Republican Redo: House Passes Temporary Spending Bill After Minor Tweak
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On the second attempt in two days (and part an early morning), the House of Representatives narrowly passed the GOP’s continuing resolution just before 1:00 a.m. Friday morning after the Republican leadership was able to swing half of the Republican ‘nay’ votes to their favor by adding an amendment to strip $100 million from a federal loan program that funded the bankrupt Solyndra.
The razor thin vote was called by Rep. Charlie Bass at 12:49 a.m., passing 219-203, with 12 members not voting. Six Democrats joined 213 Republicans in supporting the measure.
On Wednesday evening, 48 Republicans, including 20 freshmen, voted with Democrats to bring down the vote on its first attempt.
But this time, about half of those Republicans voted back with the bulk of their party in favor of the bill.
The new offset would cut the remaining funds from the same government loan program that granted a $535 million loan guarantee to the now-bankrupt Solyndra solar company.
The bill now heads across the Capitol to the Senate, where Majority Leader Harry Reid says the bill will die a quick death Friday.
“I don’t think they will get any [Democratic votes] over here,” Reid, D-Nev., said. “This is not a high school game of I gotcha. We’re all willing to be reasonable but we’re not willing to vote unreasonably.”
House Speaker John Boehner, nevertheless, urged the Senate “to quickly pass this bill so we can send it to the president and keep our focus on the American people’s top priority: jobs.”
“This common-sense measure cuts spending for the second year in a row and protects our struggling economy from the uncertainty of a government shutdown. It provides immediate assistance to Americans impacted by natural disasters in a way that’s best for families and taxpayers. And it lets lawmakers continue the important work of removing government barriers to private-sector job growth,” Boehner said in a statement following the approval of the measure. “The Democratic-led Senate should pass it without delay.”
Two House Republicans seeking the GOP presidential nomination, Reps. Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul, missed the vote on the measure due to their attendance at a presidential debate in Orlando, Fla.
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strip $100 million from a federal loan program that funded the bankrupt Solyndra.
Well heck yes, why not. It is a perfectly reasonable bill but I guess the party of NO wants to keep those folks in the Hurricane mess suffering. Solyndra is bankrupt and there is no reason not to do this. We need this money not Solydra!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good job Republicans!
Posted by: Smartthinking | September 23, 2011, 7:00 am 7:00 am
Right on schedule, only less than a year to go to make Obama a one term president…so plots the GOP. The Party of No, plus no jobs created dispite the tax cuts of several years, record CEO bonuses and record earnings for oil and other big companies. Just continue the same strategy as the past 2.5 years, and as one other blogger stated, millions of jobs lost to put one man out of a job. Do not think that the real power brokers do not have this power. They do and they are thriving.
Posted by: Dr. A | September 23, 2011, 7:11 am 7:11 am
Good grief, you people are so blind and ignorant you cannot see the BO did that all by himself. No one has to assist his one term goal. I figured there would be bitter scouring Democratic comments eventually
Posted by: Smartthinking | September 23, 2011, 7:27 am 7:27 am
I wonder why only 6 Demos voted for the CR.
Most of the Lib Demos here were chastising Boehner for not getting it passed yesterday.
Do they want the CR or not?
Posted by: Noz | September 23, 2011, 7:35 am 7:35 am
smarthinking: BO had a lot of help…can you spell GRIDLOCK…especially when the very proposals that were supported by the GOP in past administrations were voted down this time aroud.
Posted by: Dr. A | September 23, 2011, 7:48 am 7:48 am
NOZ | SEPTEMBER 23, 2011, 7:35 AM 7:35 AM…..”Do they want the CR or not?”…… Based on the number of bills that Reid has even allowed to be debated so far, I’d say they only want to do what Obama does – blame the Republicans.
Posted by: deanbob | September 23, 2011, 8:15 am 8:15 am
deanbob | September 23, 2011, 8:15 am 8:15 am —-BINGO!
Posted by: CommonSenseParty | September 23, 2011, 8:19 am 8:19 am
Another prime time great example of why this voter will never, ever vote for a GOP candidate ever again. Absolutely NO CONCEPT of the future or where this nation needs to go. No concept of where the future energy sources will be and no corresponding idea where future jobs will be. They are blind, myopic, negative people who are too busy panderiong to a ‘dying oil culture of rich’ to do the right thing for the future of this nation. How pathetic, self-absorbed and blind the GOP has become.
