The Appropriations Process
Posted at 12:34am on Dec. 12, 2007 House Republicans Talk Tough on Spending
"Our Members Have Been Ready for This Fight All Year."
By Mark I
Republicans in the House held a conference call today on the appropriations process. The call was hosted by Minority Whip Rep. Roy Blunt and joined by Republican Study Committee Chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling. The purpose was to lay out the Republican leadership’s strategy for dealing with the omnibus appropriations bill working its way through Congress.
Last night, the cantankerous Democratic Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, David Obey (D-WI), threatened to pull all earmarks out of the bill unless Republicans agreed to negotiate on spending levels. The White House called Obey’s bluff and said that it’s position on funding for domestic programs had not changed. Blunt and Hensarling wanted to make it clear to the assembled journalists and bloggers that Republicans has “gotten the message” on spending and intended, on the House side at least, to hold Democrats to their campaign pledges of fiscal responsibility.
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Posted at 2:47pm on Dec. 8, 2007 A Bad Deal
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
I'm against this:
House Democratic leaders could complete work as soon as Monday on a half-trillion-dollar spending package that will include billions of dollars for the war effort in Iraq without the timelines for the withdrawal of combat forces that President Bush has refused to accept, House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) said yesterday.
In a complicated deal over the war funds, Democrats will include about $11 billion more in domestic spending than Bush has requested, emergency drought relief for the Southeast and legislation to address the subprime mortgage crisis, Hoyer told a meeting of the Washington Post editorial board.
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