Rand Paul: Use Appropriations Bills to Rein
In Obama
(CNS News) - Republicans will have the “upper hand come
January,” controlling both the House and the Senate: “And what I’ve been
proposing is that we take the appropriations process, not a continuing
resolution or an omnibus bill, but take each of the 12 different bills and that
we should describe how the money should be spent throughout government,” Sen.
Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told Fox News’s Sean Hannity Monday night.
Passing individual appropriations bills hasn’t happened for
years, the senator noted:
“For nearly a decade, we’ve been passing these continuing
resolutions that are 2,000 pages long. No one gets a chance to read them, and
no one amends them. There are no new rules on how the money is spent. So we can
get rid of waste, we can rein in “Obama care,” we can rein in executive orders
on immigration through the…appropriations process.”
If Obama grants green cards and work permits to millions
more illegal aliens, he will be doing something that Congress instructed him
not to do, Paul said. “So I think the Supreme Court would strike it down. That
takes a while, but that may be the only recourse, short of a new president.”
On another topic — the administration’s “deception” in passing
the Affordable Care Act — Paul said he will press for an investigation in the
next Congress:
“There was the public deception by the president and all of
his henchmen and women, but also the deception of paid consultants. The one
thing we can do is that this Mr. Gruber, this Jonathan Gruber — he was paid,
and now he’s admitted that he was deceptive and deceitful.
“I’m going to ask for an investigation from the inspector
general, and I’m going to ask that…he return his pay, because how can you — how
can we pay someone to be a consultant to government who’s frankly admitting
they were dishonest? So I think he should be made to return his pay.
“The other thing we ought to investigate is there’s about 10
different states where he got between $200,000 and $400,000 for specific
reports. Who was sort of organizing this for him? Is this some sort of thing
that happened within government? Was he just able to market himself everywhere?
Or was this all coming as sort of an organized way to enrich Obama consultants?”
Source:http://www.teaparty.org/rand-paul-use-appropriations-bills-rein-obama-68034/
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/rand-paul-use-appropriations-bills-rein-obama
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