Republicans Continue to Oppose Cost Cutting Amendments

Red Meat Conservative ^ | 02/18/11 | Daniel

[red meat conservative]

Yesterday, we showed a list of cost cutting amendments that several dozen GOP members opposed and helped Democrats defeat.  Here are some more:

Amendment No. 410—Rep. Price (R-GA):  The amendment would eliminate funding for the “National Labor Relations Board, Salaries and Expenses,” and would transfer $233,400,000 to the Spending Reduction Account.  Funds transferred into the spending reduction account are designated as savings and lower the 302(b) allocation for a given subcommittee.  Funds transferred into the spending reduction account cannot be allocated elsewhere in the bill.

The amendment failed 176-250 with the help of 60 Republicans.  This would have been an easy $200 million in savings.  I can't fathom any Republican opposing this amendment.

• Amendment No. 457—Rep. Flake (R-FL):  The amendment would reduce funding for the “Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Children and Families Services Programs,” by $100,000,000, bringing the appropriation from $7,796,499,000 to $7,696,499,000.  The amendment would transfer $100,000,000 to the Spending Reduction Account.  Funds transferred into the spending reduction account are designated as savings and lower the 302(b) allocation for a given subcommittee.  Funds transferred into the spending reduction account cannot be allocated elsewhere in the bill.

124 Republicans, more than half the caucus, helped defeat this.  I can't understand why.

• Amendment No. 565—Rep. Bass (R-NH):  The amendment would reduce the amount of funding available to the Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services by $98,000,000 and increase funding to Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Low Income Home Energy Assistance by $50,000,000.

It seems that nobody desired to mess with an agency with such an auspicious title.

• Amendment No. 85—Rep. Pompeo (R-KS):  The amendment would reduce the level of funding for the Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, State and Private forestry by $7.4 million and increase the funding to the spending reduction account by $7.4 million.  Funds transferred into the spending reduction account are designated as savings and lower the 302(b) allocation for a given subcommittee.  Funds transferred into the spending reduction account cannot be allocated elsewhere in the bill.

70 Republicans helped defeat this minuscule cut.

• Amendment No. 43—Rep. Sessions (R-TX):  The amendment reduces funding for the “Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Capital and Debt Service Grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation” from $850 million to $403.1 million and transfers the savings into the Spending Reduction Account.  Funds transferred into the spending reduction account are designated as savings and lower the 302(b) allocation for a given subcommittee.  Funds transferred into the spending reduction account cannot be allocated elsewhere in the bill.

60 Republicans opposes the $450 million in savings.  I guess we know who would be opened to supporting Obama's high speed rail boondoggle.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Take names for 2012 and find candidates to run against these RINOs now. This is an ongoing cleaning job.

[marygam]

Sometimes you have to flush the toilet more than once.

[meyer]

Sometimes you have to flush the toilet more than once.

Short, to the point, and correct. I like it!

[Outlaw Woman]

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll072.xml

[Huck]

Good to see my guy, Scott Garrett (NJ-5) voted correctly on ALL of these amendments.

[Outlaw Woman]

Why is this under Bloggers & Personal?

[screaminsunshine]

Righto. A lot of closet RINOS will be exposed this year. It will be years of purging.

[Thermalseeker]

One of two things is true, although it could be both. Either some of these people in Congress are so stupid the ceiling will have to fall on them before they realize the dire financial situation they’ve put the country in, or, this is a deliberate attempt to bring about the collapse of the USA from the inside, IOW, Cloward-Piven.

[GeronL]

The RINO-Democrat Alliance rides again

did we really expect different?

[unseen1]

Palin endorsed and TEA party approved NC-02 Representative Ellmers voted to cut all these programs.

Palin endorsed Duffy did also.

With a conservative president all of these cuts can and will pass. With aRINO or Obama these cowards in the gop will continue to disregard the will of the people as they are given cover to do so..

We need more people like ellmers in Congress and for that we need more people like Palin to have the power to get these types of folks elected.

Palin’s coattails in 2012 will make a fundamental change in America.

[unseen1]

As of now the only power the TEA party has is to stop stuff. They have enough votes to band together to stop new things. they do not have enough power yet to change the status quo.

Hopefully that will change in 2013 until then I hope they remain strong and continue to block the new crap that Tthe RINO-dem aixs whats to pass..

[EternalVigilance]

Excellent work. Shared with everyone I know.

The great irony, of course, is that the “Republicans” standing with the Democrats here will all tell you they’re “fiscal conservatives.”

It’s a lie, and it’s always been a lie.

[Russ]

Take names for 2012? At the rate we are descending into e
economic chaos this game will be lost long before Nov. 2012.
Maybe it’s time we took to the streets like the enemies of the Republic are doing...