One more time: THERE CANNOT BE AN "OBAMA" PLAN! The president has nothing to do with the actual writing of legislation. There wasn't a George Bush plan when the deficit was raised 7 times or a Ronald Reagan plan when the deficit was raised 17 times. THERE IS A DEMOCRATIC PLAN which has been proposed by Senator Reid.
If you want to call it an "Obama" plan, the only remedy available to the POTUS is invoking an executive order under the 14th amendment.
This is the last time I recommend that Ronnie P and the rest of the teabaggers turn off Fox Noise and get a DVD of Schoolhouse Rock : "How a Bill Becomes A Law" SHEESH!!!!!! Being a Foxophile really DOES destroy braincells, doesn't it!!!!!!!!
CBO Score: Senate Plan Cuts Deficits by $2.2 Trillion Over the Next Ten Years
July 27, 2011 10:32 AM
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ABC News' Sunlen Miller (@sunlenmiller) reports:
One day after the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office scored the Boehner plan finding it short on cuts, the CBO this morning released a more favorable score for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s debt ceiling plan. CBO, the nonpartisan budget accounting arm of Congress, estimates that Reid's legislation would reduce budget deficits by about $2.2 trillion over the next ten years. The score could perhaps breathe new momentum into to the Senate plan. Reid’s plan would raise the debt ceiling by $2. 7 trillion - past the next presidential election and into 2013. The competing proposal from Boehner is a two-step plan that would require another debt ceiling vote in about six months. But don't look for Republicans to flock to Reid's proposal. They have complained that nearly half the cuts in Reid's proposal - $1 trillion - comes from “winding down” of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Republicans have said this is a disingenuous way of counting money that would not have been spent anyway since the wars are already winding down. Discretionary spending cuts in Reid's proposal would result in $840 billion in lower authorized spending, the CBO report said this morning and $750 billion in actual lower outlays in the next ten years. Speaker of the House Boehner’s plan, scored yesterday by the CBO found $850 in savings – less than the Speaker had anticipated. Boehner has delayed a House vote originally scheduled for a vote today in order to find more savings, and rally more votes in the House for the plan. The Senate plan is not scheduled for a vote yet.