Posted on 01/01/2013 4:19:14 PM PST by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON—House Republicans are gauging whether there is enough Republican support to add spending cuts to a Senate-approved fiscal-cliff agreement as leaders moved toward holding votes Tuesday night, a senior House GOP aide said.
House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) on Tuesday presented Republicans with two options for overcoming an impasse on legislation to deal with the fiscal cliff.
The first option would be to add spending cuts to the Senate-passed bill, vote on that and send it back to the Senate, the aide said. The fallback position would be to bring the Senate-bill up as it exists, vote on it and seek to win approval for it, the aide said.
If there are enough GOP votes to pass the first approach, the House would amend the fiscal cliff bill and send it back to the Senate, the aide said. A second senior GOP leadership aide said that leaders were mulling adding $300 billion in spending cuts to the bill. Details of those cuts weren’t yet available.
One leadership aide said the additional spending cuts that are being considered had already passed the House in two separate votes this year—the most recent just two weeks ago during an earlier round of fiscal-cliff machinations.
The speaker and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R., Va.) both cautioned lawmakers about the risks in sending the bill back to the Senate, the aide said. The leaders told the lawmakers there is no guarantee the Senate would take up an amended bill.
The Senate passed the bill in an 89-8 vote in the early hours of the new year. The Senate agreement would boost income-tax rates for the first time in 20 years, maintain unemployment benefits and delay spending cuts that were part of the fiscal cliff.
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When was the last time the Democrats ever agreed to a temporary spending bill? Or a temporary tax increase?
These are the people we are counting on to defend our second amendment rights as well.
It’s not a fiscal cliff, it’s a debt and spending cliff.
No, the “News Media” doesn’t run the country. The “News Media” is owned by the dictators. They just spread the propaganda the dictators tell them to spread.
What is the news media’s “fiscal cliff”? How will the country go over a cliff? did it yesterday as midnight passed?
Why has everyone been talking about this bs like parrots? no one knows what it is. It’s nothing but media lies.
I don’t disagree that it’s BS, but when no one sets the record straight, it become reality. That’s how we got the current President.
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