 | "Super Congress" Proposed As Solution to Debt Ceiling ImpasseEowyn | July 24, 2011 at 3:24 pm | Tags: accountability, Constitution, Democrats, entitlements, Harry Reid, House, John Boehner, Michael Steel, Mitch McConnell, Republicans, revenue, Senate, spending cuts | Categories: 2012 Election, Constitution, Crazy Politicians, Economy, Idiot Law Makers, Liberals, Republican Party, Taxes, United States | URL: http://wp.me/pKuKY-8i6 |
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
Excerpts from Ryan Grim, "super congress," Huffington Post, 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 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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