The Hill:House Democrats favor new budget vote(budget-reconciliation bill)

[Pirate Smile]

House Democrats favor new budget vote
By Jeffrey Young

House Democratic leadership is adamant that another vote be held to clear the budget-reconciliation bill that is in limbo because of clerical errors.

Although President Bush signed the bill on Wednesday, a discrepancy between the House-passed and Senate-passed version appears to indicate that the $39 billion deficit-reduction measure has not been enacted into law.

"Something this serious ought to be debated and voted on in the House," said a Democratic leadership aide.

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No Democrats in either chamber voted for the budget reconciliation conference agreement. The chief points of contention were spending reductions in healthcare, education and other programs.


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[Wordie]

1. Recommended!!! What a stroke of luck that typo was!

Here's a link to contact your congressional representatives, to urge them to re-write this budget to protect critical social programs:

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt

[Geoff R. Casavant]

2. I haven't followed this as closely as I should have

But it looks to me like each chamber was voting on a different bill. Either that, or no one is bothering to read these things anymore.

[Wordie]

3. kick

[Wordie]

4. ...and a morning kick, too.

[rockymountaindem]

5. K&R

[Wordie]

6. Capitol tollfree numbers: 800-426-8073; 888-355-3588; 888-818-6641

Just ask for your representative, and the operator will connect you.