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White House Wants Leverage To Erase Wasteful Spending
Investor's Business Daily ^
| 5/24/2010
| Sean Higgins
Posted on 05/24/2010 4:41:39 PM PDT by Slyscribe
Sen. Obama fought the idea three years ago. But President Obama's White House urged Congress on Monday to give it new leverage to cut specific budget items.
Budget Director Peter Orszag requested that Congress pass a bill giving President Obama "expedited rescission authority." Essentially, he would be able to force lawmakers to reconsider earmarks and other spending projects they had just approved.
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KEYWORDS: lineitemveto; obama; rescission; spending
Back in January 2007 as a U.S. senator, Obama joined a Democratic filibuster against a rescissions bill.
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posted on
05/24/2010 4:41:39 PM PDT
by
Slyscribe
To: Slyscribe
Gee, I thought they were doing a lot of the wasteful spending.
What a joke.
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posted on
05/24/2010 4:44:45 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
In an unrelated story, the White House mysteriously vanished today...
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posted on
05/24/2010 4:44:51 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
To: Slyscribe
He wants it now so he can eviserate the military budget and any department’s budget he doesn’t like.
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posted on
05/24/2010 4:44:53 PM PDT
by
SatinDoll
(NO Foreign Nationals as our President!!)
To: Slyscribe
Obama needs a con?
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posted on
05/24/2010 4:47:33 PM PDT
by
Optimist
(I think I'm beginning to see a pattern here.)
To: Slyscribe
I have a one word solution for Obamao
R E S I G N
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posted on
05/24/2010 4:51:28 PM PDT
by
Carley
(WE CAN SEE NOVEMBER FROM OUR HOUSE)
To: Slyscribe
FU. Sign the bill as is or veto it back with recommendations.
This ain’t England homo.
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posted on
05/24/2010 4:59:24 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: Slyscribe
OK let me get this straight.. They have done all the wasteful spending. now he wants to stop it? take it back? get press for trying to do it? Oh I see it is get press for trying to do it. No such thing as wasteful spending for the 0ne!
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posted on
05/24/2010 5:02:46 PM PDT
by
ColdOne
To: Slyscribe
He wants to cut anything that doesn’t go to his tribe, the paramilitary unions or his cronies.
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posted on
05/24/2010 5:11:54 PM PDT
by
Stentor
To: freekitty
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posted on
05/24/2010 7:15:03 PM PDT
by
BobP
(The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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