Obama seeking more control over budget

[robinblue]

Source: washington post




Obama seeking more control over budget

By Michael D. Shear
President Obama wants more control over the country's budget, and plans to ask Congress for it this week.

Obama will be requesting an alternative to the line-item veto known as rescission, which would give him -- and future presidents -- the power to submit a package of changes to spending bills that Congress would be required to vote on, up or down.

The Reduce Unnecessary Spending Act of 2010 would be the latest attempt by a president for more spending control since the line item veto was struck down as unconstitutional in 1998. Since then, presidents have urged Congress to give them what most governors have.

But members of Congress in both parties are reticent to give away what they see as one of their most prized responsibilities -- control over the spending. That makes the Obama proposal a tough climb on Capitol Hill..................

Read more: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/05/obama-seeking-more-control-ove.html?hpid=topnews

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NO NO NO.

The president has enough power already-and I am talking of both parties.

[WinkyDink]

1. Operative term: "and future presidents." YEAH, LET'S GIVE JEB THIS GIFT.

[proudohioan]

2. Yes, that's the part that scares me....

not with what Obama would do with more power, it's those future presidents that scare me. Obama can only serve 2 terms, and there is no guarantee that after 2016 there will be a Democrat in office.

[valerief]

3. But this might mean AT LEAST 54% of discretionary spending WON'T go to WAR.

OMG!!!! That would be a whore Congress disaster!!!!

:sarcasm:

[Trillo]

4. Give congress the line-item veto.

Not the Executive Branch. The Executive Branch has far too much power versus earlier decades and centuries, and even with that power, the Gulf oil leak gusher continues.

If congress had the line item veto, the only legislation that would pass would be the line-items most all legislators agreed with.

[jsamuel]

5. too much power in the exec branch already

[bahrbearian]

6. Unitarian Executive

[Odin2005]

7. NO, the president should NOT be a DICTATOR!