Whip Steve Scalise: House GOP Will Debate All 12 Appropriations Bills Individually, No Omnibus

realclearpolitics.com ^ | 12/7/22 | Tim Hains

[cotton1706]

House Minority Whip (who will probably be the Republican Majority Leader next year) Rep. Steve Scalise told Fox Business Network's Larry Kudlow on Tuesday that House Republicans will try to pass individual appropriations bills next year instead of passing an omnibus.

"We've got to get away from these big spending bills, it is why we have inflation and the high cost of everything now. The government went on a drunken spending spree the last two years, every bill was a trillion for this, a trillion for that. Ultimately, somebody has to pay for it," Scalise said.

"We’ve talked about doing it differently and we’ve laid out a calendar for next year to be able to bring all twelve of the appropriations bills, individually, debate each item separately, vote up or down based on the merits of what’s in it, have real fiscal restraint, make agencies justify what they’re doing with your hard-earned taxpayer dollars," Scalise told Larry Kudlow.

[cotton1706]

Now what will happen with this is that the Senate will do what it usually does - dither till September.

Then, they will threaten a government shutdown unless the House bundles everything into one bill. Then we'll have a continuing resolution till December, then they'll again want to bundle everything into one large, one vote bill.

This has been the game since 2007, to neuter the House's power over spending.

[Truth29]

Also, will McCarthy even back him?

[glorgau]

Yes! This sounds like a god start. Omnibus was always a cram down with all sorts of garbage hidden inside.

[Yogafist]

“… The government went on a drunken spending spree the last two years,”

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This sounds like selective amnesia. Does he not recall every budget during the Trump administration passed with more democrat votes than Republican? But I’m sure this plays well with the people for whom history begins every morning when they open their eyes. Go get ‘em Scalise, you’re a budget Hawk!

[SERKIT]

Oh no! “Regular Order”! We can’t have THAT!!!! /sarc

[pas]

Can we get them done early in the year instead of the end of the year?

[aumrl]

“will try”
A good start - if they stick with it

[cotton1706]

“Can we get them done early in the year instead of the end of the year?”

The House can. But the Senate will have no desire to, because their INTENTION is an Omnibus, that is, the ENTIRE government’s funding in ONE vote, forced, at the point of a gun, with maximum pressure brought to bear, on September 30th (end of fiscal year) or just before Christmas.

And they do this EVERY year. And also, even if the Senate passed separate bills, then the House and Senate would have to reconcile in a Conference Committee, and the Democrats would filibuster the choice of conferees (which they’ve done before, and Mitch was all for that by the way since that was an excuse not to go to conference and bundle everything into one bill).

It’s all a game. And it’s been this way since Pelosi took over the House (and Schumer took over head of tactics in the Senate at the same time).

Regular order is out the window, because Regular order is a check to power, and they want to eliminate checks to THEIR power.

[Zman]

Should never have reached the point where relying on an omnibus bill was an easy fallback position.

[ridesthemiles]

LINE ITEM VETO is long overdue

[lurk]

Separate the spending bills into individual votes. One item per page, voting one page at a time.

And yes, that would take until Mothers Day.