From Stark
U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Everett, has issued a statement slamming House Republicans’ spending priorities, which he says would protect defense spending while slashing help for the poor and elderly.
Larsen’s press release:
WASHINGTON—Rep. Rick Larsen, WA-02, today (Thursday, May 11) voted to preserve food aid for low-income families and protect senior services in a budget debate today. Larsen voted against a Republican bill that seeks to eliminate automatic cuts to defense spending and replace them with greater cuts to domestic spending. The bill, which passed the House on a 218 to 199 vote, would undo the bipartisan Budget Control Agreement signed into law last August.
“House Republicans could not be more clear about where they stand. They want to shelter the richest Americans and let out-of-control spending continue at the Pentagon, all while cutting vital services for seniors, students and middle class Americans,” Larsen said.
“The bill Republicans approved today would give the Defense Department a free pass while cutting Meals on Wheels for 1.7 million seniors, cancer screenings for hundreds of thousands of women, and reducing or eliminating food stamps for nearly 50 million of the most vulnerable Americans.
“The ideological and stubborn support for unfettered growth in defense spending is as irresponsible as it is unnecessary. The Government Accountability Office recently reported that major defense programs had more than $44 billion in cost overruns last year. The Republicans now want to throw $8 billion more on top of that. We need to reshape the force for 21st century challenges, not just keep throwing good money after bad.
“Virtually every member of Congress I know agrees that we should replace automatic spending cuts with a structured deficit reduction package. I have long advocated for a bold and balanced approach to cutting the deficit. That will include a mix of spending cuts in defense and domestic spending as well as increasing revenue through fairer tax rates for the highest earners and elimination of tax subsidies to oil and gas companies and big agribusiness. The Democratic budget that I voted for would preserve vital job-creating investments in our transportation infrastructure and maintain support for students to go to college and seniors and veterans to get quality health care.”
End press release
Larsen’s district includes the city of Bellingham.
At least the house R’s can pass a budget, whereas the Senate D’s won’t even allow a vote of one.
Here’s how it is suppose work when the R’s control the house and the D’s the Senate, R’s pass their budget, the D’s pass their’s and then there is negotiation and compromise, what we got now is the D’s won’t even walk up to the plate when it is time for them to bat! Striking out without taking a swing, don’t ya know!
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
BTW, I’s like the new internet layout for the paper.
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“negotiation and compromise”
That’s a good one, dog! I thought we were talking about the Republican Congress.
Hi AFY:
I’m liking it too. From what I hear most of the feedback we’re getting about it is positive. It’s seems to be loading faster on my computers, using Google Chrome.
JP, Agree on the faster for sure.
Missy methinks there’s still a guy name Reed in command of the Senate who should & could allow a budget to be voted on.
IMHO both domestic and military could used some cutting, here’s how it’s suppose to work, the R’s like to cut the wasteful domestic spending & the the D’s the military waste, methinks they both need cutting, but the D’s aren’t even coming to the plate and in the mean time we are getting this:
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
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Just like a Conservative to consider women’s health, school lunches, and food stamps for the poor wasteful.
All while supporting unwanted military programs that are nothing more than pork for some legislator’s district.
There is pork on all sides, but the really big reason is you see; I’s for smaller government, you want to know why?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n9zB-zbFM0&feature=player_embedded
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
Hey, M_U can you explain why the Democrats have not presented a budget (as required by law) so that negotiations could begin?
Unfortunately for the conservative narrative, some of us still remember. And some of us have an eye for context. The conservative narrative relies on short attention spans, liberally applied propaganda, and those who have forgotten what a mess Obama was handed; and yet he has done what he said he would. He turned it around. He guided us through a deep recession, a perilous world and he did it by trying to compromise. He did it with an ear to the 99%. Has he changed the world? Does he have any control over gas prices. No. That boom and competition for resources is also a hallmark of the Republican right and their off shoring corporate and oligarchical brethren.
The Republicans did one thing well. They lied and they obstructed. And they tested the
boundaries of treason with ill informed wars, war crimes, and games played with our foundations, like our credit rating. The so-called conservative narrative is a puppet show of lies and elitists.
