Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Senate says No to veto Pen!!!


The Senate just defeated an amendment, 63 to 32, by Senator John McCain that would have maintained federal agency spending at last year’s levels and deprived lawmakers of nearly 9,000 in earmarks.

Mr. McCain, Republican of Arizona and a longtime foe of pet projects tucked into spending bills, has been bashing the bill under consideration — a $410 billion omnibus spending proposal — that would finance governmental spending through Sept. 30 of this year. The amendment that was just rejected would have jettisoned the omnibus bill and frozen spending levels.

The Senate will continue debating the omnibus bill throughout much of this week; Republicans are pointing to overlap between the $787 billion stimulus package of a few weeks ago and spending provisions for some agencies in this carryover bill.

Mccain called for President Obama to veto the omnibus spending bill once it’s passed, to take out his veto pen. “The last guy should’ve taken out his veto pen,” Mr. McCain said of former President Bush, without mentioning his name. “He should’ve. He didn’t and he lost the confidence of the American people because we’re not careful stewards of the taxpayers’ dollars.”

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