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GOP chairman: No waste in $1.3 trillion spending bill
The Washington Times ^ | March 22, 2018 | Stephen Dinan

Posted on 03/22/2018 10:41:31 AM PDT by detective

House Republicans’ spending chief told his colleagues Wednesday that there is no waste in the $1.3 trillion spending bill lawmakers are rushing through Congress this week.

“We’ve worked to make sure not a dollar is wasted,” Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, New Jersey Republican, said as he defended the massive bill before the House Rules Committee, pushing back against bipartisan frustration from lawmakers who said they couldn’t stomach voting on a 2,232-page bill with less than 24 hours’ time to read it.

But no less than President Trump disagreed with him, taking to Twitter to say he “had to waste money on Dem giveaways” in the bill in order to get his own military spending increases.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: budget; frelinghuysen; omnibus; spendingbill; swampspendingbill; waste
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To: detective

Seriously? There are about 520 liberal Democrats in congress. That much is clear.


61 posted on 03/22/2018 2:08:23 PM PDT by Antoninus ("In Washington, swamp drain you.")
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To: hal ogen

To them no waste means money in the bank to them pass the buck means to me.


62 posted on 03/22/2018 2:10:26 PM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: detective

Republicans are the majority party and the Democrats are the minority party.

The minority party gets all they want, but the majority party comes up short.

Put simply, we have a problem.


63 posted on 03/22/2018 2:24:48 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: detective

Handing their balls on a stick to Democrats as near as I can tell.


64 posted on 03/22/2018 2:49:02 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: detective

“House Republicans’ spending chief told his colleagues Wednesday that there is no waste in the $1.3 trillion spending bill lawmakers are rushing through Congress this week.

“We’ve worked to make sure not a dollar is wasted,” Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, New Jersey Republican”


You know something, Rodney, people don’t like to be lied to, especially in a way that implies that they are so incredibly stupid that you can tell them ANYTHING and they’ll believe it. The reaction that most people I know would have to that would be, “I was born in the morning, but not YESTERDAY morning.”


65 posted on 03/22/2018 2:49:44 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: detective
“We’ve worked to make sure not a dollar is wasted,” Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, New Jersey Republican, said as he defended the massive bill before the House Rules Committee, pushing back against bipartisan frustration from lawmakers who said they couldn’t stomach voting on a 2,232-page bill with less than 24 hours’ time to read it.

IMO, it's $1,300,000,000,000 WASTED!! DO NOT PASS!!

66 posted on 03/22/2018 2:52:19 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Wm F Buckley Republican

Either enforce the Filibuster rule or kill it.


67 posted on 03/23/2018 7:13:56 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority STILL Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: pgkdan

That’s it!!


68 posted on 03/23/2018 8:03:35 AM PDT by Wm F Buckley Republican
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To: detective

“What are the Republicans doing?”

Trying to lose big in 2018, both house and senate, to make sure Trump is impeached and removed from office.


69 posted on 03/23/2018 8:08:08 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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