Re: "Super Congress" Proposed As Solution to Debt Ceiling Impasse

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On Jul 24, 9:47 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Proposed As Solution to Debt Ceiling
> Impasse<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/super-congress-prop...>
> *Eowyn <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/>* | July 24,
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> The diabolically ingenious Congress-critters have come up with an
> ingeniously diabolical solution to the debt ceiling impasse -- go outside of
> the Founders' plan and the U.S. Constitution and create a new "Super
> Congress" comprised of 12 men/women from both parties and both chambers of
> Congress.
>
> With just a simple majority vote, this Super Congress of 12 will have
> extraordinary powers to push legislation through the House and Senate --
> powers that are* NOT* in the Constitution!!!
>
> Tell your representatives "No!!!!!"
>
> *~Eowyn*
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> Excerpts from Ryan Grim, "super congress," Huffington
> Post<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/23/super-congress-debt-ceiling_...>,
> July 23, 2011:
>
> Debt ceiling negotiators think they've hit on a solution to address the debt
> ceiling impasse and the public's unwillingness to let go of benefits such as
> Medicare and Social Security that have been earned over a lifetime of work:
> Create a new Congress.
>
> This "Super Congress," composed of members of both chambers and both
> parties, isn't mentioned anywhere in the Constitution, but would be granted
> extraordinary new powers. Under a plan put forth by Senate Minority
> Leader Mitch
> McConnell (R-Ky.) and his counterpart Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.),
> legislation to lift the debt ceiling would be accompanied by the creation of
> a 12-member panel made up of 12 lawmakers -- six from each chamber and six
> from each party.
>
> Legislation approved by the Super Congress -- which some on Capitol Hill are
> calling the "super committee" -- would then be fast-tracked through both
> chambers, where it couldn't be amended by simple, regular lawmakers, who'd
> have the ability only to cast an up or down vote. With the weight of both
> leaderships behind it, a product originated by the Super Congress would have
> a strong chance of moving through the little Congress and quickly becoming
> law. A Super Congress would be less accountable than the system that exists
> today, and would find it easier to strip the public of popular
> benefits.Negotiators are currently considering cutting the mortgage
> deduction and tax
> credits for retirement savings, for instance, extremely popular policies
> that would be difficult to slice up using the traditional legislative
> process.
>
> House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has made a Super Congress a central part
> of his last-minute proposal, multiple news
> reports<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/us/politics/24debt.html?_r=1&ref=ca...>and
> people familiar with his plan say. A picture of Boehner's proposal
> began
> to come into focus Saturday evening: The debt ceiling would be raised for a
> short-term period and coupled with an equal dollar figure of cuts, somewhere
> in the vicinity of a trillion dollars over ten years. A second increase in
> the debt ceiling would be tied to the creation of a Super Congress that
> would be required to find a minimum amount of spending cuts. Because the
> elevated panel would need at least one Democratic vote, its plan would
> presumably include at least some revenue [...]
>
> Democrats are open to a series of cuts as well as a Super Congress, but only
> if the debt ceiling is raised sufficiently so that it pushes past the
> election. [...]
>
> Boehner spokesman Michael Steel* [So that's where that RINO Steel went!!!
> -Eowyn]* argued that the inability to come to a larger deal so far left a
> short-term extension as an "inevitable" option. "For months, we have laid
> out our principles to pass a bill that fulfills the president's request to
> increase the debt limit beyond the next election. We have passed a debt
> limit increase with the reforms the American people demand, the 'Cut, Cap,
> and Balance' bill. The Democrats who run Washington have refused to offer a
> plan," he said in a statement. "Now, as a result, a two-step process is
> inevitable. Like the president and the entire bipartisan, bicameral
> congressional leadership, we continue to believe that defaulting on the full
> faith and credit of the United States is not an option." [...]
>
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