Posted by: CND FOX | September 23, 2011, 8:22 am 8:22 am
CND FOX (8:22 AM); I don’t understand. You think the $100 Million should still be there for Solyndra or the like? What is it you don’t like about this bill?
Posted by: newcountryman | September 23, 2011, 8:27 am 8:27 am
You people supporting this need to re-read the article. They didn’t strip $100 million from Solyndra. They stripped $100 million from the PROGRAM that loaned money to Solyndra, among other companies. In other words, the Republicans stripped out $100 million in federal loan money for green job initiatives. Because, I suppose, they don’t believe in or want alternatives to oil being developed……
Posted by: Searambler | September 23, 2011, 8:36 am 8:36 am
As far as I can tell, the only time you hear anything from Harry Reid is when he’s actively running interference for Obama.
Posted by: newcountryman | September 23, 2011, 8:38 am 8:38 am
Congress should fund FEMA with billions of federal dollars for natural disaster relief. Federal money must be spent on Americans, not the Abu Dhabi oil cartel.
Posted by: dustin93sc | September 23, 2011, 8:39 am 8:39 am
Sea (8:36 AM); Maybe the Republicans didn’t want a pot of money sitting out there for political payback….if you get my drift.
Posted by: newcountryman | September 23, 2011, 8:40 am 8:40 am
CND FOX–”Absolutely NO CONCEPT of the future or where this nation needs to go. No concept of where the future energy sources will be and no corresponding idea where future jobs will be. They are blind, myopic, negative people who are too busy panderiong to a ‘dying oil culture of rich’ to do the right thing for the future of this nation.”— The right thing forthe future of this nation?? Are you serious? What exactly IS the right thing in your mind? Pushing approval for massive government fundingf of a “green” company that has been vetted as a failure before it even starts just so you can have a ‘photo op”.. then making sure that the bundlers who sent money to your campaign get to cut in line in front of the American taxpayers and cut their loses when the inevitable happens and the company goes belly up?/ What about that Ohio bridge the president was talking about? If its in such poor shape why did his FIRST stimulus NOT provide any money to fix it?? The unions got theirs, the DNC contributors got theirs, but as for “shovel ready jobs”? Sorry folks, there really weren’t any of those it turns out.. Now we have a JOBS bill from this POTUS.. Which we got after his latest vacation.. Hows that going?? Oh yeah, Harry reid and the senate have NOT YET brought it up for an up or down vote to send it the the Reps in the house because harry can’t even get enough DEMS to vote for it.. yet the president is still out there screaming PASS THIS BILL NOW… This administration is a JOKE.. Record # of people on Food stamps, record # of people on welfare, 16 million people unemployed with over 40% of those having been in that sitution for over a year, in August we created ZERO jobs.. ZERO…. And this idiot want to RAISE taxes on the only hope we have the private sector… New news out on the healthcare bill… At least 27 states are now projecting that in 2014 the medicare and medicaid entitlements that this bill will shift to the states will BANKRUPT them.. Way to go in regards to providing healthcare to the nation.. this bill will simply pul the rug out from under the feet of those who need the most help.. CND… do us all a favor.. take off the rose colored glasses, put down the jumbo slurpee sized glass of kool-aid and LOOK AROUND…We are sinking and the the DEMS are shooting holes in the bottom of the boat “to relieve the pressure”… LOL
Posted by: arkie vet | September 23, 2011, 10:03 am 10:03 am
SHUT IT DOWN!!!! NO MORE CHECKS FOR 6 MONTHS!!! SEE HOW THE GOVERNMENT HATERS LIKE IT WHEN THEY OR THEIR EMPLOYERS RUN OUT OF MONEY!!!!!!
Posted by: rjstolb | September 23, 2011, 10:07 am 10:07 am
Searambler–”They stripped $100 million from the PROGRAM that loaned money to Solyndra, among other companies. In other words, the Republicans stripped out $100 million in federal loan money for green job initiatives. Because, I suppose, they don’t believe in or want alternatives to oil being developed……”— what they want is jobs for AMERICANS NOW.. you get those by supporting EXISTING industrials.. NOT by pumping huge money into iniatives that will “probably create jobs 5 or 10 years down the road”… Green jobs may very well be the future, but the present day situation demands that we fix EXISTING iniatives to get people back to work NOW.. targeting green jobs now is like an unemployed person buying a new car so that they can drive across the city to apply for a job there… the right idea is to get a job nearby (that euphimism represents current industrial private sector jobs – in case I lost you).. Usethe money to buy a car… then make the drive to find a better job (second euphimism – green jobs in the future)… Not understanding the basic falicy in this “rush to go green ” approach is why we are failing to recover..
