Posted on 01/01/2013 12:16:52 PM PST by Hojczyk
An overwhelming number of House Republicans in a party meeting are calling on their leadership to amend the Senate’s bill to avert the fiscal cliff and send it back to the upper chamber, according to several sources in the Tuesday afternoon meeting.
GOP leadership has not made a decision on what to do with the Senate-passed tax hike bill. They are using this meeting to listen to lawmaker concerns. They’ll have another meeting this afternoon, where a decision could come on whether to bring the bill to the floor.
One thing is clear: there is serious disdain among House Republicans for what the Senate did in the middle of the night.
Retiring Rep. Steve LaTourette of Ohio asked House Republicans why the House would “heed the votes of sleep deprived octogenarians,” according to a source in the meeting.
Amending the bill would throw into serious flux the carefully negotiated agreement between Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell and Vice President Joe Biden.
Rep. Spencer Bachus said after exiting the Republican meeting that he expects the House to amend the fiscal cliff deal and send it back to the Senate.
“I would be shocked if this bill didn’t go back to the Senate,” Bachus said.
But there are items that are already causing some concern inside the House Republican Conference. The lack of spending cuts in the legislation seems to be the top concern. Unemployment benefits, which were extended in the Senate bill, are extended for a year with no corresponding spending reductions.
Emerging as a stick point among House Republicans is how McConnell and Biden delayed the sequester — automatic spending cuts. The two-month delay is being viewed by House Republicans as inadequate in that it doesn’t reduce spending immediately.
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Lay off giving out unemployment to everyone, but BRING BACK AMERICAN JOBS.
What the heck.
Work.
What good does it do to send jobs elsewhere, if we’re supporting people here?
Stop it. Bring back American jobs.
Dems hate it because they wanted to raise taxes for those making 250K(Apparently to a progressive turd, if you make 250K your rich) I really hope this bill fails miserably..it doesn’t cut spending, not one single penny..all it does is raise taxes
I believe this thing will crash & burn.
“One thing is clear: there is serious disdain among House Republicans for what the Senate did in the middle of the night.”
Cool - reject it and send the Senate their own bill - and Zero can choke on that cheesey “victory” speech he just gave.
Maybe he can go talk to Rep Tom Cole who said a deal is a deal and it wouldn’t be fair to the Senate. I’m sure that’s the heartbeat of his constituency - let’s be fair to the Senate. Yes, let’s be fair to the Harry Reid’s Senate!
They should do that and “compromise” in the middle, $20 in Cuts for $2 in Tax Increases.
I could live with that as long as it included the Obamacare Taxes as well.
I hope your right
There will be a PR price to pay, no matter what.
There will be a price to pay at the ballot box, too.
Republicans need to remember that the PRIMARY comes BEFORE the General, and they stand to lose more by ticking off their base!
Also? Get this nasty stuff out of the way NOW! Do not “kick the can down the road” again, only to have it pop up right before the next election!
And, Use the “Debt Limit” fight to further cut spending.
I’m sure Bachmann has the “cajones” to stand up to this. Hopefully, she can inspire the others.
Thanks. That’s what I thought. Wonder how long you have to be re-employed to get back into the 99 week deal if you are laid off again.
I’d say ObamaCare is a tax, so no ObamaCare ever!
The lack of spending cuts in the legislation seems to be the top concern. Unemployment benefits, which were extended in the Senate bill, are extended for a year with no corresponding spending reductions. Emerging as a stick point among House Republicans is how McConnell and Biden delayed the sequester -- automatic spending cuts. The two-month delay is being viewed by House Republicans as inadequate in that it doesn’t reduce spending immediately.
If they don’t do anything with it by the 3rd(?) when the new Congress is seated, isn’t all of this pretty much ‘erased’ anyway?
Boo freakin hoo.
The bill sent over from the Senate is a totally dismantled House bill, only using the bill number, since the Constitution requires all expenditures to initiate in the House. Someone has the gaul to threaten against CHANGING BACK to the original bills contents? That's sportin' a pair of ten-pounders if I've ever heard of one.
In CA, the unemployment comp period already approved just keeps running, you just don't get a check in the weeks when you new job income exceeds your weekly unemployment amount.
If you are laid off again you immediately get your weekly check without the one week waiting period on the original claim. (This helps honest job seekers who will take any work offered including temp jobs.)
When the approved period runs out, you can apply to the state to extend your claim for another approved period up to 99 weeks total, if the Feds are funding and the state agrees to that funding.
Let us go over the cliff. I have a new calculation. I know longer worry about what is best for the economy. I just measure who suffers the most.
The cliff will hurt me but it seems to hurt the liberal states, and the wind, ethanol, and movie industries the hardest.
We have lost the debate. If the rich east/west coast libs want taxes let’s give it to them good and hard. Quit bailing out the liberal states with targeted deductions and an escape form the AMT.
Only agree to taxes with no loopholes.
Wow. Doesn’t sound like there’s much incentive to work for long if you can manage to get by on unemployment....then there’s always food stamps which are easier to get now. If you are young, unemployed, and can manage to live at home or share housing with other unemployed people, you could get by quite easily on other peoples money I would think.
Thanks for the info.
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