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Wisconsin’s progressive senator Tammy Baldwin fears a shutdown will persist with terrible results.
The Republican majority leader was booed and heckled, and his choice for committee chairman lost.
The Tea Party have their eyes on Medicare and Medicaid.
Any efforts to reduce the deficit through mandatory spending would likely be controversial, particularly in an election year, because of the effect on popular entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security. Price has not said how deficit reduction would be achieved, except that the savings would come from mandatory programs.
via The Hill.
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The House Tea Party threatens to cut #Social Security & Medicare.
The House Tea Party threatens to cut Social Security & Medicare.
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For example, the document seeks a commitment from the next speaker to tie any increase in the debt ceiling to cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
via Think Progress.
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The House GOP has its eyes on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
Let’s not forget about the first day of the 114th Congress.
It sounds like another meaningless, wonky rule change from a Congress relegated to renaming post offices. But a conservative proposal to alter how the House considers mandatory spending and lapsed programs would have dramatic consequences for the social safety net, government shutdowns, and dozens of federal departments and programs.
via Huffington Post.
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The latest proposal unveiled Thursday would allow members to vote on a stand alone measure that would cut $30 billion from mandatory spending programs like food stamps, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid before moving on to a separate vote on a budget that maintains the 2015 deal to increase overall spending to $1.07 trillion for the annual appropriations bills.
via Washington Post.
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GOP Congress should be ashamed.
On March 25, 1911, Mrs. Gordon Norrie was just sitting down to tea with a group of friends when they heard a commotion outside. One of her guests, Frances Perkins, then thirty-one, was from an old but middle-class Maine family, which could trace its lineage back to the time of the Revolution. She had attended Mount Holyoke College and was working at the Consumers’ League of New York, lobbying to end child labor. Perkins spoke in the upper-crust tones befitting her upbringing—like Margaret Dumont in the old Marx Brothers movies or Mrs. Thurston Howell III—with long flat a’s, dropped r’s, and rounded vowels, “tomaahhhto” for “tomato.”
via The Atlantic.