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To: Sully- who wrote (67837)	3/26/2009 7:37:42 PM
From: Peter Dierks	2 Recommendations Respond to of 90947

House Dems Reject Every Substantive GOP Budget Amendment by Connie Hair 03/26/2009 Late last night, House Budget Committee Democrats voted to adopt President Obama’s mother of all spending bills, the Democrat’s unprecedented $3.66 trillion FY 2010 budget. No Republican voted for this economic train wreck in the making. Throughout the day, House Republicans offered amendments in an attempt to rein in this gargantuan effort to bankrupt the American people, only to have Democrats reject every single substantive GOP proposal. The House resolution now moves to the floor for a vote likely next Wednesday. Under the leadership of House Budget Committee ranking member Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), House Republicans will unveil their own budget blueprint today. HUMAN EVENTS reported yesterday that House majority leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), along with other Democrat leadership, told reporters that Democrats would not try to fast track passage of the $3,100 annual “cap and trade” energy tax on every American family by a budgetary maneuver called “reconciliation.” Despite what Democrats said, at the markup yesterday it was revealed that there were, in fact, three separate $1 billion reconciliation directives in the budget, one of them designed precisely to facilitate “cap and trade” through the reconciliation process. During a break at the committee markup for a series of House floor votes, I spoke with Rep. Ryan in an exclusive combination interview and brisk walk from the Cannon House Office Building to the Capitol, asking first about “cap and trade” and the ... Message 25526463