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The Senate reconvened this afternoon and at 5 P.M. scheduled to vote on cloture on the motion to proceed to S.J. Res. 20, a resolution on Libya.
Sen. Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said that he and Senate Democrats (no Republicans allowed) will review today a draft FY'12 budget resolution by Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad. Conrad has said that his plan will be broadly based on the work of the Simpson-Bowles commission and cut the deficit by $4 trillion over a decade. The House passed its budget resolution in April. However, Senate Democrat leadership has dragged their tails.
Reid also identified that ti was time for the Senate Democrats to meet again tomorrow (without Republicans) with Obama and Vice President Biden and then on Thursday with members of Obama's economic team. With regard to the various constituents represented by Democrat Senators, makes you wonder who is speaking for the Constituents. Is it their Senator or is it the President and his keep staff making all the decisions for the Senate Democrats?
As one example, Sen. Mark Pryor (D) of Arkansas represents a state that overwhelmingly rejected Obama and his policies not once but twice. That rejection included a majority made up of Democrats, Republicans and Independents who rejected Obama as president in 2008 and then in 2010, voted out Democrat Senator Blanche Lincoln and elected three out four Republican House seats to Republicans. Is Senator Pryor going to surrender representing the people of Arkansas to the liberal left wing? Lately his track record has not looked good.
With regard to poor track records, the same can be said for other US Senators from other states. Regardless of political party, no U.S. senator or representative should be kissing the back side of any president or his administration. Don't tell us what you did 6 yrs ago, etc. Tell us what you are willing to do to stop this Obama led pending train wreck. People are tired of bailouts, union thuggery in return for campaign funds, continued federal spending on programs that should not be funded at the Federal level, threats and actions by the Obama administration of more government intervention/ interference in decisions belonging to the states or to individuals, inflation robbing our money, and the unimaginable, being involved in more wars (or the euphemisms: military action, NATO support, etc.) in the last 30 months than in the prior administration.
The House returns tomorrow, Wednesday, and is expected to continue consideration of H.R. 2219, the 2012 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, with a potential vote Thursday or Friday. Also on Wednesday, the House is also expected consider H.Res. 268, which reaffirms the United States’ commitment to a negotiated settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through direct Israeli negotiations, and H.R. 515, the Belarus Democracy Reauthorization Act.
On Thursday or Friday, the House is expected to begin consideration of H.R. 2354 the Energy and Water Appropriations Act, and H.R. 1309, the Flood Insurance Act.
Over the weekend, liberal columnist Frank Rich wrote a long piece for New York Magazine, calling on President Obama to implement more policies that could make the economy worse: more taxes and ever more government spending. Unfortunately, Rich may not have to worry, since Democrats seem determined to push more of these failed policies on the country.
Rich wrote that Obama “hit a welcome note last week when he urged some higher corporate taxes for hedge funds and the like.” And in his press conference last week, Obama said, “You can't reduce the deficit to the levels that it needs to be reduced without having some revenues in the mix.” Indeed, Democrats are fixated on tax increases. Vice President Joe Biden recently referred to “the pieces most important to us Democrats, revenue” and Talking Points Memo wrote that Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) “made clear that the talks frayed over Democrats' insistence that tax increases of some sort be part of the final deal.”
Meanwhile, Democrats are also back calling for more stimulus spending, despite the nearly $1 trillion spent on the original failed stimulus package. In his piece, Rich lamented the “the too-small stimulus” and pined for “[a] once-hoped-for WPA-style public-works program.” Democrats have been calling for new spending for weeks now. In fact, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) said that “[t]here’s very broad support” among Senate Democrats “for more infrastructure spending,” according to The Hill.
As Sen. Dan Coats (R-IN) said in the Weekly Republican Address this weekend, “The President and Democrats in Congress must recognize that their game plan is not working. It’s time to acknowledge that more government and higher taxes is not the answer to our problem.”
Democrats should be offering solutions that will create jobs and reduce the debt, not pushing policies that would do just the opposite and in fact only make our economic and fiscal problems worse.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Chairman, Republican Study Committee said today, "After celebrating Independence Day, I am reminded once again what our Founding Fathers intended for America. In the Declaration of Independence they set the framework for the American Dream. And this dream did not include a government that unfairly taxes and regulates citizens and private enterprises because of its failure to live within its means.
After focusing for the last few months on a $2 trillion or more debt limit increase, some in Washington are now talking about a smaller increase to buy another seven months or so. I believe Washington must show some discipline for once. Cuts promised today could become spending increases tomorrow unless we pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution. As a growing number of Americans have pledged, I will not consider any debt-ceiling increase – regardless of the size – without immediate cuts, enforceable caps on spending, and a Balanced Budget Amendment being sent to the states."
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