Republicans Blast ‘Misguided’ Omnibus Spending Bill

Carolyn Hileman* | January 5, 2008

Filed Under Unconstitutional Acts, Unconstitutional Spending

By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
December 18, 2007

(CNSNews.com) - What can you say about a 3,500-page appropriations bill that stands more than a foot tall? Nothing good, according to Republicans. But Democrats are spinning the spending bill as a step in their much-talked-about “New Direction.”

House Republican Whip Roy Blunt of Missouri said the bill is full of “misguided” policy decisions: “On one page, for instance, you will find a set of new restrictions on the construction of our security fence along the border; on another, $10 million in ‘emergency’ funding for attorneys of illegal immigrants.

“Along with those, you’ll even find language gutting a Senate-passed provision encouraging English in the workplace. And as we continue to cull through the text, that may prove to be just the tip of the iceberg,” Blunt complained.

Most lawmakers haven’t had time to read the massive spending bill, which House Democrats crafted in secret and released late Sunday. The $515 billion appropriations bill will fund government operations for the fiscal year that began in October.

Instead of passing 13 individual spending bills as it is supposed to do, Congress ended up passing only one. It combined the other 12 into one big “omnibus” bundle. The Senate will take up that omnibus bill on Tuesday.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hailed passage of the catch-all measure as a positive thing, saying it would end “seven years of failed Bush Administration economic policies that are out of touch with the concerns of the American people.”

Pelosi said the Democrats’ budget “begins to set us in a New Direction by investing in health care and medical research, education from K-12 to college students, law enforcement and Homeland Security, and renewable energy. These are the priorities of the American people,” Pelosi said.

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