Senator Reid said Democrats agreed to 78.5 billion in spending cuts and policy riders!

[Better Believe It]

So what Republican riders and spending cuts are President Obama and Democratic congressional leaders agreeing too?

The details please.

[d_b]

1. I thought it was 39...

[Hamlette]

2. It is 39 (ish) but when annualized it is 78 so Ried is saying the annual budget

to try to shut up the tea party

[Better Believe It]

5. Reid once again lavashed praise on the "business community" in his remarks.

And we don't know yet what cuts will be made, who they will hurt and what policy riders have been included in this agreement.

Let's see the details of this bi-partisan agreement.

Soon.

[Better Believe It]

6. He didn't say that. Maybe that's what he meant. Don't know because we haven't seen the agreement

We need to see the details of the entire agreement reached with Republicans, the cuts and the policy riders.

[Parker CA]

9. Ezra Klein said the $78.5B is comprised of the $40B initial increase planned from 2010 to 2011

that Obama conceded at the beginning of this process, and that the additional $38.5B were cuts made on the 2011 budget. In total we're now looking at a deficit of nearly $80B that Obama and his economic team had planned for 2011 expenditures.

No word on specific cuts or riders in this final package.

[CoffeeCat]

3. Ok, wait a minute...

I thought the Democratic compromise was to only allow aroun $30 billion in cuts.

Wasn't $80 billion close to EVERYTHING that the Republicans were asking for?

And those riders were sheer hell on wheels. Totally draconian garbage...defunding the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas...stripping
funding for the new healthcare bill legislation (that effectively kills Obama's healthcare bill) and loads of other nonsense.

If the Republicans got ALL of that---or even HALF of what they wanted, then the Democrats are stupid beyond repair.

[pnwmom]

4. No, they want $100 billion period -- not annualized.

It's very different, since we're already halfway through the funding year.

[dana_b]

7. From Ezra Klein:

"thinkprogress ThinkProgress
by MMFlint
RT @ezraklein: The resolution includes rider prohibiting dc from using own $ to help women access abortions. So pp escaped, but dc didn't."

If true - this sucks big time..

[Better Believe It]

8. Reid, Boehner and President Obama statements on this bi-partisan deal

"We have agreed to an historic amount of cuts for the remainder of this fiscal year, as well as a short-term bridge that will give us time to avoid a shutdown while we get that agreement through both houses and to the President. We will cut $78.5 billion below the President’s 2011 budget proposal, and we have reached an agreement on the policy riders. In the meantime, we will pass a short-term resolution to keep the government running through Thursday. That short-term bridge will cut the first $2 billion of the total savings," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker John Boehner said in a joint statement issued after the agreement.

President Obama commended Democrats and Republicans on working together to reach a solution.

"The government will be open for business," Obama said. "That's because today, Americans of different beliefs came together again.

"In the final hours before our government would have been forced to shut down, leaders in both parties reached an agreement that will allow our small businesses to get the loans they need, our families to get the mortgages they applied for, and hundreds of thousands of Americans to show up at work and take home their paychecks on time."

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/?hpt=T2

[Better Believe It]

10. Which of the following policy riders have been approved in this bi-partisan agreement?

Policy Riders in H.R. 1
Agriculture
Consumer Protection
Defense
Education
Environment

The following are brief descriptions and locations of provisions included in the continuing resolution (H.R. 1) passed by the House of Representatives on Feb. 19, 2011. These provisions appear in the introduced version of the bill and in subsequently approved amendments. This list is not comprehensive.

