Posted on 12/11/2013 4:45:53 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
The House Budget Committee filed the text of the new Ryan-Murray budget deal before midnight on Tuesday and the Rules Committee announced an emergency meeting at 2 p.m. on Wednesday to prepare a House floor vote on the package.
The text of the $85 billion deal is here. [77 page PDF]
The deal sets spending levels for 2014 and 2015, allowing appropriators to create a fully detailed omnibus spending package before the government shutdown deadline of Jan. 15.
The spending panel will also now have the chance to do all 12 individual appropriations bills for 2015 before the Oct. 1 end of the fiscal year and beginning of 2015. That hasn't happened in years and should allow better scrutiny of agency budgets.
The rush to move the bill comes as some conservative groups are increasing their opposition to a deal.
Heritage Action CEO Michael Needham penned a USA Today op-ed on Wednesday denouncing the pact sealed by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.).
The group does not like the fact that spending cuts are shifted to later years and that user fees on aviation go to offset non-aviation costs.
"What the deal really demonstrates, however, is the continued power of the third party in Washington — appropriators. These members, some Democrat and others Republican, forced the Party of Reagan to throw away spending cuts that could have been used as leverage for serious entitlement reforms or simply kept as savings for the hard-working American taxpayer," Needham wrote.
Ryan will be trying to sell the deal to the GOP conference at a 9 am closed-door meeting.
Looks like another government shutdown is not in the democraps best interest, or they would be all for it again
DEMAND ANOTHER SEQUESTRATION YOU COWARDS
This is window dressing, get to rehabing the entire house by reducing the entitlements.
clearing the decks so they can move on to amnesty for illegals
It looks like another major win for the DEMOCRAPS! Push the issue past the 2014 election, the same as you did with the crisis on Raising the DEBT Limit!
Raise taxes, no spending cuts (just promises to do so later), and spending increases. Washington has no intention of ever doing anything to cut or even slow the increase of government spending. The die is cast.
So this is another rush deal, to be passed before anyone has a chance to read it? That being said, it might not be a bad thing to pass it and let the Senate Dems object....it does seem to curtail spending.
Yes — stalled to run up it up to the deadline.
Christmas vacations coming is the reason for quick action nothing more nothing less.
Yep, the rushed vote is the sign for another attempted cram-down.
“I’ll gladly pay you tomorrow for a hamburger today.”
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