Hoyer To Boehner: Good Luck With That Budget Of Yours
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) publicly reminded House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) Tuesday that his goal of cutting domestic spending below sequestration levels will soon run headlong into the brick wall of the GOP’s own vote-counting problem.
Citing conversations he has had with House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY), Hoyer said he doubts the Republican votes are there for the spending cuts Boehner is proposing.
“Hal Rogers thought it was pretty difficult to mark at [pre-sequestration spending levels], as you know,” Hoyer told reporters at his weekly Capitol briefing. “I think if you ask Mr. Rogers he would say it would be very, very difficult to responsibly mark at the numbers of which Mr. Boehner speaks. So we’ll have to see whether they do that, but if they bring those appropriation bills to the floor, they’re going to be very difficult bills for them.”
Translation: Without Democratic help, this GOP leadership can’t budget, can’t fund the government, can’t really pass any of the handful of must-pass legislation that comes to the floor each year.
-snip-
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/03/hoyer-to-boehner-good-luck-with-that-budget-of-yours.php?ref=fpb
= new reply since forum marked as read
