GOP Attempt to Freeze Spending, Strip Earmarks from Omnibus Fails in House

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 6th at 12:54 PM  | 

Update: An emailer points out that the 54 Rs and Ds who abstained from voting on the motion must have made President Obama, with his history of over 100 “present” votes in the Illinois state legislature, very proud. Minority Leader John Boehner’s Motion to Recommit, which would have frozen federal spending at current levels and stripped the 9,000 un-reviewed earmarks from the $410,000,000,000.00 omnibus spending | Read More »

BREAKING: House Republicans to Force Vote on Spending Freeze, Stripping of Earmarks from Omnibus

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 6th at 10:52 AM  | 

We’ve received word that House Republicans plan to force a vote this morning on a spending freeze that would lock in federal spending at current levels and strip the $410,000,000,000.00 “omnibus” spending bill of all 9,000 “un-scrutinized earmarks.” Though certain to fail, this is another laudable move from a GOP minority that unanimously opposed the nearly $1,000,000,000,000.00 in pork-barrel waste that made up President Obama’s | Read More »