicans are not doing anything outside of passing things they like to make there base ok with something and pretend they are doing something...passing bills that they know going in will not pass, and ones that make it so in a few months...we have to do this all over again...

they could simply pass the same one they all passed.. a huge amounts of times under republicans...just do it..no amendments no bull...
 
Re: Boehner finally gets passage of compromise bill; Senate Dems kill it w/o reading

...passing bills that they know going in will not pass,

The bills they are getting through the House *will* pass, thru any group that wants to get govt spending under control and start using common sense. Unfortunately, that doesn't include the Govt-Uber-Alles majority in the Senate. But that's not the Republicans' fault. All they can do is pass sensible bills and wait for the Senate Dems to either (a) come to their senses, or (b) get voted out of office.

One of these things will happen. Hopefully it's the first one. But if the Dems don't want it that way, so be it.
 
Re: Boehner finally gets passage of compromise bill; Senate Dems kill it w/o reading

No one needs or wants a Constitutional balanced budget amendment. We've been 200 years without one and it's worked pretty well up until 1982 when Republicans blew us out of the water. Instead of an amendment, lets do the right thing and retire these TEA Party folks who have no idea what they are talking about.

If you think you want a balanced budget amendment, please think it through. It won't work and will wreak havoc on America and the world.
 
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No one needs or wants a Constitutional balanced budget amendment.

http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/27/p...rt-balanced-budget-amendment-to-constitution/

Poll: Large majority support balanced budget amendment to Constitution

By Jonathan Strong
Published: 12:09 AM 05/27/2011 | Updated: 3:11 PM 05/28/2011

According to a recent Sachs/Mason-Dixon poll obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller, a large majority of the public backs an amendment to the Constitution requiring a balanced budget, a reform some lawmakers say is on the table in the debt ceiling debate.

65 percent of the public supports the amendment with 27 percent opposed; 8 percent are undecided.

81 percent of Republicans and 68 percent of independents support the amendment. Even a plurality of Democrats, the party that typically resists spending cuts, back the amendment by a 45 percent to 44 percent margin.

A large plurality – 46 percent to 21 percent — also say they would be “more likely” to vote for a presidential candidate who backs the amendment, the poll shows.

Fox News Poll: Balanced Budget Amendment Favored, Obama's Stimulus Panned

By Dana Blanton

Published June 30, 2011

By 72-20 percent, most voters favor a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

By a 20-percentage point margin, Republicans are more likely than Democrats to favor a balanced budget amendment.

Among Democrats, 62 percent favor a balanced budget amendment in general, while the opposite is true if it required cuts to entitlements -- then 79 percent would oppose it.

For Republicans, on the whole 82 percent favor the amendment. When it includes program cuts GOP views are split: 47 percent still favor the amendment and 46 percent oppose it.

(yawn)

Another leftist lie disposed of. :rolleyes:

Makes you wonder, why do they keep inventing them?

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