2 Year Budget Deal Passes
Senate Vote - Senators voted 64-35 to approve the Budget
Bill. All Democrats voted yes and were
joined by 15 RINOs. 35
Conservative Republican Senators Pushed Back Against Budget Deal. See how
Senator voted below:
This vote shows 35% of Senate Republicans are
“somewhat conservative”. If we can
increase the size of this group we might survive.
House Vote – House Reps voted 266-167 to approve the
Budget Bill. All 187 Democrats voted
yes and were joined by 79 RINOs. Voting no were 167 Republicans, that’s 39% of
the House.
The legislation
would raise the debt limit through March 2017, allowing the government to
continue to borrow money to pay its bills. The Treasury Department has warned
that the government will default on its debts unless the limit is raised by
Tuesday.
The deal also
lifts budget caps to boost spending for military and domestic programs by a
total of $80 billion over two years.
The legislation increases discretionary spending by $80
billion, split between domestic and defense programs over the
course of the next two years in addition to raising the debt ceiling until
March 2017.
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“Once again, a massive deal, crafted
behind closed doors, is being rushed through Congress under a threat of panic.
The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 serves as a reminder that the most important
and controversial legislation is still being drafted in secret, with little or
no input from the members of this chamber,” said Sen. Jeff Sessions R-AL
(Score 79%). “This
is how a country goes broke.”
The Congressional Budget Office
projects all spending increases will be offset by oil sales from the Strategic
Petroleum Reserve, a 2 percent cut to Medicare and changes to Social Security.
But the GOP lawmakers have vocalized they don’t think it goes far enough
to control spending.
This vote shows how many more actual
conservative Republicans we need to add to the House and the Senate in
2016.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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