House passed Ryan's sociopathic budge 3 times, fails to implement even once

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House Falls Apart When The GOP Actually Tries To Implement The Ryan Budget

House Republicans failed to pass an appropriations bill on Wednesday that would have cut federal transportation spending by $4.4 billion, halting their first attempt to implement the deep cuts to federal spending they have campaigned on and supported in the past.


In March, for the third time, House Republicans passed a budget outline written by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). This Ryan Budget included a radical re-do of Medicare for anyone 55 and under along with even more cuts than the previous two because it kept the sequestration in place, while shifting the defense cuts to other areas of the budget, and set a course for the budget to be balanced within 10 years.

“With this action, the House has declined to proceed on the implementation of the very budget it adopted three months ago,” said appropriations chair Hal Rogers (R-KY). “Thus I believe that the House has made its choice: sequestration — and its unrealistic and ill-conceived discretionary cuts — must be brought to an end.”

It’s much harder to vote for $4.4 billion in cuts when you — and your opponents — see how those cuts would actually hit your district and you know they have no chance of passing the Senate or being signed into law by the president.

Talking Points Memo‘s Brian Beulter called the collapse of the bill as the House breaks for its August recess “the GOP’s long-predicted comeuppance.”

“It might look like a minor hiccup, or a symbolic error,” he wrote. “But it spells doom for the party’s near-term budget strategy and underscores just how bogus the party’s broader agenda really is and has been for the last four years.”

Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) in a press conference on Thursday asserted that the votes were there to pass the bill, even though the bill’s manager, Tom Latham (R-IA), said, “I’m not sure that the votes were all there,” on Wednesday.

Boehner assured reporters that his caucus’ strategy was not falling apart, but he did call for a short-term continuing resolution to prevent a government shutdown.

“It’s clear that we’re not going to have the appropriations bills finished by September 30,” Boehner said Thursday morning. “I believe a continuing resolution for some short period of time would probably be in the nation’s interest. But having said that, the idea of operating for an entire year under a CR is not a good way to do business. And I’ve been working with [appropriations chairman Hal Rogers] to try to find a way to actually do all of these appropriations bills. I think it’s important for Congress to do its work.”

It’s so important that Boehner has the House scheduled to be session for nine whole days in September.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/house-fa...e-ryan-budget/

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Boner: Judge Congress by how many laws it repeals, not passes

"We should not be judged on how many new laws we create," the nation's top elected Republican said on CBS. "We ought to be judged on how many laws we repeal."

Congress has only passed 15 bills that have become law this year, putting it on pace to be even less productive than the preceding Congress, from 2011-2013, when 23 laws were enacted.

http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news...ot-passes?lite

So, how many laws has Boner's Congress repealed?

ZERO!

Repug Governance: As bad as they want it to be

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More Repug contributions to Excellence in Governance

House Votes to Bar I.R.S. From Enforcing Health Law

In its last action before a five-week summer recess, the House took another jab at President Obama’s health care law on Friday, voting to prohibit the Internal Revenue Service from enforcing or carrying out any provision of the law.

The bill, approved by a vote of 232 to 185, now goes to the Senate, where it has virtually no chance of approval. President Obama said he would veto the measure if it got to him.

The House has now voted 40 times, by Republican counts, to repeal or roll back some or all of the 2010 law, which is expected to provide coverage to 25 million people who lack health insurance.

Under the law, the I.R.S. will play a key role. It will provide tax credits to low- and moderate-income people to help them buy private insurance. It can impose penalties on people who go without insurance and on larger employers that fail to offer coverage to full-time employees.

Republicans said the tax agency could not be trusted.

“The I.R.S. has been abusing its power by targeting and punishing American citizens for their political beliefs,” said Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the majority leader. “This kind of government abuse must stop. The last thing we should do is to allow the I.R.S. to play such a central role in our health care.”

Under the law, Mr. Cantor said, the I.R.S. “will have access to the American people’s protected health care information.” Privacy concerns are justified, he said, because “this same agency has illegally disclosed protected taxpayer information.”

But Representative Sander M. Levin of Michigan, the senior Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee, said, “Neither the I.R.S. nor the Department of Health and Human Services will have access to medical records or other personal history, no access whatsoever.”

Mr. Levin said that Republicans, in their zeal to undo the health care overhaul, were neglecting other important issues.

“This bill is nothing more than a continuation of the Republicans’ blind obsession with repealing the Affordable Care Act,” Mr. Levin said. “Their mission is to destroy, not implement, health care reform.”

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