House Could Vote Wednesday on Boehner Plan

[jtown1123]

From Roll Call: http://www.rollcall.com/news/house_could_vote_wednesday_on_boehner_plan-207632-1.html

According to a GOP aide familiar with the plan, the Ohio Republican will propose that in exchange for a $1 trillion immediate debt ceiling increase, Republicans will require a package of cuts to discretionary spending worth $1.2 trillion over the next decade.

The bill will also include caps on future spending and a “sequestration provision” that would force automatic cuts to spending if Congress and the administration do not meet those caps.

A joint committee would also be created with the mandate of identifying an additional $1.8 trillion in deficit reductions, which would include discretionary spending and entitlement programs. The committee’s recommendations would receive up-or-down votes in the House and Senate, and if enacted, the president would then have the authority to request an additional $1.6 trillion in debt ceiling authority early next year.

Significantly, Boehner’s plan will include two “governors” on President Barack Obama’s debt limit authority next year. Under the bill, the president’s request would have to be some percentage less than what the joint committee proposes and would have an overall cap for debt limit increase authority, so that even if the committee identifies trillions in spending reductions, Obama cannot ask for similar increases in borrowing authority.

The committee would be made up of 12 lawmakers — with each GOP and Democratic leader of both chambers appointing three committee members. The bill would eliminate the possibility of a filibuster in the Senate and would set a simple majority vote, rather than the 60 votes that have become essential to moving legislation in that chamber.

According to a leadership aide, the committee would have “incredibly broad legislative jurisdiction. Essentially anything that would help reduce the deficit.” However, while that authority would in theory extend to increasing taxes, Boehner and other Republicans will stack the deck by only appointing Members they are sure won’t agree to any tax increases. “We’ll be appointing the Members, and we won’t be appointing any Republicans that will vote for tax hikes,” a second aide said.

[Poll_Blind]

1. Oh great, we're back to the Star Chamber again.

PB

[jtown1123]

2. Yep.

[Poll_Blind]

6. I am having trouble fully encompassing just how fucked up the last few weeks...

...have been and can barely imagine what the next few hold in store. For the last week or so I have been in a kind of shock of disbelief that all this is going on.

PB

[jtown1123]

7. It's been a roller coaster, that's for sure.

[montanacowboy]

3. Bwhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

OMG, you have got to be kidding me???? Really? And what Democrat out of their minds would vote for this?

[Ruby the Liberal]

4. 5 of them voted for Cut and Paste.

[midnight]

5. A Boehner plan is an ALEC plan....

[CarmanK]

8. GET RID OF THE FILIBUSTER, I like that idea!!

Then we will have to secure the Senate in 2012 and the regain the House. Sounds like a lot of work, but the repugs have really given us a lot of ammunition to retake the country. It begins in WI in August. Benton Harbor, MI is our Poster child and banner head. Emerg Finan Managers are dictatorial and anti-democracy. They are running the town, without taxpayer consent. Also, the CEO of Whirlpool stood up and threatened the people. He told them if they didn't stop protesting and complaining and EMBARRASSING HIS COMPANY, HE WOULD MOVE JOBS ELSEWHERE!! I guess, Benton Harbor is made up of SERFS of the WHIRLPOOL fiefdom, if they don't do the LORDS commands, they will be punished. It really is a motivation for all free peoples to stand up, vote the rascals out, but I think rascals is toooooo kind. They aren't rascals, they are traitors to the people's trust and incompetent in the job they are on public payroll to perform. The REPIGS in Congress have to go. Workers UNITE!!!!