Balanced Budget Amendment Dies in the House of Reps

[J.E.D]

Another non-jobs-related bill dies in Boehner's fractured House.

Balanced Budget Amendment Fails In House Vote

WASHINGTON -- The latest Republican push for a balanced budget amendment that would force massive spending cuts to the country's social safety net died in the House of Representatives Friday, brought down by lawmakers who argued Congress can balance the budget on its own.

Requiring a two-thirds majority to pass under the Constitution, the measure failed 261-165, with several Republicans voting with the majority of Democrats against the amendment.

Analysts had warned that instituting the proposed balanced-budget requirements would likely force cuts of greater that 17 percent within seven years of the amendment's ratification. Such cuts could mean slashing Social Security by $1.2 trillion and Medicare by $750 billion by 2022, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

The Friday vote was held as part of the compromise to hike the nation's debt limit this past summer -- a deal that also produced the deficit-cutting super committee that now seems deadlocked.

With the nation's debt surpassing $15 trillion this week and exceeding $1 trillion annually for several years, conservatives thought they had a chance to pass the amendment, but even some Republicans opposed it -- most prominently, House Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier (R-Calif.), who said that Congress had proved it didn't need to change the Constitution to even the books when it balanced budgets during the Clinton administration.

 

[WillowTree]

Hey1 pervert! Balancing the budget is evil to you why? exactly?

 

[naturegirl]

This one should have died, it was a bad bill. It had no spending cap...............so I'm glad it died, they did the right thing.

 

[FactFinder]

Balanced Budget Amendment Dies in the House of Reps

Another example of smoke & mirrors show. lacking any substance or fidelity to their Constitutional duty. They should all be ramrodded out of Congress if not tarred & feathered.

 

[J.E.D]

Hey1 pervert! Balancing the budget is evil to you why? exactly?

Shut up, you dumb ****.

 

[Conservative]

Another non-jobs-related bill dies in Boehner's fractured House.

we'll just count that against the 15 job related bills PASSED by a BIPARTISAN vote in the House, which are now sitting gathering dust on Reid's desk, shall we?

 

[J.E.D]

Another non-jobs-related bill dies in Boehner's fractured House.

we'll just count that against the 15 job related bills PASSED by a BIPARTISAN vote in the House, which are now sitting gathering dust on Reid's desk, shall we?

Sure, if by 'bi-partisan' you mean a couple of Dems voted for the bills, and by 'jobs-related bills' you mean more tax cuts for the rich and more attempts to deregulate. Though, outside of the right-wing echo chamber, those aren't actually jobs bills.

 

[occupied]

Republicans passed something they called "the JOBS act" LOL it was an attempt to grab the federal money allocated for extended unemployment benefits to spend on other things, it also would have made people without a diploma or GED ineligible for benefits at all. JOBS bill my ass.

 

[Caroljo]

Hey1 pervert! Balancing the budget is evil to you why? exactly?

Shut up, you dumb ****.

Wow...very intelligent response! I'm impressed!!!!

 

[J.E.D]

Hey1 pervert! Balancing the budget is evil to you why? exactly?

Shut up, you dumb ****.

Wow...very intelligent response! I'm impressed!!!!

That's all she's worth.