Policy Riders in H.R. 1

Prohibits funds to the EPA’s Environmental Appeals Board to consider, review, reject remand or
other invalidate any permit issued for Outer Continental Shelf sources located offshore of the
States along the Arctic Coast.
Sec. 4014
Defines specifically what greenhouse gases are and prohibits the EPA from imposing regulations
on those gasses emitted by a stationary source for seven months.
Sec. 4015
Prohibits funds to implement the Klamath (California) Dam Removal and Sedimentation Study,
conducted by the US Bureau of Reclamation and the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
Sec. 4028
Prohibits funds to implement or enforce the Travel Management Rule, which would close roads
and trails on National Forest System land.
Sec. 4029
Prohibits funds for the Department of the Interior’s Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and
Enforcement (OSM) from moving forward with a proposed rule that would effectively eliminate
the Stream Buffer Zone Rule, a rule that presently allows surface mining operations with
qualified permits to work within 100 feet of a stream.
Sec. 4032
Prohibit EPA funding for enforcement of total maximum daily loads in the Chesapeake Bay
watershed.
Sec. 4033
Prohibits funds for the EPA to impose and enforce federally mandated numeric Florida water
quality standards.
Sec. 4035
Prohibits funds from being used to construct ethanol blender pumps or ethanol storage facilities. Sec. 4037
Prohibits funds to implement a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Climate Service, part of the President’s fiscal year 2012 budget request.
Sec. 4038
Prohibits the EPA, Corps of Engineers and the Office of Surface Mining from implementing
coordination procedures that have served to extend and delay the review of coal mining permits.
Sec. 4039
Prohibits funds from being used to develop or approve a new limited access privilege program –
“catch-shares” – for any fishery under the jurisdiction of the South Atlantic, Mid-Atlantic, New
England or Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council.
Sec. 4040
Prohibits funds for the study of the Missouri River projects. Sec. 4041
Prohibits funds for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Sec. 4042
Blocks funds for the EPA to implement a waiver to increase the ethanol content in gasoline from
10 percent to 15 percent.
Sec. 4043
Prohibits funds for the EPA to deny proposed and active mining permits under Section 404 (c) of
the Clean Water Act, specifically to revoke retroactively a permit for the Spruce Mine in West
Virginia.
Sec. 4044
Prohibits funds for the EPA to implement regulations to designate coal ash reside as hazardous
waste.
Sec. 4045
Prohibits funds for EPA to modify the national primary ambient air quality standards applicable to
coarse particulate matter (dust).
Sec. 4048
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Policy Riders in H.R. 1
Restricts funds from being used for the Presidential Election Campaign Fund or political party conventions.
Sec. 4004
Prohibits funding for the IRS to implement health care reform.
Sec. 1516
Prohibits funds for a White House Director of Health Care reform.
Sec. 1536
Prohibits the District of Columbia from using its own, non-federal funds to pay for abortions beyond the very limited circumstances in which federal funds are currently available (in circumstances of rape or incest and to save the life of a pregnant woman).
Sec. 1590
Prohibits the District of Columbia from using federal funds for syringe exchange programs.
Sec. 1591
Prohibits funding for sections of the Public Health Service Act.
Sec. 1820
Prohibits states from using federal funds for syringe exchange programs.
Sec. 1847
Prohibits funds to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., or any of its affiliates.
Sec. 4013
Prohibits funds to pay any employee, officer or contractor to implement the provisions of the health care reform law, stopping the Department of Health and Human Services from
Sec. 4016
Strips funding for any provision of the health care reform law.
Sec. 4017
Prohibits the payment of salaries for any officer or employee of any federal department or agency with respect to carrying out the health care reform law.
Sec. 4018
Bars funds to implement the individual mandate and penalties and reporting requirements of the health care reform law.
Sec. 4019
Prohibits funds to carry out the medical loss ratio restrictions in the health care reform law. These provisions require insurers to spend at least a certain percent of their premium revenues on medical care.
