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Showing posts with label US Congress spending. Show all posts
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Sunday, September 15, 2013

News from The Hill: Angry House Republicans demand better communication By Molly K. Hooper

News from The Hill:

Angry House Republicans demand better communication 


By Molly K. Hooper

Republican lawmakers are growing increasingly frustrated with what they say is a lack of communication from their leaders.

Both centrist and conservative members in the House believe that Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and his lieutenants could have done more earlier this year to counter the Tea Party's effort to defund ObamaCare. 

Some Republicans on Capitol Hill say such an effort is politically impossible with a Democratic-controlled Senate and a Democrat in the White House. Regardless, the rift on what to do on ObamaCare has opened up a civil war within the GOP.

That deep division is flaring at a time when fiscal showdowns are front and center following the August recess.


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http://thehill.com/homenews/house/322305-angry-house-republicans-say-gop-leaders-need-to-communicate-better


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Saturday, December 17, 2011

News from The Hill: House GOP members voice extreme opposition to Senate payroll tax plan By Russell Berman



News from The Hill:

House GOP members voice extreme opposition to Senate payroll tax plan 
By Russell Berman 
The two-month payroll tax cut extension that passed the Senate on Saturday may not be a done deal.
Rank-and-file House Republicans voiced extreme opposition to the package during a conference call Saturday afternoon in which Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) briefed them on the legislation and their options to respond, according to two sources with knowledge of the call.


One source said Boehner spoke approvingly of the deal as a win for the GOP but that three other members of the leadership team - Majority Leader Eric Cantor (Va.), Whip Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) and Conference Chairman Jeb Hensarling (Tex.) - all criticized it.


The source said that with the exception of Reps. Tom Cole (Okla.) and Walter Jones (N.C.), Boehner was the only person on the call to praise the deal.


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Monday, August 16, 2010

Frederick News-Post editorial: Politicians' tightrope

Frederick News-Post editorial: Politicians' tightrope

Originally published August 15, 2010

http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/opinion/display_editorial.htm?StoryID=108591

Any member of Congress is faced with a dilemma in this age of outrage against government spending.

On the one hand, to be seen as effective, to assure his or her constituency that he or she is doing something, money needs to flow back into the district from federal coffers.

Roads and bridges need to be built, interstates mended, businesses boosted, jobs created.

On the other hand, our lawmakers mustn't be seen to be too greedy; in fact, they must eschew government spending, take a stand against it. In extreme cases, they must reject it altogether.

It's a tightrope walk for most politicians, a delicate dance between conflicting poles.

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We can see both sides of this equation, and it was pointed out rather sharply in reporter Meg Tully's Political Notes column on Friday.

Andrew Duck, a Democrat running in District 6, fired a salvo at U.S. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett after he saw Bartlett's chief of staff, Bud Otis, in attendance at a groundbreaking for the C&O Canal Big Slackwater restoration project in Washington County. That restoration has been paid for with federal stimulus money, and the event attracted representatives of U.S. Sens. Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin, both of whom voted for the legislation.

Duck pointed out that Bartlett opposed the stimulus plan… http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/opinion/display_editorial.htm?StoryID=108591

20100815 FNPed Politicians tightrope

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2010/08/frederick-news-post-editorial.html

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