Senate Votes to Violate the Debt Limit Agreement

April 27, 2012 at 8:29 pm in News by Tea Party Patriots 8 Comments

Powerline had a great blog post about the Senate’s vote to violate the debt agreement that was put in place 9 months ago during the debt ceiling debate.

Last summer, Republicans in Congress agreed to increase the federal debt limit in exchange for the Democrats’ pledge to cap future spending at agreed-upon levels. The compromise was embodied in the Budget Control Act; discretionary spending was to increase by no more than $7 billion in the current fiscal year. I wrote yesterday about the fact that the Democrats intended to violate the Budget Control Act by increasing deficit spending on the Post Office by $34 billion. The measure probably would have glided through the Senate without notice had Jeff Sessions not challenged it. Sessions insisted on a point of order, based on the fact that the spending bill violated the Budget Control Act. It required 60 votes to waive Sessions’ point of order and toss the BCA on the trash heap.

Today the Senate voted 62-37 to do exactly that. This means that the consideration that Republicans obtained in exchange for increasing the debt limit is gone.

Read the full article on Powerline.

You can view how each Senator voted here. And check out the video below from Tea Party Patriots Jenny Beth Martin.

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