Sec. 4027
Blocks funds for Health Insurance Exchanges, a set of state-regulated health care plans offered under the health care reform law.
Sec. 4034
Prohibits funds for employee and officer salaries at the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight at the Department of Health and Human Services, created by the health care reform law.
Sec. 4047
Prohibits funds for salaries for any officer or employee of the government to issue regulations on essential benefits under section 1302 of the health care reform law.
Sec. 4049
Prohibits funds for the independent payment advisory board.
Sec. 4050
Prohibits transferring detainees from Guantanamo Bay.
Sec. 1112
Prohibits transferring detainees from Guantanamo Bay.
Sec. 1113
Prohibits constructing facilities to house detainees in Guantanamo Bay.
Sec. 1114
Prohibits funding for hiring new TSA employees.
Sec. 1614
Prohibits funding for immigrant integration programs.
Sec. 1635
Prohibits the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives from collecting information on multiple sales of rifles or shotguns to the same person.
Sec. 4030
Prohibits funding for the Sustainable Communities Initiative.
Sec. 2226
Prohibits funding for capital advances or rental assistance contracts for HUD Housing for the Elderly projects.
Sec. 2237
Prohibits funding for renewing tenant-based assistance contracts.
Sec. 2238
Prohibits funds for the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency, State and Local Programs to provide grants under the Urban Area Security Initiative.
Sec. 4002
Federal Elections
Health Care
Homeland Security
Housing
3
Policy Riders in H.R. 1
Prohibits funding for the US Ambassador's Fund for Cultural Preservation, UN Population Fund, or for foreign NGOs that use their own non-U.S. funds to provide abortion services.
Sec. 2122
Places various restrictions on Afghanistan funding.
Sec. 2124
Prohibits U.S. military assistance to Chad, due to its continued use of child conscription, consistent with the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2007.
Sec. 4011
Prohibits funds for the Overseas Comparability Pay Adjustment, an increase in pay for overseas Foreign Service Officers approved by President Obama under the supplemental appropriations
Sec. 4021
Bans foreign aid to Saudi Arabia.
Sec. 4023
Prohibits funds for UN construction within the US.
Sec. 4036
Blocks funds for the Federal Communications Commission to institute Net Neutrality rules.
Sec. 4006
Prohibits funds for the Community Connect broadband grant program administered by the Rural Utilities Service of the Department of Agriculture.
Sec. 4022
Prohibits funding for competitions for new Job Corps centers.
Sec. 1802
Prohibits funding for upgrading Congressional committee rooms.
Sec. 1904
Prohibits funding for carrying out section 19 of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act.
Sec. 1284
Prohibits Recovery Act funding for Department of Energy employees employed through the Recovery Act.
Sec. 1474
Rescinds unobligated Recovery Act funds.
Sec. 3001
Prohibits Recovery Act funds for signage.
Sec. 3002
Prohibits NASA from collaborating with China.
Sec. 1339
Prohibits Export-Import Bank funding for anyone subject to sanctions under the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996.
Sec. 2123
Prohibits funds to provide nonrecourse marketing assistance loans to mohair farmers.
Sec. 4026
Prohibits funds to pay the salaries and expenses of the following “czars,” or special presidential advisers who are not required to go through the Senate confirmation process: Obama Care Czar, Climate Change Czar, Global Warming Czar, Green Jobs Czar, Car Czar, Guantanamo Bay Closure Czar, Pay Czar and Fairness Doctrine Czar.
Sec. 4009
International
Internet & Communications
Legislative Branch
Nutrition
Recovery Act
Trade
White House
Job Training

http://www.ombwatch.org/files/budget/OMB_Watch-HR1_Policy_Riders.pdf

[drokhole]

11. That's the $39bn question. n/t

[Better Believe It]

12. I don't believe the Republican sponsored riders are even included in the 39 or 78 billion cuts!

I think it's two seperate issues.

The riders dictates restrictions on what money may be spent for but doesn't actually detail budgetary cuts.

[cui bono]

13. I think I have to go back to not paying attention anymore.

This is disgusting beyond belief. It was already disgusting when Dems conceded what they did at the beginning. Dems have NO idea how to negotiate. They're too busy trying to be nice and look reasonable, and by doing that they allow the unreasonable to happen EVERY DAMN TIME.