Senate GOP Appropriators Will Consume Any Rubbish Democrats Offer

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Senate GOP Appropriators Will Consume Any Rubbish Democrats Offer

 

 

Posted by Daniel Horowitz (Diary)

Thursday, May 24th at 7:50AM EDT

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As we’ve chronicled here in great detail over the past year, House Republicans are no pikers when it comes to conservative legislation. This is especially true when examining the records of House appropriators. Yet, even those big government types have [begrudgingly] agreed to abide by the spending and policy decisions of the House-passed budget when considering the 12 appropriations bills during committee markups.

As mediocre as some of the appropriations bills emanating from the House are to most conservatives, they are far superior to the bills going through the Senate Appropriations Committee. Those bills reflect the priorities and policies of Obama and Reid. That is to be expected. What is astounding and appalling is the fact that the Senate Republicans on that panel are exhibiting more solidarity with the Democrats than with their fellow Republicans in the House. In fact, not a single major Democrat proposal has been opposed by the bulk of Republican appropriators during the markups of the spending bills thus far.

It all started in April when the appropriators, led by Mitch McConnell, sided with Obama and Reid over House Republicans in voting for the higher topline spending figures for all the 12 bills. Now they are rubber stamping the individual expenditures Read More

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