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. The Administration strongly opposes H.R. 5652, the "Sequester Replacement Reconciliation Act of 2012." The bill's unbalanced provisions fail the test of fairness and shared responsibility. At the same time as the House is advancing tax cuts that benefit the most fortunate Americans, H.R. 5652 would impose deep budget cuts that cost jobs and hurt middle class and vulnerable Americans – especially seniors, veterans, and children.
The sequester included in the bipartisan Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA) included mutually disagreeable cuts to both defense and non-defense funding. These cuts would have destructive effects on national security; on important domestic investments such as education, research and development, and rebuilding the Nation's crumbling infrastructure; and on core government programs from air traffic control to law enforcement. The threat of these destructive cuts under the BCA was intended to be a mechanism to force action by the Congress on deficit reduction.
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In contrast, the approach advanced in this bill only addresses a portion of the pending sequester, and does so in a way that imposes far greater cuts than the sequester would entail. The bill would break the agreement on discretionary spending made in last summer's budget agreement; advancing the House Budget Resolution's approach to increase defense spending and reduce non-defense spending relative to the levels agreed to in the BCA. Moreover, it would do nothing to address the reductions in discretionary spending and sequesters in mandatory programs after 2013. The bill relies entirely on spending cuts that impose a particular burden on the middle- class and the most vulnerable among us, while doing nothing to raise revenue from the most affluent.
This bill was passed by the House last May and died when that Congress expired.
The Republicans in the House have proposed bills to avoid the sequester - twice. But Harry Reid and the do-nothing Dems in the Senate won't have it.
Why can't the POTUS do something? Isn't he the leader? Didn't he win re-election?
Is all Obama capable of doing is organizing election campaigns?
If you think so.
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"They've been throwing this at the Democrats, saying we put two proposals on the table to replace the sequester," Amash told the gathering of 75-plus constituents at Gaines Township Hall. "No, we haven't."
I love it how the Dems spend all of their time trying to figure out how to blame the Republicans for the lack of leadership by the Dem-controlled Senate and Dem-controlled Presidency. You would think that the Republicans won the election!
The National Security and Job Protection Act, H.R. 6365, passed by the House back in September 2012, was not passed by the Dem-controlled Senate, although it would have avoided some of the sequestration cuts. http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-actio...ense-sequester
So, once again, we can reiterate: the Sequestration is OWNED by Obama and the Dim-D@mn-Dumb Dems in the Senate.
I love it how the Dems spend all of their time trying to figure out how to blame the Republicans for the lack of leadership by the Dem-controlled Senate and Dem-controlled Presidency. You would think that the Republicans won the election!
Read the title of this thread. Who is blaming who?
We are in this situation because John Boehner couldn't control his caucus.
The POTUS doesn't sit around in the west wing and fret about things, like some people using this forum do.
If you're outraged, contact your republican representatives and tell him or her to get their arses back to work.
Remember, bills are written by the congress, and sent to the president's desk for signature, Obama has no control over congress and what they do, he is NOT their babysitter, until you come to that realization, most of your outrage is just false, fake.
If the mandatory cuts happen, so be it, at least we'll all know the sacred cow of the R party will get cut too. The USA spends entirely too much on the military. In recent years, the Pentagon lost more than two trillion dollars which cannot be explained. That's a waste of money.
Stop making excuses for Obama's inept leadership. Presidents have influenced congress and presidents have helped craft laws... Based on your post, one would think you would blame congress and not Bush a mere 4 and a half years ago.
No, we are in this situation because Obama can't lead, and only wants to play the Blame Game.
Where exactly would you like Pres. Obama to lead the stubborn Republicans? Really, the GOP doesn't want to do what needs to be done. How is Obama supposed to make them do what they should have good enough sense to do one their own?
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