Republican Caucus stands united against spending

A spending bill for... what? (0.00 / 0)

It kind of matters what the spending was for....

1. To immunize children against measles?
2. To build a mausoleum for Deval Patrick?
3. Other?

Yes, I could look it up, but I come to RMG to be lazy.

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by: edfactor @ Fri Jul 27, 2012 at 17:57:35 PM UTC

Supp budgets (0.00 / 0)

I have to say, that the majority party is great at bundling a whole bunch of things you'd prefer not to fund with some things that you really want to fund.  An example is the supp budget that came out after the tornado damage.  The tornado relief was $10M I believe, and the bloat was another 3-4X that.

But who in good conscience can vote against tornado relief?

It puts us in an untenable situation and amendments to reduce bloat regularly fail on nearly party line votes.

"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty." - Ronald Reagan

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by: kjkuros @ Fri Jul 27, 2012 at 18:42:25 PM UTC

A humble suggestion (0.00 / 0)

Someone in leadership should file an amendment to strip the funding for the non-controversial portion of the spending bill.  I.e. tornado funding.  Insist on a roll call.  Then you can vote against stripping the funding, in effect voting for the funding.  Then in good conscience vote against the final bill for the other things.  

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by: Rob "EaBo Clipper" Eno @ Fri Jul 27, 2012 at 18:51:06 PM UTC

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