In praising an agreement reached this week on statutory pay-go legislation, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) asked Republicans to back the budget enforcement effort in the Senate.
Hoyer said the deal reached between senior Democrats in Congress and the White House [note that the Republicans were still locked out of the room-- Editor] would help reduce the record budget deficit and restore fiscal discipline.
"I hope Republicans will choose to be a part of offering constructive solutions for addressing the fiscal challenges facing our nation," he said in a statement. "It has received bipartisan support in the past, and I hope that it will receive bipartisan support in the Senate and the House."
Republicans have criticized the Democrats' pay-go plan, saying that it contains too many loopholes. Some Senate Democrats, including Budget Committee chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) previously criticized the House bill. Conrad, though, was part of the negotiations with the White House.
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MD can't enforce its own budget. Why listen to this old windbag?
Can anyone at this point believe or trust what any democrat says? I sure can't.
All smoke for cover for the November election. It's about raising taxes more than spending cuts.
Steny Hoyer is almost as big of a joke as his boss, San Fran Nan
The Dems want to soak us all in taxes to pay for Obama's spending over the last year, and they want the Republicans to join them so they can defuse the blame.
Ha!
Vote this corruptocrat OUT!! Get behind Charles Lollar, a true conservative!!!
To all the idealogues:
Politicians from both sides of the aisle are too chicken$h!t to make the hard choices to reduce the deficit.
Reps. are too scared to make cuts in SS or Medicare; they would lose the reliable senior citizen votes.
Dems. are too scared to cut medicaid spending or attempt to save money by reviewing the smaller entitlement programs. They also won't reconsider any of the money that went to the stimulus.
Both parties are scared to end their pork projects (although these are only a small part of the budget) and neither will seriously cut defense spending, even though our enemies are taking down $1 million tanks with $200 of explosives. We don't need advanced weapons; take care of the humans we have deployed now.
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