I voted no on the motion to concur in the Senate Amendments to #HR3547 with the House Amendment consisting of the text of the omnibus appropriations bill. This is the 1,582-page, $1.1 trillion government-wide spending bill that representatives had less than two days to read, with several of them admitting the obvious—that nobody read the entire bill before voting. This bill represents nothing but broken promises. It implements the spending levels laid out in the Ryan-Murray budget deal, which I opposed, that unwound the bipartisan agreement from 2011 that capped spending at lower levels. Less than three years ago, Congress promised the American people that it would spend $45 billion less in FY 2014 than this bill does. Only in Congress would splitting the difference between two bad proposals, one from Republicans and one from Democrats—with Republicans and Democrats each asking for *more* spending in different areas, with no substantive reforms—be considered a compromise worth congratulating. The bill provides nearly $6 billion *more* than the Presidents request for war funding, even though were winding down our engagements overseas. It uses gimmicks to find budgetary savings so spending can be increased elsewhere, even though the savings will never materialize. And its riddled with earmarks for members home districts, which many of them have bragged about. Heres my vote explanation for the Ryan-Murray budget deal that laid the groundwork for this massive spending bill: facebook/repjustinamash/posts/645143722191704. The bill passed 359-67.
Posted on: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 05:31:58 +0000
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