TPM: Last month Nearly Half Of House GOP, Including NRCC Vice Chairs, Voted For Chained CPI

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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/04/flashback-nearly-half-of-house-gop-including-nrcc-vice-chairs-voted-for-chained-cpi.php

NRCC Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) has been taking fire from Democrats and many conservatives for cynically condemning President Obama’s budget as a “shocking attack on seniors,” after Obama yielded to GOP demands and included a Social Security cut in his budget.

His ploy put him at odds with many GOP leaders, who narrowly praised Obama’s decision to include so-called “Chained CPI” in his budget. But it also indirectly implicates nearly half of the House GOP conference, and his own deputies at the NRCC.

Late last month, 104 Republicans, including four NRCC vice chairmen — Reps. Cory Gardner (R-CO), Tom Graves (R-GA), Patrick McHenry (R-PA), and Tom Price (R-GA) — voted to replace the House GOP budget with the more conservative Republican Study Committee budget. That budget, according to an official description, “changes the formula for Social Security cost of living adjustments (COLA) by adopting a more accurate measure of inflation (chained-CPI).

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