Reality Check::::> Republican/Tea Partier "budget cutters" want to keep oil subsidies

[garybeck]

WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders said Thursday that they would accede to demands from conservatives and dig deeper into the federal budget for billions of dollars in additional savings this year, exhibiting the power of the Tea Party movement and increasing chances of a major fiscal clash with Democrats.

In response to complaints from rank-and-file Republicans that the party was not fulfilling a campaign promise to roll back domestic spending this year by $100 billion, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee said his panel would abandon its initial plan and draw up a new one to slice spending more aggressively.

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Senate Democrats, who will have to negotiate with their Republican counterparts in the House, quickly criticized the plan, accusing Republicans of slashing too deeply into programs like community law enforcement while refusing to end subsidies to powerful allies like the oil industry.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/us/politics/11congress.html?_r=2&hp

[OHdem10]

1. And their constituents never know these things.

[garybeck]

2. not unless you or I tell them about it . n/t