As Conservatives Demand Budgetary Spending Cuts to Offset Cost of Sandy's Devestation...
by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty -vs- Tyranny Yep, certainly everyone should be able to agree on the need to offset the cost of Sandy's devastation to the federal budget. As well, everyone should be able to see the logic of the states effected shouldering a share of the burden of cost. THE HILL - House conservatives are wasting no time in demanding that emergency spending for Hurricane Sandy be offset by spending cuts to the rest of the budget. The White House on Friday requested Congress to pass a $60.4 billion bill to pay for damage resulting from Sandy. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and other GOP leaders have so far been mum on whether they will demand spending cuts to match. The right wing members of the House conference are not waiting to make their feelings known. Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), who sits on the Appropriations Committee, said she will need to see offsets on Wednesday as did Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho). “We have these emergencie...