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Majority of the Congress supports Cut, Cap and Balance

By: Freedoms Truth (Diary)  |  July 22nd, 2011 at 12:28 PM  | 

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“Cut, Cap, and Balance failed in the United States Senate with four votes shy of 50. The vote was 51-46 to table.”

What this news means: Majority of the members of both Houses of Congress supports Cut, Cap and Balance. It got 46 of 100 Senators and 234 of 435 House members to support it – 52% of the members of Congress.

It’s the only viable, solid and real plan out there.  Even if the cut, cap and balance plan is not fully approved in the Senate, its strong level of support indicates that it can be and it should be the basis and framework for any final agreement to go forward. There are other vague, fuzzy, promises-now-disappointment-later plans, but they cannot be the basis of agreement in the way this can.

It’s been noticed that Senator Harry Reid, the do-nothing control freak of the Senate, failed to allow this plan to be modified in a way to make it viable for passage. Here is a comment at the LA Times:

So, rather than ammend the bill to make it into something that they could agree with, they just killed it.  How does that make any sense?  The only actual bill that has been introduced during this entire debate is now completely off the table.  Hopefully the pubilic is paying attention to this.  And where is Reid’s plan?

Yet in fact, this vote, far from actually killing it, tells us that its only 4 Senators short of being supported by both Houses.

“There’s no question that the fiscal challenges in front of us demand a bipartisan solution, but the clock’s running,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said in a floor speech Thursday night. see:  http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/59661.html#ixzz1Sqt4G4Xr

The bipartisan approach – take Cut, Cap and Balance and adjust to get some moderate Senators to vote for it. If Reid doesn’t want to go that route, then he is one driving us towards default.

 

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  • APA Guy

    …in the end it really changes nothing where the realities of the situation are concerned. This senate will never pass a bill that the president won’t sign…period…end of story.

    Mark my words…Boehner will negotiate a “compromise” with Obama that will be only marginally better than the Gang of Six plan. It will garner enough Democrat votes to BARELY pass the House, then sail through the Senate.

    Obama will take all the credit…congressional Dems will cry like babies…congressional Republicans will hail it for something it isn’t…and as usual, the American taxpayer will pick up the bill.

  • http://travismonitor.blogspot.com Freedoms Truth

    In the end, the Republican caucus is Boehner’s ‘spine’.
    If they cave, he caves. If they dont cave, he CANT cave.

    There is NO other plan out there. Gang of 6 is little more than a powerpoint presentation. NO real spending cuts, just numbers were Democrats promise to cut later. Its a farce.

    We are watching closely and do not want to be taken like was done in April. A dishwater agreement will NOT get through the House and will cause an uproar with the grassroots akin to the Amesty fiascos. Does our leadership never learn?

    The ‘compromise’ is to start with Cut, Cap and Balance and use that as a framework for an agreement.

    “?in the end it really changes nothing where the realities of the situation are concerned. This senate will never pass a bill that the president won?t sign?period?end of story.”

    … If Obama and Reid want a default, they will get it, but saying no to the CCB’s very reasonable and tame set of spending cuts and caps.

  • http://travismonitor.blogspot.com Freedoms Truth

    Speaker Boehner is singing from the “use CCB as framework” songbook. See this article from The Hill:

    ………………………

    Boehner told reporters there ?never was an agreement? with the White House on a grand bargain.

    GOP members on Friday insisted the Senate should amend ?cut, cap and balance? and send an alternative back to the House.

    Boehner claimed two-thirds of the pubic supports the plan, which would cut at least $6 trillion in spending over a decade without revenue increases. This is based on a CNN poll from this week that found 66 percent of the public favor a plan roughly like it. The same percentage also favored a plan roughly resembling President Obama’s mix of cuts and tax increases on business and the wealthy.

    ?The House has done its job, and I hope the Senate will do theirs. And if they don?t pass our version of ?cut, cap and balance,? guess what? That is what the legislative process if for. They can amend it, they can change it, they can send it back over to the House,? Boehner said.

    http://thehill.com/homenews/house/172985-boehner-we-are-not-close-to-a-debt-ceiling-deal