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发帖数: 29846 | 1 House kills Obama budget 2-413
Posted on Thursday, April 10th, 2014 at 12:09 AM.
By: Cristina Marcos
The House on Wednesday handily rejected a GOP budget alternative based on
President Obama’s 2015 spending blueprint.
It was defeated 2-413, following a pattern seen in recent years in House
votes to overwhelmingly reject Obama’s budget proposals. Today’s vote is
just slightly better than the unanimous vote against Obama’s budget in 2012.
The two “yes” votes came from Reps. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) and Jim Moran (D
-Va.), who is retiring.
Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.) offered a budget alternative based on Obama’s
budget plan as a substitute amendment to the House GOP budget. Mulvaney made
this move as a way to force Democrats to go on the record about the
president’s spending plans.
But Democrats have refused to play along, and have derided these GOP-
sponsored options as a political tactic. Earlier in the day, House Budget
Committee ranking member Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) urged fellow Democrats in
a “Dear Colleague” letter to vote against the Mulvaney amendment, calling
it a “political stunt.”
Van Hollen also argued that Mulvaney’s amendment did not truly represent
the president’s budget, and complained that the GOP had only allotted 20
minutes of debate, split evenly between each side.
“I thought we didn’t even want to take up thousand-plus page bills. And
yet now, supposedly, we’re going to debate and vote on something that is
over 2,000 pages,” Van Hollen said.
An Obama administration official agreed with House Democrats that the GOP
substitute was not an accurate reflection of Obama’s budget plan.
“The Administration would welcome votes on the actual provisions of
President’s Budget,” said Office of Management and Budget spokesman Steve
Posner. “That is not what this amendment represents, and a vote for or
against this amendment is not a vote for or against the President’s
policies.”
But Republicans rejected these complaints, and defended the idea of consider
Obama’s latest proposal as a way to let the House consider all budget
options.
“Any time the president of the United States takes the time to produce a
budget, it merits a debate,” Mulvaney said. “I think it’s a valid
discussion we should have every year.”
Mulvaney also offered the president’s budget as a mock alternative in 2012,
which was rejected 0-414. Republicans could not offer it last year because
the president’s budget was submitted late — instead, Mulvaney tried to
offer a blank sheet of paper to represent Obama’s budget, but it was not
made in order.
This year, the Obama administration proposed spending $3.14 trillion in 2015
, which is higher than the Republican plan to spend $2.92 trillion.
The House rejected two other budget alternatives on Wednesday offered by the
Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
The Congressional Black Caucus 2015 budget proposes $3.26 trillion in
spending in 2015, and it would also restore the cuts to food stampsfood
stamps and extend unemployment insurance. Democrats said it would reverse
cuts to domestic spending programs in the House GOP budget.
“This Republican budget rigs the system sos that only the children of the
well-off and well-connected can get ahead,” said Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.). | n****g
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: House kills Obama budget 2-413
: Posted on Thursday, April 10th, 2014 at 12:09 AM.
: By: Cristina Marcos
: The House on Wednesday handily rejected a GOP budget alternative based on
: President Obama’s 2015 spending blueprint.
: It was defeated 2-413, following a pattern seen in recent years in House
: votes to overwhelmingly reject Obama’s budget proposals. Today’s vote is
: just slightly better than the unanimous vote against Obama’s budget in 2012.
: The two “yes” votes came from Reps. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) and Jim Moran (D
: -Va.), who is retiring.
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