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House Passes 6-month Spending Bill


Posted: Sep 13, 2012

The House voted Thursday to put the government on autopilot for six months, precluding a shutdown through the election and postponing a potential showdown on GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan's agency budget cuts until next spring when Republicans hope to hold more power in Washington.

Ryan returned to the Capitol from the campaign trail to vote for the half-year measure, even though it spends billions of dollars more than the Wisconsin lawmaker's budget plan, which has helped define the tight race for the White House.

The bipartisan 329-91 vote for the measure sends it to the Senate, which is expected to clear it next week for President Barack Obama's signature, capping a year of futility and gridlock despite a hard-fought budget deal last summer.

The measure funds the day-to-day operating budgets of Cabinet agencies that are financed annually by Congress through 12 appropriations bills. It would fund the government through March 27 and relieve lawmakers of the burden of trying to pass a catchall omnibus spending measure during a postelection lame duck session.

While taking the possibility of a government shutdown out of the equation, Thursday's measure leaves in place the so-called fiscal cliff — a combination of automatic spending cuts and tax hikes set to slam the economy in January. More than $100 billion in cuts to defense and domestic programs alike are looming as punishment for the failure of last year's deficit-reduction supercommittee to strike a follow-up bargain to last summer's debt and budget pact between Obama and Congress. The automatic cuts are set to hit at the same time that the Bush-era tax cuts, which were extended two years ago, are set to expire again.

It is routine for Congress to require one or more temporary spending measures, known as continuing resolutions, because Congress invariably misses the deadline for completing the annual appropriations bills.

But this year the appropriations process has collapsed completely. While the House has managed to pass seven of the 12 spending bills, the Democratic-controlled Senate has failed to pass a single one, despite optimism earlier this year that last year's budget deal could pave the way to get the appropriations process back on track.

Passage of the measure is likely to be Congress' last major act before lawmakers go home to campaign for re-election. Wrestling with how to avert the fiscal cliff is sure to dominate the lame duck session in November.

The temporary spending bill is needed to avert a government shutdown when the current budget year expires Sept. 30.

 

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Are you as frustrated as I am? - Trigger Happy

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When will we stop kicking the can down the road and actually start coming up with solutions to solve our major issues? I'm really beginning to think we should totally clean out D.C. and start over.

Let's do it!!! - boostraps

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I'm thinking the first step would be to trash "taking back our country," the tea party mantra, to "taking back our party," which should be the Republican mantra. The Republican party is better than this.

There are good viable electable Republican candidates that sat this one out because they didn't want to be at the beck and call of the tea party and they didn't want to risk failing if they were elected because they smartly know that any post Bush recovery will take more than 8 years.

And if Obama is reelected, maybe the obstructionism can stop since he can't be reelected, and all congressmen can have a record trying to solve and get credit for trying to addresss major issues rather than reject anything that has the Obama seal on it.

Just a musing on my part... Presidential term of 6 years. No reelection.

Okay...just curious as to how my post - Trigger Happy

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of cleaning out D.C. and starting anew got turned into bashing the republican party and leaving Obama in office? Both parties are guilty for the situation we find ourselves in. Any incumbent needs to go and we just need to find new people to represent us, IMO.
I didn't take her post that way - (just my opinion)
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She didn't trash the whole Repub party, just - the tea party repubs SM
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I know there are some qualified intelligent repubs out there. Just tonight I saw John McCain get "scolded" by hannity because he dared to be reasonable and would not go into the gutter.
I don't want to trash - bootstraps
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It's just my opinion that the far right is not a viable representation of the Republican Party going forward.
I did not mean to bash. - bootstraps
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You said DC. Both parties occupy.
my apologies. I thought you were inviting a discussion - boostraps
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sorry if I presented an unacceptable scenario. now I know better.
Unacceptable scenario in it's bias and attacks - KICK COMMIE OBAMMIE TO THE CURB
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