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On Neil Cavuto’s Fox News show just a minute ago, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) just said that “we’ve never paid for disaster relief by cutting other spending.” I don’t doubt his sincerity, but he’s just flat-out wrong. For the first year or two of the Gingrich Congress, it was firm policy to “offset” disaster spending with other cuts. In fact, the rescissions package of 1995 began as an effort to provide such offsets — and then grew beyond that. If I remember the numbers, the disaster relief was pegged at just under $9 billion, and the final rescissions package was more than $16 billion. In short, we cut other spending by nearly twice as much as the amount we approved for disaster relief.
It was good policy then, and, with appropriate safeguards, it should still be the ordinary way of doing business.
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RJ| 1.15.13 @ 7:12PM
Again Blunt sounds like a Democrat and provides us with further reasons not to contribute to the National Republican Senatorial Committee. We are never going to get any degree of fiscal responsibility in Washington with elected officials acting this way. Without setting priorities on limited funds, the spending orgy in government will destroy the nation. It already has done substantial harm.
Ich Weis| 1.16.13 @ 1:29AM
Quin, what gets me is that they don't think the possible is possible. What is wrong with these guys? Obama's got all the press on the debt ceiling and where's Boehner on this? Nothing. My old rep - Kinziger has joined the "No labels" crowd, that's not a good sign. I'm an old Army Public Affairs officer, and one thing I was good at was information campaigns - Republicans just don't have one - what have you heard about them getting one?