The President has submitted a budget every year and it is posted on the White House website.
You should take note that the country continues to operate under CR’s (Continuing Resolutions) at levels of spending from the previous year.
I think it’s very humorous you use the term “negotiation”, as the Republicans have never shown any willingness in actually doing that.
ooow, I loooove having Ms. Understood posting on the Politics blog.
Welcome girlfriend, what took you so long?
GOP Spending, from our Democrats Larsen, Murray, and Cantwell, and Obama, but of course never let the facts always speak for themselves…
The new and improved Party, incuding Party Boat for defense of the (D)runks!
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2017537782_noaaboat18m.html
Every one votes pig farmer, right after preschool teacher…
http://michellemalkin.com/2011/08/12/the-debt-panels-profligate-pork-patty-murray-problem/
The King was in the counting house…printing all that money….the queen was in the parlor building up the Navy?
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003948586_favorfactory14m.html
Strategic Spender…from Preschool… 4 and 20 Blackbirds baked in a pie?
Its the GOP’s fault, that a local voter flunked Peppermint Patty’s Preschool Class…
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003948586_favorfactory14m.html
And we Huff and we Puff…but we spend like (D)runken sailors, Party On!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/09/harry-reid-super-congress-murray-baucus-kerry_n_922761.html
It a bird, it’s a plane, and “thank you children” for flying Pigs, replacing the old flying tigers?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-scheer/boeing-boondoggle-pork-ca_b_830113.html
The new Herald site does load faster but it’s a scattered mess of dislocated links.
Oh well,
sun’s out so I’m done there.
The GOP Budget is a foul joke that encourages deficits and the same type of anti-American plutocracy we’ve suffered under since Bush’s tax raid.
If one Republican ever acted as if they were concerned about our nation instead of pandering to the money it takes to stay in power,
I’d fall over in a dead shock.
Missy then why won’t Reed even let there be a vote in the Senate on the president budget?
And BTW it is here, way pass a thousand days:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2r_YevgDj4&feature=player_embedded
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
Kudos to Rick Larsen who risks losing campaign contributions that typically go from the war machine to those sitting on the Armed Services Committee. This sums it up perfectly:
“The ideological and stubborn support for unfettered growth in defense spending is as irresponsible as it is unnecessary. The Government Accountability Office recently reported that major defense programs had more than $44 billion in cost overruns last year. The Republicans now want to throw $8 billion more on top of that. We need to reshape the force for 21st century challenges, not just keep throwing good money after bad.
Not one penny of any budget gets spent without the approval of Congress.
What kind of vote are you waiting for?
Obama’s budget plans are an outline of his priorities,
why would anyone be surprised that they aren’t recognized by Congress?
“…When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid brought the House package to the floor, five Senate Republicans voted no, and the measure failed 57-40. The Ryan budget, however, fared better than President Barack Obama’s plan, which the Senate rejected 97-0.
The Senate hasn’t passed a budget since April 29, 2009. As House Republican Whip Kevin McCarthy recently lamented, Washington is “the only city … where you get rewarded for doing nothing.”
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0312/saunders0032612.php3
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“…Obama has submitted his own budgets to Congress two times in the last year and no one voted to support it — including his own fellow Democrats…..
And then there is Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid’s failure to even make a pretense of being responsible….
…Reid’s failure violates the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 that requires both the House and the Senate to pass a budget resolution in the spring. The House (controlled by Republicans the last two years) has done its job; the Senate-under Democratic control for years-has failed to do their job….
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/04/obamas_laughable_scorn.html#ixzz1usy6M6ZI
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Newsflash:
“Senate rejects Obama budget in 99-0 vote
By Erik Wasson and Daniel Strauss – 05/16/12 04:30 PM ET
A budget resolution based on President Obama’s 2013 budget failed to get any votes in the Senate on Wednesday.
In a 99-0 vote, all of the senators present rejected the president’s blueprint….
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/227857-senate-rejects-obama-budget-in-99-0-vote
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