Thread: DREAM vote in the Senate to be THROWN!!!

Originally Posted by SicNTiredInSoCal

Stinky Reid will probably try and stretch this out until midnight Christmas eve.

He can pull this till Jan 4...that is when the old congress ends...the new starts on the 5th...



This is a critical time..


Kathyet

Originally Posted by kathyet

Originally Posted by SicNTiredInSoCal

Stinky Reid will probably try and stretch this out until midnight Christmas eve.

He can pull this till Jan 4...that is when the old congress ends...the new starts on the 5th...



This is a critical time..


Kathyet

We have to keep hammering them and keep the pressure on. no time to let up, no breather.....pressure on!

House Dems reject tax-cut deal
By Mike Lillis - 12/09/10 11:45 AM ET

The House Democratic Caucus on Thursday rejected the tax deal negotiated between the White House and Senate Republicans.

The non-binding vote held during a closed meeting of the caucus puts tremendous pressure on House leaders to fight for changes to the proposal, and raises questions about whether the administration's deal will move to the House floor.

"I don't think there's any doubt that [Speaker Nancy Pelosi] will follow the caucus," Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) told reporters.

The White House has insisted the deal worked out with Republicans cannot be changed. Vice President Joe Biden visited Capitol Hill on Wednesday to deliver the message to House Democrats that the White House viewed the deal as a "take it or leave it" accord.

Sponsored by Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), the resolution says simply that Democrats oppose floor action of the tax deal in its current form.

"We have tremendous concerns about what was given away by the White House," DeFazio told reporters in the Capitol basement after the vote.

DeFazio said the voice vote was "virtually unanimous," with only one or two members expressing dissent.

"We have given our leadership license to force the Senate and the White House back to the table to get a better deal for the American people," he said.

Asked if leadership had agreed to do that, DeFazio replied, "Well, they're not going to get a bill if they don't."

President Obama on Monday stirred a firestorm when he announced a deal — carved out between administration officials and Senate Republicans — to extend the Bush-era tax cuts for all income levels. House Democrats passed an alternative bill last Thursday extending those cuts only to individuals earning below $200,000 and families earning below $250,000. Both sets of tax cuts expire at the end of the year. The deal also includes a 13-month extension of unemployment benefits.

The White House has been aggressively pushing the deal all week, arguing Democrats risk plunging the country into a double-dip recession by rejecting it. At a testy news conference this week, Obama defended his negotiating stance, saying Republicans were not going to budge on their insistence that all of the tax cuts be extended. The president compared the GOP to hostage takers and said he had to act in order to help middle-class taxpayers and the unemployed.

DeFazio had intended to bring up his resolution next Tuesday, but news reports indicating the Senate is leaning toward accepting the deal caused him to expedite the timeline, DeFazio said.

Fifty-five Democrats signed a petition forcing a vote on the resolution.

"[Obama] basically said, 'Take it or leave it,' " DeFazio said. "We left it. It's up to them."
This story was updated at 12:03 p.m.



http://thehill.com/homenews/house/13288 ... -cut-deal-



Kathyet