GOP sends a message on spending

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The Hill:

GOP sends a message on spending
By Walter Alarkon - 09/22/10 06:00 AM ET

Republicans will try to block money requested by the Obama administration to implement Democrats’ signature Wall Street and healthcare reforms in a stopgap spending measure expected to clear Congress next week.

The GOP is seizing on the administration’s funding request as an opportunity to send a message to voters that it wants to reduce government spending and provide a check on President Obama.

“The Democrat leadership and the Obama administration once again appear to be hijacking a routine legislative measure to ram through billions in additional spending and political priorities just weeks before the election,” said Rep. Jerry Lewis (Calif.), the top Republican on the House Appropriations Committee. “How many times do the American people have to say, ‘Enough is enough’ before these Democrat leaders start listening?”