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Senate Passes Bipartisan Budget Deal – Here Are the 36 Republicans Who Voted Against It

Dec. 18, 2013 4:48pm Becket Adams

The U.S. Senate voted 64-36 Wednesday to pass the two-year Ryan-Murray budget agreement.
Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) explain their budget agreement (Getty Images).

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), chairman of the House Budget Committee, and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), chairwoman of the Senate Budget Committee, say their plan will reduce the nation’s deficit by $23 billion and scale back the March 1 automatic spending cuts known as sequester.
“This vote shows both parties — in both chambers — can find common ground. We can work together,” Ryan said shortly after the vote.
The deal, titled “The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013,” will replace sequester cuts with savings from future-year cuts, according to the deal’s authors. It also sets the budget cap for fiscal years 2014 and 2015 at $1.012 trillion and $1.014 trillion, respectively. Prior to the bill’s passage, the budget cap for fiscal years 2014 and 2015 was $967 billion and $995 billion, respectively.
The bill will require federal civilian and military employees to contribute more to their pensions, it will increase premiums on companies whose pension plans are insured by taxpayers and it will levy new airline fees on travelers.
These are the 36 senators who voted against the bill:

1. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.)
2. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.)
3. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.)
4. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)
5. John Boozman (R-Ark.)
6. Richard Burr (R-N.C.)
7. Dan Coats (R-In)
8. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.)
9. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.)
10. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.)
11. John Cornyn (R-Texas)
12. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho)
13. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
14. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.)
15. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.)
16. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.)
17. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)
18. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
19. Dean Heller (R-Nev,)
20. James Inhofe (R-Okla.)
21. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.)
22. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.)
23. Mike Lee (R-Utah)
24. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
25. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.)
26. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
27. James Risch (R-Idaho)
28. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.)
29. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)
30. Tim Scott (R-S.C.)
31. Pete Sessions (R-Ala.)
32. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.)
33. John Thune (R-S.D.)
34. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.)
35. David Vitter (R-La.)
36. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.)

Sens. Alexander, Blunt and Flake voted “yay” on cloture, moving the bill to a final vote, but voted “nay” on the bill’s final passage.
Here are the nine Republicans who voted in favor of the bill:

1. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.)
2. Susan Collins (R-Maine)
3. Orin Hatch (R-Utah)
4. John Hoeven (R-N.D.)
5. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.)
6. Ron Johnson (R-Wiss.)
7. John McCain (R-Ariz.)
8. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)
9. Rob Portman (R-Ohio)

Although it passed with little resistance (64 “yays” to 36 “nays” is a blowout in Senate terms), the budget deal, which takes the possibility of a government shutdown off the table for the next two years, sparked a minor war between GOP leaders and several conservative groups including Heritage Action and FreedomWorks.
“They’re pushing our members in places where they don’t want to be, and frankly I think they’ve lost all credibility,” House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said in reference to attacks on the bill. “It just comes to a point where some people step over the line. When you criticize something and you have no idea what you’re criticizing, it undermines your credibility.”
Paul Ryan responded to critics, including Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), by arguing that the bill, although not perfect, is a good step toward future deficit reduction.
“Read the deal and get back to me,” Ryan said in response to Rubio’s claim that the budget deal would “make it harder for Americans to achieve the American dream.”
“People are going to do what they need to do. Look, in the minority you don’t have the burden of governing,” he said, adding that Rubio’s move to condemn the bill “was a little strange.”

The fact that the deal does not include an extension of the long-term unemployment benefits that will expire on Dec. 28 has prompted loud criticism from several Democrat lawmakers and left-leaning pundits. In the days leading up to Wednesday’s vote, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who voiced her support for the deal early on, advised her colleagues to “embrace the suck.”
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed the bill last week; it now heads to President Barack Obama’s desk for final approval.
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December 22, 2013, 01:52 pm Ryan defends military benefits cuts

By Molly K. Hooper



Greg Nash

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Sunday defended cuts to military retiree benefits, noting Congress would change a provision for individuals who were “medically retired” or received “survivor’s benefits.”


In a USA Today op-ed published on Sunday, the Republican budget guru, who spent weeks crafting a two-year bipartisan budget deal with Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-Wash.), noted the budget chiefs “have agreed to amend the law … well before the reform takes effect in December 2015.”“Many raised concerns that these reforms would affect the retired pay of service members who are medically retired and those receiving survivor’s benefits. So Senator Murray and I have agreed to amend the law to exclude them well before the reform takes effect in December 2015,” the House Budget Committee chairman wrote.


He explained the rationale behind the joint decision to scale back benefits for military retirees under the age of 62, or “reduction in cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) for working-age military retirees,” that has become a source of “controversy,” in recent days.


“If [younger retirees] retire before age 62, the annual increase in their retired pay will be 1% less than the inflation rate. In other words, their benefits will grow every year — just at a slower rate,” Ryan wrote.


The cut is anticipated to save $6 billion over a 10-year period.


Ryan noted military compensation has been simmering for some time. An outside panel is set to release findings in May to the Armed Services panels on how to tackle the more than $400 billion annual cost.





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