Senate Passes "Boldly Conservative & Balanced Budget" Verses Obama's High-Taxing Budget & Non-Existant Democrat Budgets
Today in Washington, D.C. - March 30, 2014
Current Secretary of State John Kerry dances with Iranians who hate America. And, the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admits she wiped her computer of emails & tough luck no emails for Congressional investigation and declares she will not testify.
President Obama announces he will be visiting his father's home country: Kenya. AFP reports, "During the much-delayed visit, Obama will attend a summit to encourage entrepreneurship and meet the country's controversial leader Uhuru Kenyatta.
Obama's late father was from a small village near the shores of Lake Victoria. He met Obama's white American mother in Hawaii, where they had a son before divorcing.
America's first black president has visited sub-Saharan Africa four times since taking office in 2009, but political scandal has blocked a presidential visit to his ancestral home.
For much of Obama's time in power, Kenya's president Kenyatta had been under investigation by the International Criminal Court in The Hague."
Both the House and Senate are in their Easter Recess. Both will return on Monday, April 13th.
Early Friday morning, the Senate voted 52-46 to pass the balanced Republican budget (S. Con. Res. 11) after voting on amendments for over 12 hours. In that time 41 amendments received roll call votes, and many others received roll call votes
Among the key amendments adopted to the budget were:
“Working into Friday's pre-dawn hours, senators approved the blueprint by a near party-line 52-46 vote, endorsing a measure that closely follows one the House passed Wednesday. Both budgets embody a conservative vision of shrinking projected federal deficits by more than $5 trillion over the coming decade, mostly by cutting health care and other benefit programs and without raising taxes.” . . .
“Congress' GOP budgets both matched the spending plan that Obama presented last month when it comes to defense, proposing $612 billion for next year, a 4.5 percent boost over current levels. . . . But mostly, the Republican blueprints diverge starkly from Obama's fiscal plan. While his [Obama] leaves a projected deficit exceeding $600 billion 10 years from now, the Senate plan claims a surplus of $3 billion. Over the decade, Obama would raise $2 trillion in higher taxes from the wealthy, corporations and smokers while granting tax breaks to low-income and middle-class families. He would boost spending on domestic programs including road construction, preschools and community colleges and veterans. The Senate budget would cut $4.3 trillion from benefit programs over the next 10 years, including annulling Obama's health care law, a step the president would without doubt veto.”
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Current Secretary of State John Kerry dances with Iranians who hate America. And, the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admits she wiped her computer of emails & tough luck no emails for Congressional investigation and declares she will not testify.
President Obama announces he will be visiting his father's home country: Kenya. AFP reports, "During the much-delayed visit, Obama will attend a summit to encourage entrepreneurship and meet the country's controversial leader Uhuru Kenyatta.
Obama's late father was from a small village near the shores of Lake Victoria. He met Obama's white American mother in Hawaii, where they had a son before divorcing.
America's first black president has visited sub-Saharan Africa four times since taking office in 2009, but political scandal has blocked a presidential visit to his ancestral home.
For much of Obama's time in power, Kenya's president Kenyatta had been under investigation by the International Criminal Court in The Hague."
Both the House and Senate are in their Easter Recess. Both will return on Monday, April 13th.
Early Friday morning, the Senate voted 52-46 to pass the balanced Republican budget (S. Con. Res. 11) after voting on amendments for over 12 hours. In that time 41 amendments received roll call votes, and many others received roll call votes
Among the key amendments adopted to the budget were:
- An amendment from Sen. McConnell, prohibiting the EPA from withholding state highway funds as punishment for states rejecting a plan demanded by the agency under it’s legally shaky power plant regulations, agreed to by a 57-43 vote.
- An amendment from Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO), prohibiting federal taxes on carbon emissions, agreed to by a vote of 58-42.
- An amendment from Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL), which would reimpose waived sanctions on Iran if the president cannot certify that the country is complying with an agreement oon its nuclear program, agreed to by a vote of 100-0.
- An amendment from Sen. John Thune (R-SD), permanently eliminating the estate tax, agreed to by a 54-46 vote.
“Working into Friday's pre-dawn hours, senators approved the blueprint by a near party-line 52-46 vote, endorsing a measure that closely follows one the House passed Wednesday. Both budgets embody a conservative vision of shrinking projected federal deficits by more than $5 trillion over the coming decade, mostly by cutting health care and other benefit programs and without raising taxes.” . . .
“Congress' GOP budgets both matched the spending plan that Obama presented last month when it comes to defense, proposing $612 billion for next year, a 4.5 percent boost over current levels. . . . But mostly, the Republican blueprints diverge starkly from Obama's fiscal plan. While his [Obama] leaves a projected deficit exceeding $600 billion 10 years from now, the Senate plan claims a surplus of $3 billion. Over the decade, Obama would raise $2 trillion in higher taxes from the wealthy, corporations and smokers while granting tax breaks to low-income and middle-class families. He would boost spending on domestic programs including road construction, preschools and community colleges and veterans. The Senate budget would cut $4.3 trillion from benefit programs over the next 10 years, including annulling Obama's health care law, a step the president would without doubt veto.”
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