Posted by: arkie vet | September 23, 2011, 10:15 am 10:15 am
So the Republicans proudly announce the bill has passed the house and should be signed right away so the money can be allocated and prevent a shutdown but they attach codicil which they already know will not pass the Senate? Why not just pass a clean up or down vote on the issue at hand? FEMA needed the money to provide for those affected by the natural disasters so why not appropriate it instead of politicizing it? The Republicans have always tried to stifle research and development into alternative energy sources because they get millions from oil, which is also why they voted against stripping away the oil subsidies in the last budget crisis, they prefer Drill baby Drill. This isn’t a bill to defund just one company that failed, this is to defund the entire program so prevent research and development into future energy sources altogether. Yeah one company failed, but how many others are succeeding? They are funding wind energy development, solar energy development, thermal energy research, more fuel efficient engines, all kinds of things that we need to keep from becoming so dependent on oil and all of these companies doing this research are not failures. God forbid we actually wean ourselves off of oil, where would the Republicans get all those campaign contributions from then?
Posted by: jdona | September 23, 2011, 10:19 am 10:19 am
DR A—”can you spell GRIDLOCK…especially when the very proposals that were supported by the GOP in past administrations were voted down this time aroud.”— You don’t get off that easy… if you are going to make a staement like that.. then name a proposal that the republicans successfully “voted down”? especially one that they previously supported…
Posted by: arkie vet | September 23, 2011, 10:20 am 10:20 am
PASS THIS BILL NOW, HARRY REID! The obstructionist Democrat Senate is killing this country. Vote the Dems out. Of course, somehow this will be Bush’s fault or the House Republicans will be blamed for passing yet another bill. Go figure.
Posted by: s | September 23, 2011, 10:39 am 10:39 am
How many of you remember how Lake Erie used to be? The rivers that caught on fire because they were so polluted? Love’s Canal housing development? Dioxin used to to oil roads in rural areas? Low air quality that was the price to pay when living near an industrial area? Water tables contaminated with mining runoff? Thanks to those pesky environmental regulations, these incidents are fewer and far between. Is this what we want to return to all in the name of jobs, so we’re told? Personally, it is my opinion that private sector jobs will NOT be created until Obama is voted out of office. It is my opinion that jobs are being deliberately withheld in order to tank the economy. Obama didn’t do all of this all by himself as some of you insinuate. It took the party of NO in cahoots with the big oil and fianciers, who are doing quite well, thank you very much.
Posted by: Dr. A | September 23, 2011, 11:01 am 11:01 am
My post did not go through. Here it is again @arkie vet: You asked for examples. Here is one from the past: “Kaiser Health News points out something quite interesting. The health care reform proposal that President Obama just put out is remarkably similar to the Republican alternative to Clinton’s health care reform bill from 1993. That 1993 bill was sponsored by Sen. John Chafee (R-Rhode Island) and had 19 Republican co-sponsors in the Senate and two Democratic co-sponsors and was the primary alternative offered by the Republicans to Clinton’s bill.”
Posted by: Dr. A | September 23, 2011, 11:13 am 11:13 am
REPUBLICANS = The Party that only complains about debt and deficits when they no longer control the White House. All other times (when they do control the White House), it’s “party time”… LOL!
Nixon / Ford increase to the national debt = $298 billion
Carter increase to the national debt = $280 billion
Reagan increase to the national debt = $1.7 Trillion (“PARTY TIME”, after the Reagan Tax Cuts)
Bush # 1 increase to the national debt = $1.4 Trillion
Clinton increase to the national debt = $1.6 Trillion
Bush # 2 increase to the national debt = $4.9 Trillion (“PARTY TIME” after the Bush Tax Cuts)
LOL!… and what’s the Re-publi-tard-minion solution to solving our national debt problem? …. ANSWER: … “more tax cuts”…. LOL! The minions always amaze me.
