Once again Republicans are divided due to Tea Party extremists. Senator Corker rather spend federal monies on war than on desperately needed domestic programs, including infrastructure.
After the traumatic events in Baltimore the streets are quiet, but, a solitary memorial remains.
April 28, 2015
A Republican U.S. senator (click here) said he is holding up his party’s budget proposal in Congress because a provision intended to cut spending isn’t strong enough.
Corker told reporters he wants the budget to “rid itself of a lot of the gimmicks that have been used in the past to actually spend a lot more money than people think we are spending.”...
A thirty year journalist to Baltimore knows the problems that lead to the horrific death of Freddie Gray.
Superstorm Sandy received a $602 billion after the state of emergency, there needs to be a post emergency relief for the Freddie Gray neighborhood.
April 28, 2015
By Michael A Fletcher
It was only a matter of time before Baltimore exploded.
In the more than three decades I have called this city home, Baltimore has been a combustible mix of poverty, crime, and hopelessness, uncomfortably juxtaposed against rich history, friendly people, venerable institutions and pockets of old-money affluence.
The two Baltimores have mostly gone unreconciled. The violence that followed Freddie Gray’s funeral Monday, with roaming gangs looting stores and igniting fires, demands that something be done....
...The non-binding budget proposal is intended to reach balance in nine years. It sets out the Republican Party’s priorities by calling for more than $5 trillion in spending cuts and no net tax increases. It raises defense spending in 2016 by boosting a war funds account far above President Barack Obama’s request.
The proposal also would allow Republicans to bypass Democrats and send Obama legislation to revise, though not repeal, his landmark health-care law. The administration has said the 2010 Affordable Care Act has extended coverage to 16.4 million previously uninsured Americans.
Both chambers adopted their own versions of a budget plan last month and conferees have been working out the differences....
The Republicans hate the US Constitution. There is a mechanism in the constitution which provides for votes, including all the Congress men and women. This is a hideous Congress and the Speaker resigned his authority years ago.
...House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers has been fighting to remove that provision from the final budget. The Kentucky Republican said in an interview that it would make his job of passing annual spending bills too difficult....
Speaker Bohner has no backbone. He needs to dissolve the Hastert Rule and pass the budget. To allow Corker a divisive vote is nothing more than a chronic political campaign. Corker can't be this stupid, can he? Maybe he needs a lie detector test to find out for sure.
...Corker can hold up the budget agreement because all 12 Senate Republican conferees’ votes are needed to approve it in the case of opposition by all 10 Democrats and independents....
Corker is using his position in the US House for a chronic political campaign. He has ethics violations. It is time for the Speaker to lead.
