| ROGERS: REID’S REFUSAL TO MAKE SERIOUS SPENDING CUTS PUTS BUDGET NEGOTIATIONS IN PERIL | |
| April 4th, 2011 – -
Rogers: Reid’s Refusal to Make Serious Spending Cuts Puts Budget Negotiations in Peril
WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers today called on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to put aside political games and budget gimmicks to come to a final budget agreement that includes real, substantive spending cuts to help put the nation on a more sustainable fiscal path.
The statement by Chairman Rogers follows:
“Leader Reid not only failed to bring any budget work to completion last year, but has also not brought forward any plan this year to complete this long-overdue work. Now, six months into the fiscal year, he is yet again impeding progress on a final budget package.
“My Committee entered into budget negotiations last week in good faith, with a clear purpose of reducing federal spending and finally finishing this funding legislation by working together with the Senate. While we have made some progress – and hope to continue to do so – we cannot and will not falter in our commitment to concrete spending cuts that will start the downward trajectory of federal budgets for years to come.
“However, Senator Reid is attempting to abuse the budget process and limit the ability of Appropriations negotiators to complete their work – dictating the use of gimmicks and phony accounting to sneak more spending through the Congress and by the American people. It is my sincere hope that Leader Reid will let the will of the American people prevail by allowing negotiators to produce real spending reductions, prevent a government shutdown, and bring this drawn-out saga to an end.”
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April 5, 2011 at 9:56 am
gumply
That’s scary, have you listened to what they think is the right thing!!!
April 5, 2011 at 2:31 pm
JAMES
The “right” thing is NOT what they “think” needs to be done…. it is doing what is necessary to be done.
And I find it amazing that the CBO issues a report in the midst of all this budget wrangling, stating that there are $200 billion dollars in “duplicative” federal programs…………………….how hard is it to CUT the duplicative programs!!
April 8, 2011 at 10:25 am
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…………………..With tensions rising House Republicans pushed through a third long night hoping to win passage late Friday of more than 60 billion in immediate spending cuts that would severely affect agencies in the second half of this fiscal year…The leadership put the brakes on deep additional cuts but a school reform program important to President Barack Obama would be decimated by a 336 million reallocation of funds approved by 249-179. ………….Instead the 270-160 vote and the bill leave the SEC with less money than it had last year before the law was enacted…The notion that they can take on complex new responsibilities involving derivatives and hedge funds with less money is laughable said Rep Barney Frank D-Mass. who shepherded the reforms through last year as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee…The unprecedented government-wide spending bill represents an average 14 percent reduction in domestic and foreign aid appropriations all concentrated in a matter of months and with a crippling impact on many programs.