Budget Fight Faces Hurdle Beyond Price Tag
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
NYT
WASHINGTON — The most visible element of the budget fight in Congress is the one over the scale of spending cuts this year. But increasingly, other deeply contentious policy issues that House Republicans insist must be addressed in any budget deal are as much of a stumbling block as the final dollar figure.
They include efforts to take away money to carry out the new health care law, to limit regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency and to cut federal financing for organizations like Planned Parenthood that provide abortions.
“A major reason I was sent to Washington was to defund Obamacare,” said Representative Joe Walsh, a freshman lawmaker from Illinois, using the Republicans’ derisive phrase for the health care overhaul. In Mr. Walsh’s view, and among many of his fellow freshmen, any spending plan must take money from at least some those programs. “If they are not part of this, I will be very upset,” he said.
Without some of these amendments, also known as riders, many Republicans say they will balk at a deal. Senate Democrats proclaim some of them, particularly one that takes away money from Planned Parenthood, which even some Republican senators have denounced, dead on arrival in their chamber.
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NYT
WASHINGTON — The most visible element of the budget fight in Congress is the one over the scale of spending cuts this year. But increasingly, other deeply contentious policy issues that House Republicans insist must be addressed in any budget deal are as much of a stumbling block as the final dollar figure.
They include efforts to take away money to carry out the new health care law, to limit regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency and to cut federal financing for organizations like Planned Parenthood that provide abortions.
“A major reason I was sent to Washington was to defund Obamacare,” said Representative Joe Walsh, a freshman lawmaker from Illinois, using the Republicans’ derisive phrase for the health care overhaul. In Mr. Walsh’s view, and among many of his fellow freshmen, any spending plan must take money from at least some those programs. “If they are not part of this, I will be very upset,” he said.
Without some of these amendments, also known as riders, many Republicans say they will balk at a deal. Senate Democrats proclaim some of them, particularly one that takes away money from Planned Parenthood, which even some Republican senators have denounced, dead on arrival in their chamber.
(More here.)
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