House G.O.P. Members Face Voter Anger Over Budget
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER and CARL HULSE
NYT
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — In central Florida, a Congressional town meeting erupted into near chaos on Tuesday as attendees accused a Republican lawmaker of trying to dismantle Medicare while providing tax cuts to corporations and affluent Americans.
At roughly the same time in Wisconsin, Representative Paul D. Ryan, the architect of the Republican budget proposal, faced a packed town meeting, occasional boos and a skeptical audience as he tried to lay out his party’s rationale for overhauling the health insurance program for retirees.
In Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday evening, at a meeting with constituents, Representative Allen B. West was met with jeers about his 2010 campaign. “You’re not going to intimidate me,” Mr. West said, as hundreds of supporters stood and whooped it up for him.
After 10 days of trying to sell constituents on their plan to overhaul Medicare, House Republicans in multiple districts appear to be increasingly on the defensive, facing worried and angry questions from voters and a barrage of new attacks from Democrats and their allies.
(More here.)
NYT
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — In central Florida, a Congressional town meeting erupted into near chaos on Tuesday as attendees accused a Republican lawmaker of trying to dismantle Medicare while providing tax cuts to corporations and affluent Americans.
At roughly the same time in Wisconsin, Representative Paul D. Ryan, the architect of the Republican budget proposal, faced a packed town meeting, occasional boos and a skeptical audience as he tried to lay out his party’s rationale for overhauling the health insurance program for retirees.
In Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday evening, at a meeting with constituents, Representative Allen B. West was met with jeers about his 2010 campaign. “You’re not going to intimidate me,” Mr. West said, as hundreds of supporters stood and whooped it up for him.
After 10 days of trying to sell constituents on their plan to overhaul Medicare, House Republicans in multiple districts appear to be increasingly on the defensive, facing worried and angry questions from voters and a barrage of new attacks from Democrats and their allies.
(More here.)
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