“senators who vote against the debt deal will be ineligible to serve on the so-called “supercommittee”
You CANNOT MAKE IT UP
Those ‘too’ concerned with burgeoning interest on debt, and out of control, inefficient spending to increase the debt today will be ineligible to make reasoned
decision on spending later because they are too concerned about the debt to increase it on principle?
Weekly Std:
The debt ceiling deal will pass the Senate early this afternoon. No suspense there. But the vote will be worth watching for another reason: Three Republican Senate sources tell TWS that senators who vote against the deal will be ineligible to serve on the so-called “supercommittee” for deficit reduction that the legislation creates.While there’s certain logic to such a policy, it could be self-defeating. Excluding those who vote against the debt deal will ensure that some of the most fiscally conservative members of the Senate Republican caucus, including most of its freshmen, will be reading about the committee’s activities in the newspaper rather than guiding its decisions. Among those who have already declared their opposition to the deal: libertarian-leaning senators Mike Lee and Rand Paul; Jim DeMint, the aggressive fiscal hawk from South Carolina; conservative reformers Ron Johnson from Wisconsin and Pat Toomey from Pennsylvania; the ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee, Jeff Sessions; and Florida’s Marco Rubio, already one of the highest-profile conservatives in Congress.
More worrisome for conservatives, however, is that private whip counts in the Senate found that some 20 Republicans expressed support for the proposals that came out of the Gang of Six. And while many of the components of that plan have merit as individual policy proposals, the package involves compromises on taxes anathema to most conservatives.
- US debt crisis: political factions that will influence the deal (telegraph.co.uk)
- Litmus Test for GOP Senators (politicalwire.com)
- Senate conservatives say they don’t plan to delay consideration of debt-limit deal (thehill.com)
- Durbin doesn’t know just 51 votes needed to pass a budget in the Senate (hotair.com)
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