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Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 27th, 2011 4:34 am by HL
GOP leaders trying to avoid a fight on 2012 spending
After months of partisan rancor over the record federal debt and spending cuts to reduce it, congressional Republicans are working to avoid the heated political warfare when Congress turns its attention to annual spending measures next month.
Even as a new bipartisan committee begins work on a difficult and potentially contentious strategy to reduce federal spending by more than a trillion dollars over the next decade, leaders of both parties have expressed optimism that there will be minimal acrimony as they work to complete a series of 12 spending bills to fund the work of federal agencies for the next fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1.
Boehner asks Obama to detail $1 billion regulations
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is pressing President Obama for information on costly government regulations, days after the White House announced a plan to eliminate more than 500 federal rules in an effort to save $10 billion over the next five years.
In a letter sent to Obama on Friday, Boehner reiterated a request he made this time last year for the administration to provide details on regulations with a projected cost of more than $1 billion, arguing that new projections by the White House point to 219 new planned regulations at a nearly 15 percent increase in cost over last year.
Hurricane Irene: How the federal government is preparing
Updated 3:28 p.m. ET
As Hurricane Irene approaches the East Coast, the Obama administration is preparing for what could be the largest storm to make landfall in the last three years.
“All indications point to this being a historic hurricane,” President Obama said Friday just hours before the storm is set to make landfall.
