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No shutdown, deal reached

hypocritexposer

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By Karoun Demirjian (contact)

Published Friday, April 8, 2011 | 7:53 p.m.

Updated 9 minutes ago

Congressional sources confirm that Republicans and Democrats have reached a deal to keep the government funded.

The deal came about 90 minutes before a midnight deadline that would have triggered a government shutdown. The worst fears of a shutdown are over, with congressional sources confirming that House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., have agreed to keep the government running for a few days under a continuing budget resolution.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/apr/08/deal-reached-avoid-federal-government-shutdown/


And this TSR is why the Republicans will regain the Senate majority in 2012.


Let me know if you don't know why I'm saying that.
 

Steve

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Sources told the Associated Press of the deal, which outlines $38 billion in budget cuts for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30. The outline also abandons a Republican demand that would have ended Planned Parenthood's federal funding.

GOP leaders dropped that provision in exchange for deeper budget cuts, congressional sources said.

We will cut $78.5 billion below the President’s 2011 budget proposal, and we have reached an agreement on the policy riders.

Details about the deal remained sketchy.

on TV Reid whined about 78.5 billion in cuts, (38 billion in "real cuts")
and the one week CR contained 2 billion in cuts..

while it is unclear it appears that the Planned parenthood funding will go for an up/down vote, and that Obamacare may as well..
 

hypocritexposer

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I read somewhere yesterday that the whole thing is a "debate on what color to paint the patio furniture that is to be re-arranged on the Titanic"


We'll see how serious people are about getting the US financial house in order when Paul Ryan's budget proposal for 2012 comes up for debate.
 
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