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octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 03:56 PM Apr 2013

Reid Tests GOP Outrage Over Airport Delays With Plan To Pay Down Sequestration For Five Months

Amid GOP complaints about airport delays caused by sequestration, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said he intends to promptly introduce legislation to use war savings to pay down automatic, across the board spending cuts for five months.

“I think we should do something about sequestration. It’s important we do,” he told reporters at his weekly Capitol briefing. “We should do what was in one of the Ryan budgets, and that is use the overseas contingency fund to delay the implementation of sequestration. We could do it for five months. During this five month period, we could come up with something longer-term.”

The Overseas Contingency Operation (OCO) fund still contains approximately half a trillion unspent dollars, thanks to troop drawdowns from Iraq and Afghanistan in recent years. House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) has called for using those funds in his prior budget proposals to help reach his deficit reduction targets.

“There’s about $650 billion there,” Reid said. “Let’s use a small part of that to delay sequestration for five months. We’re going to move to that later this afternoon.”


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Reid Tests GOP Outrage Over Airport Delays With Plan To Pay Down Sequestration For Five Months (Original Post) octoberlib Apr 2013 OP
smoke and mirrors GeorgeGist Apr 2013 #1
Or, Harry Reid caves in to the GOP again and proposes going along Leslie Valley Apr 2013 #2
thanks octoberlib So much hate for Harry Reid.. Cha Apr 2013 #3
He's calling them on their bs. Is they're so worried about air-traffic octoberlib Apr 2013 #5
It's funny justhanginon Apr 2013 #4
Couldn't agree more. nt octoberlib Apr 2013 #6

GeorgeGist

(25,294 posts)
1. smoke and mirrors
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 04:00 PM
Apr 2013
The Overseas Contingency Operation (OCO) fund still contains approximately half a trillion unspent dollars, ...
 

Leslie Valley

(310 posts)
2. Or, Harry Reid caves in to the GOP again and proposes going along
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 04:03 PM
Apr 2013

with what Paul Ryan has already proposed.

How are they going to make the sequester hurt and make political points if they keep smoothing things over?

Recall the caterwauling when military education benifits were going to be cut?

They found the money somewhere.

Cha

(295,929 posts)
3. thanks octoberlib So much hate for Harry Reid..
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 04:25 PM
Apr 2013

when something good is going on it can't be seen through all the hate fumes.

“There’s about $650 billion there,” Reid said. “Let’s use a small part of that to delay sequestration for five months. We’re going to move to that later this afternoon.”

The move leaves Republicans with a tough choice. Outside the context of the Ryan budget, they have routinely opposed using OCO funds for anything other than deficit reduction. But amid complaints from middle-class constituents inconvenienced by air-traffic delays, they’ll have a hard time blocking bills that promise temporarily and painless relief.

octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
5. He's calling them on their bs. Is they're so worried about air-traffic
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 06:11 PM
Apr 2013

delays then they should agree to it.

justhanginon

(3,287 posts)
4. It's funny
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 05:38 PM
Apr 2013

how the sob's in congress get so upset about the sequestration for delaying air travelers but didn't blink an eye or even notice that most of the cuts affect the poor and most vulnerable among us. Cut housing, cut healthcare etc. and no one gives a s..t but, boy, you delay a congressman from flying home from his part time job and there is hell to pay. I am so sick and disgusted with this whole goddamned congress I could cry. I hope at some point in their selfish self centered lives they get to live in the hell they are creating for the average american citizen.
There, I feel much better!

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