House delays budget vote GOP left without necessary votes after moderates

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House delays budget vote
GOP left without necessary votes after moderates balk at cuts
From Deirdre Walsh
CNN Washington Bureau

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/10/house.budget/index.html

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- House Republican leaders abruptly called off a vote Thursday on a bill that would trim $50 billion in spending after moderate Republicans resisted cuts to a range of social programs, including Medicaid, student loans and food stamps.

Late Wednesday night, House leaders -- bowing to objections from two dozen moderate Republicans -- dropped a provision in the bill that would have allowed oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said Democrats made the bill "too hot to handle" for Republicans, and she called the cuts "anti-family, anti-taxpayer and anti-American."

"By having to pull it today, it is a failure on the part of the Republicans," she said.

He blamed Democrats for refusing to work across party lines, charging that "if it weren't for the political scheming of the Democratic leadership, there would be Democrats who would be excited for voting for this bill."

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1. Its a horrible bill. Its against everything the Dems stand for

Moderate Repugs and Dems are right to "resist" massive cuts to already dangerously underfunded social programs. Should that travesty of legislation pass the impact would be devastating to this country. And, they want to allow more tax cuts on top of it. :argh: