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- Proven by the infrastructure bill – they’ll make as many cuts as possible
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Links – They Want CutsRepublicans will burn down the house if we don’t cut spendingWasson 7/11 (“Rogers blasts Reid on spending bills, warns of shutdown crisis” http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/appropriations/237243-rogers-blasts-reid-on-spending-bills-warns-of-shutdown-crisis) The House Republican in charge of annual spending bills on Wednesday blasted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) for saying the full Senate will not take up any spending bills before the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) said the Senate is “defaulting on their most basic fiscal duty as representatives of the people of this country” and is risking a government shutdown crisis. Reid on Tuesday publicly admitted that the Senate will not vote on any of the 12 appropriations bills that are being worked on in committee. He said he cannot move the bills because House Republicans are using a different top-line spending level than that agreed to in last August’s debt ceiling deal. “Until the Republicans get real, we can't do that, because they have ... refused to adhere to the law that guides this country,” he said. Rogers said Reid's move threatens a government shutdown crisis such as plagued the country in April 2011 when both parties wrangled over a funding bill. “The 12 annual Appropriations bills cannot be swept under the rug and ignored until a more convenient political time. They can, and must, be dealt with in a judicious and responsible manner – else the nation will once again face the economic danger and instability of threats of a government shutdown,” he said. Proven by the infrastructure bill – they’ll make as many cuts as possibleKasperowicz 6/29 (Pete, “House passes $51B Transportation/HUD spending bill for 2013” http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/235633-house-passes-51b-transportationhud-spending-bill-for-2013) The House approved a bill funding the Department of Transportation and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for 2013, the sixth of 12 spending bills the House is hoping to finish before the end of the fiscal year. Members approved the bill, H.R. 5972, in a 261-163 vote. The bill, H.R. 5972, was supported by 76 Democrats, and 54 Republicans voted against it. The legislation would spend $51.6 billion in 2013, a cut of about $4 billion from 2012 levels. But as has been the case with other spending bills, several House Republicans tried unsuccessfully to cut spending further along the way. In Wednesday votes, the House rejected $4.7 million in additional cuts, including a proposal to eliminate HUD's community development block grant program, which would have saved $3.4 billion. That amendment failed 80-342, and was opposed by most Republicans. New spending bill proves they’re focused on Environmental cutsWasson 6/19 (Erik, “House spending panel unveils deep cuts to EPA” http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/appropriations/233545-house-spending-panel-unveils-deep-environmental-cuts) The GOP says the bill keeps the number of EPA personnel at 1992 levels and cuts the administrator’s office by 30 percent and the congressional affairs office by 50 percent. It also contains numerous riders that prevent environmental rules. They include riders to limit the reach of Clean Water Act regulations and block President Obama’s National Ocean Policy. The bill would also block funding for Interior Department plans to toughen protections for Appalachian streams threatened by mountaintop mining, which has already damaged or buried many waters in the region. The overall bill has increases for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service and gives haircuts to a wide range of programs from the National Gallery of Art and National Endowment for the Humanities to the National Park Service, which loses $134 million — or 5 percent. The Interior, Environment bill will be marked up in subcommittee on Wednesday. Because it, like other House spending bills, deviates from the August debt-ceiling agreement with the White House, President Obama has pledged to veto it. The standoff means that fiscal 2013 spending bills are not likely to be resolved by the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30. Last year, most of the 12 annual bills were wrapped into a giant omnibus bill that was rammed through Congress in December. There’s political momentum to save money – the parties are doing everything they canAP 7/18 (“Federal budget cuts loom as parties squabble” http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/federal-budget-cuts-loom-as-parties-squabble/article_138bef3b-d4fc-57e3-947a-d739cb8d6d7c.html) Republicans and Democrats seized on a new report estimating that automatic budget cuts will cost the economy 2 million jobs to level election-year charges that underscored the deep political divide over how to avert the looming crisis. Roughly five months until the across-the-board reductions kick in, the Aerospace Industries Association presented the report Tuesday warning of jobs losses, billions in losses to the economy and a blow to wages from the $1.2 trillion, 10-year cuts in defense and domestic programs. The trade group that represents manufacturers, New Hampshire's two senators and the mayors of Phoenix and San Diego cited the report in arguing that it was imperative that Congress act before the November election to avoid the cuts. But the chasm between the two parties remains. President Barack Obama and Democrats want tax increases on high wage earners to be part of any alternative to the cuts, known in Washington as sequestration. Republicans reject that idea, contending that it would be reckless to raise taxes as the economy struggles to recover and arguing that the president is shirking his duty as commander in chief. Transportation bill proves that republicans will backlash, triggering the linkLaing 6-20 (Keith, Staffer for the Hill “GOP unveils $51.6B DOT, HUD budget,” http://thehill.com/blogs/transportation-report/infrastructure/231197-gop-unveils-516b-dot-hud-budget) As lawmakers debate a new road and public transit spending bill, Republican leaders in the House unveiled on Wednesday a $51.6 billion budget for the departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development. The House Appropriations Committee said Wednesday that it will consider its Transportation, Housing and Urban Development budget for fiscal year 2013 in a subcommittee hearing Thursday. The draft of the proposal released Wednesday contains a $3.9 billion reduction for the agencies from 2012 spending and it is $1.9 billion less than President Obama requested for the departments earlier this year. Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ala.) said his committee had to make "smart investments" in transportation and housing development. "This bill targets taxpayer dollars where they can be best used to improve the reliability, safety, and efficiency of our transportation systems, while also holding the line on spending to help reduce the nation’s growing deficits,” Rogers said. Rodgers also said the 2013 transportation and HUD appropriations bill "funds important housing programs at responsible levels for Americans that need them, while scrubbing the HUD budget to find and eliminate excess, wasteful, or unnecessary spending.” Appropriations subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Chairman Tom Latham (R-Iowa) added that the legislation will “meet our nation’s transportation and housing needs while remaining fiscally responsible and accountable to hardworking American taxpayers. "This legislation continues my goal and dedicated work of ending the budgeting gimmicks and accounting tricks that have plagued Washington in recent years," he said. However, Democrats on the appropriations committee assailed the measure for cutting the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development departments' budgets. “As we are witnessing in Europe, austerity is not working and shouldn't be replicated here," the ranking Democrat on the panel, Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.), said in a statement released by his office. “Due to House Republican infighting over the surface transportation bill and their unwillingness to compromise in conference negotiations, our Republican majority has had to resort to place-holder language in this bill for several important transportation provisions, not least of which, the funding level for the federal highway program," Dicks continued. "The reckless partisan brinkmanship of House Republicans on this traditionally bipartisan infrastructure bill is appalling." The transportation and HUD bill does not have a "sufficient allocation," Dicks added, but he allowed that he appreciated "that our majority has made an effort to protect several important transportation and low-income housing programs." Directory: file -> view view -> Western Europe after wwii view -> Author study: paul fleischman view -> Qpa1 7ela study Guide view -> Arctic Oil/Gas Neg view -> November 1970 Approximately 150,000-500,000 deaths Bhola Cyclone Bangladesh view -> Grade Level: 6 Unit of Study: Caribbean glce view -> Citation: Duffield, Katy view -> Table of Contents Lesson # view -> Chinese Wind Energy Disad Download 154.69 Kb. Share with your friends:
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