Another Government Shutdown?
Posted by Dan Pfeiffer on September 10, 2010 at 10:33 PM EDT
Speaking to hundreds of activists gathered at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington for the Faith and Freedom Conference, Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga.) urged the audience to stand with House Republicans when they go toe-to-toe with President Barack Obama.
Westmoreland said his caucus presuming it takes control of the House come November aims to pass spending bills that Obama is likely to veto. He predicted Republicans would not be able to override such a veto, creating a standoff that could cause Congress to grind to a halt.
If the government shuts down, we want you with us, he said.
The congressman recalled a similar shutdown that took place in 1995, when Newt Gingrich also a speaker at the conference was serving as House speaker.
The White House Blog | The White House ... t-shutdown
United States federal government shutdown of 1995
On November 14, major portions of the federal government became inoperative. The Clinton administration later released figures detailing the costs of the shutdown, which included losses of up to $800 million in salaries paid to furloughed employees. The first budget shutdown was resolved with the passage of a temporary spending bill, but the underlying disagreement between Gingrich and Clinton was not resolved, resulting in the second shutdown.
DeLay writes in his book No Retreat, No Surrender:[3]
"He told a room full of reporters that he forced the shutdown because Clinton had rudely made him and Bob Dole sit at the back of Air Force One...Newt had been careless to say such a thing, and now the whole moral tone of the shutdown had been lost. What had been a noble battle for fiscal sanity began to look like the tirade of a spoiled child. The revolution, I can tell you, was never the same."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Sta ... wn_of_1995
Posted by Dan Pfeiffer on September 10, 2010 at 10:33 PM EDT
Speaking to hundreds of activists gathered at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington for the Faith and Freedom Conference, Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga.) urged the audience to stand with House Republicans when they go toe-to-toe with President Barack Obama.
Westmoreland said his caucus presuming it takes control of the House come November aims to pass spending bills that Obama is likely to veto. He predicted Republicans would not be able to override such a veto, creating a standoff that could cause Congress to grind to a halt.
If the government shuts down, we want you with us, he said.
The congressman recalled a similar shutdown that took place in 1995, when Newt Gingrich also a speaker at the conference was serving as House speaker.
The White House Blog | The White House ... t-shutdown
United States federal government shutdown of 1995
On November 14, major portions of the federal government became inoperative. The Clinton administration later released figures detailing the costs of the shutdown, which included losses of up to $800 million in salaries paid to furloughed employees. The first budget shutdown was resolved with the passage of a temporary spending bill, but the underlying disagreement between Gingrich and Clinton was not resolved, resulting in the second shutdown.
DeLay writes in his book No Retreat, No Surrender:[3]
"He told a room full of reporters that he forced the shutdown because Clinton had rudely made him and Bob Dole sit at the back of Air Force One...Newt had been careless to say such a thing, and now the whole moral tone of the shutdown had been lost. What had been a noble battle for fiscal sanity began to look like the tirade of a spoiled child. The revolution, I can tell you, was never the same."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Sta ... wn_of_1995
