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Republicans Continue to Oppose Cost Cutting Amendments
Red Meat Conservative ^ | 02/18/11 | Daniel

Posted on 02/18/2011 5:52:35 AM PST by 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.

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

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

70 Republicans helped defeat this minuscule cut.

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


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: house; rinos; rsc; spending

1 posted on 02/18/2011 5:52:39 AM PST by red meat conservative
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To: red meat conservative

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


2 posted on 02/18/2011 5:53:59 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: red meat conservative

Sometimes you have to flush the toilet more than once.


3 posted on 02/18/2011 5:58:25 AM PST by marygam ((Obama is not a messiah, wake up folks!))
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To: marygam
Sometimes you have to flush the toilet more than once.

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

4 posted on 02/18/2011 6:02:22 AM PST by meyer (We will not sit down and shut up.)
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To: red meat conservative

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


5 posted on 02/18/2011 6:10:17 AM PST by Outlaw Woman
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To: red meat conservative

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


6 posted on 02/18/2011 6:10:52 AM PST by Huck (one per-center)
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To: red meat conservative

Why is this under Bloggers & Personal?


7 posted on 02/18/2011 6:12:45 AM PST by Outlaw Woman
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To: ExTexasRedhead

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


8 posted on 02/18/2011 6:12:48 AM PST by screaminsunshine (34 States)
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To: red meat conservative

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.


9 posted on 02/18/2011 6:13:41 AM PST by Thermalseeker (The theft being perpetrated by Congress and the Fed makes Bernie Maddoff look like a pickpocket.)
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To: red meat conservative

The RINO-Democrat Alliance rides again

did we really expect different?


10 posted on 02/18/2011 6:17:45 AM PST by GeronL (http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php for FR backup site!)
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To: red meat conservative
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.

11 posted on 02/18/2011 6:19:08 AM PST by unseen1
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To: GeronL

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..


12 posted on 02/18/2011 6:22:15 AM PST by unseen1
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To: red meat conservative

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.


13 posted on 02/18/2011 6:27:37 AM PST by EternalVigilance (Separate school and state, before it's too late.)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

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...


14 posted on 02/18/2011 6:40:56 AM PST by Russ (Repeal the 17th amendment)
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