Posted by: Georgie_Bushie | September 23, 2011, 11:45 am 11:45 am
HELLO!! This is only to fund through Sept. 30. On Oct. 1 they can start on the budget for the new year and increase funding if they deem it necessary.Oh, wait, I forgot, we haven’t had a budget since the Obama took office.
Posted by: Didi | September 23, 2011, 11:48 am 11:48 am
Georgie_bushie: I agree with you. What the republicans really want to do is choke off government, as much government as possible by cutting revenues and thereby justifying cutting government programs.
Posted by: Dr. A | September 23, 2011, 11:57 am 11:57 am
Let’s blame Obama for everything, right? Let’s look at this CLASS WARFARE issue. How much did you get as a raise last year or the year before? Do yourself a favor. Take your salary and give yourself a 5% raise every year starting this year. If you make $50,000 annually, it will take you over 30 years to make it to $250,000 a year. Most people will never see $250K a year in their life time. These same people who will never see $250k are still pissed that Obama wants to help them by not raising taxes on them but by RESTORING tax rates to before the Bush tax cuts on those who make $250K a year. LET ME HELP YOU … YOU WILL NEVER SEE $250K a year. AS A COUPLE, YOU WILL NEVER MAKE OVER $500K a year. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, EVER!!!! You have been brainwashed to believe that you are in the same boat with people who make hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. YOU ARE NOT!!! Changes are you NEVER will be. You are pissed just to be pissed… You don’t want to be helped.
Posted by: I'm_Mad_Too | September 23, 2011, 12:06 pm 12:06 pm
DIDI, September 23, 2011, 11:48 AM:
“Oh, wait, I forgot, we haven’t had a budget since the Obama took office.”
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LOL! ….. another Fox News dedicated viewer. “Take the Fox talking points, and run with them (without verifying anything)”.
In this day of electronic information it’s funny how people don’t check their facts before putting foot in mouth:
INSTRUCTIONS:
(1) Search Words: ………. “Budget of the United States Government: Browse”
(2) Fiscal Year 2010 Budget – White House Submitted to Congress on February 26, 2009
Fiscal Year 2011 Budget – White House Submitted to Congress on February 01, 2010
Fiscal Year 2012 Budget – White House Submitted to Congress on February 14, 2011
…. Now it’s in congresses’s hands.
Posted by: Georgie_Bushie | September 23, 2011, 12:16 pm 12:16 pm
“adding an amendment to strip $100 million from a federal loan program”
Can’t any of you read? This is not about Solyndra anymore, that is a done deal. This is about NOT funding anymore companies that may need funding and could be hiring now. This is nothing more than another GOP political game when they submit a bill that they know will not pass in the Senate and will continue the “cat and mouse” game of holding the government hostage with a possible government shutdown. Please, we are sick and tired of the GOP’s political games
Posted by: JLawson | September 23, 2011, 12:28 pm 12:28 pm
GEORGIE_BUSHIE, instead of being on here, just repeating the democratic view, go to C-span and listen what your fearless leader Harry Reid tells the Senate, he agreed to the extension to keep the country running, but now when it looks like that the majority in the senate would approve it, he is against bringing it to the floor. The party of NO (democrats) is alife and well. They don’t want spending cuts they just want to spend. From 2007 to 2010 when the democrats had the majority in the house and senate they spend 5.2 trillion dollars and now they just like to keep on spending.
Posted by: Lizzie | September 23, 2011, 12:51 pm 12:51 pm
It is unfortunate that at a time when our country need a “functioning” government the most, we have what we have now, two opposing forces that refuse to work together to keep this country strong. I hate to think what other countries may be thinking about America. We are showing just how divided we are and what is more important, keeping the other side from winning, no matter the detriment it may cause the country. This bill is set up to fail, yet it is being sold to the american people as if it is something necessary, yet still poses the possibility of a government shutdown. We really need to take a good look at who these people are in the GOP House and what their true agenda may be, because it is not about the good of this country.
Posted by: JLawson | September 23, 2011, 12:52 pm 12:52 pm
Why do Republicans feel that authorizing FEMA money has to be tied to ANY spending cuts?
Posted by: SearamblerOne | September 23, 2011, 2:20 pm 2:20 pm
Wacko right wing libertarian tea party terrorists.
Posted by: Rick Perry | September 25, 2011, 12:18 am 12:18 am
2 tea party libertarian nuts missed the vote. Michelle and Dr. No.
Posted by: Rick Perry | September 25, 2011, 12:20 am 12:20 am