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cal04's JournalBarney Frank: If Republicans Amend The Senate Deal They’ll Kill It
Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) told TPM that if House Republicans amend the Senate bill to include spending cuts they'll effectively kill the deal.
"If they do that'll kill the package," he said after a Democratic caucus meeting.
"I would not predict what these people will try to do because they are in thrall to extremists," Frank said. "But if they amend this I don't know how they think they -- an amendment basically says, our ideology is too rigid and we're not really trying to really (reach a deal)."
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"Look, the country deserves an up or down vote on the compromise bipartisan bill that passed the Senate," he told TPM. "What we're calling for is an up or down vote. Let democracy work its will. ... Let's just take this step by step." (Van Hollen)
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/barney-frank-if-republicans-amend-senate-deal-theyll
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Steve Israel ?@RepSteveIsrael
Last week House GOP left table & told Senate to get a deal. Now Senate did a deal & House GOP saying not good enuf. End the House GOP chaos
Steve Silberman ?@stevesilberman
Investigative reporter for Wired & other magazines
If it isn't obvious that House GOPers' sole priority is proving themselves incapable of governing a country, it should be.
Ezra Klein
Worth noting that Boehner's original Plan B also didn't include spending cuts, though he added some in later.
Taegan Goddard ?@politicalwire
Note to House GOPers looking to amend bill: Senate has left town and current Congress ends Thursday at noon.
Nicholas Kristof ?@NickKristof
Couldn't we switch our House of Representative with an average nursery school and get better outcomes?
Mea Culpa. I'd like to apologize to nursery school kids for comparing them to members of the House. Sorry!
Sheila Jackson Lee: Biden Emphasizes History To Dems
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He explained that he had taken a central role in the final deal because, as president of the Senate and a former long-time member there, he was in the best position to deal with GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell -- and President Barack Obama had realized that and asked the Veep to take the lead.
Biden went through the long history of GOP refusals to vote for income-tax rate hikes -- a history that goes back to 1993, long before the Tea Party was a gleam in Grover Norquist's eye. Lee agreed that it was a victory of sorts for the president to get the Republicans to move on that issue, however modestly.
Biden, according to Lee, also stressed that the debt "crisis" was largely of the GOP's making because of profligate spending in the Bush II Years. If the Democrats now have to agree to spending cuts, it will be up to the GOP to offer up its pet categories of spending -- defense in particular -- for new limits.
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Lee, a staunch liberal, said that she was undecided about how to vote -- out of concern that the deal would lead to a "hostage taking" two months from now when spending cuts are negotiated in the midst of another manufactured "crisis" -- the one over raising the debt ceiling. She said that she was concerned that a latter deal would include restrictive changes in how cost-of-living adjustments are calculated for Social Security; and that it would cut programs such as funding for housing and homeless shelters.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/01/sheila-jackson-lee-fiscal-cliff_n_2392918.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
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