Boehner: Non-Partisan CBO Confirms House Democrats’ Bill Tops $1.1 Trillion

house.gov ^ | 1/27/09 | John Boehner

[death2tyrants]

Boehner: Non-Partisan CBO Confirms House Democrats’ Bill Tops $1.1 Trillion

Washington, Jan 27 - House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today issued the following statement on a letter from Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Douglas Elmendorf to Budget Committee Ranking Republican Paul Ryan (R-WI), in which he noted that the federal government’s interest costs related to the legislation would amount to $347 billion between 2009 and 2019, bringing the total of the congressional Democrats’ massive spending bill to more than $1.1 trillion:

“It’s official: the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has confirmed that the congressional Democrats’ legislation is the trillion dollar spending bill that we all feared it would be. It would be irresponsible to pass this massive debt onto our children and grandchildren, and Republicans will continue fighting for their interests – and the interests of all taxpayers. President Obama began this process with the hope of producing a bipartisan plan to create jobs. What congressional Democrats have put on the table is a wasteful and unfocused package that will create plenty of government programs and projects – but not nearly enough new, good-paying jobs. The American people deserve better than the one trillion dollar spending bill that the House will vote on tomorrow, and Republicans will continue reaching out to President Obama to craft a plan that reduces wasteful spending and helps create jobs through fast-acting tax relief for middle-class families and small businesses.”

[death2tyrants]

1.1 Trillion! Hopefully it fails.

[ken21]

this is totally insane.

[icwhatudo]

How much was the Iraq war again? The war that the libs said bankrupted America?

[St. Louis Conservative]

We know this bill is going to pass. We just need to make this a rehash of 1993 when Clinton pushed through his tax increases without a single Republican vote. Make the Democrats OWN this disaster.

[Danae]

At least in Iraq we took out a tyrant guilty of murdering Millions, these jerks are murdering US! And calling it GOOD! WTF?

[Danae]

Oh HELL YA!

[Lurker]

noted that the federal government’s interest costs related to the legislation would amount to $347 billion between 2009 and 2019,

Assuming of course that the tax cheat now running the Treasury can actually sell some more paper to countries with even more stupid voters than the USA.

[TheThinker]

With 2.5 Billion dollars going to ACORN, we will have an army of Obama community organizers and local politicians.

He's the only politician with his own reelection funded fully by taxpayers and it will be a successful monopoly if this bill passes.

It smacks of the Politburo.

Welcome to the United States of Obamaland.

[mojitojoe]

If they pass that with a single cent in it for ACORN I give up.

[BigSkyFreeper]

At the rate it’s going, if ALL the members of the House GOP vote against this bastard, it will still pass the House.

There are 274 co-sponsors of this bill and most of them are Democrats.

Our only hope is the Senate which confirmed a tax cheat to the Treasury by a 60-34 vote.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Well, see, they were arguing outrageous spending on a just war. We're arguing against wasteful spending on such things as:

$44 million for construction, repair and improvements at US Department of Agriculture facilties

$245 million for maintaining and modernizing the IT system of the Farm Service Agency

$50 million for repairs to NASA facilities from storm damage

$400 million for "habitat restoration and mitigation activities" at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

$350 million for State Broadband Data and Development Grants

$1.8 billion for Rural Broadband Deployment Grants

$1 billion for Rural Wireless Deployment Grants

$650 million for Digital-to-Analog Converter Box Program

Just to name a few