Rand Paul Tells GOP to Say 'No' to Omnibus

[Coolidge/Dawes '24]

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Senator Rand Paul is coming out guns-a-blazing against efforts by the Washington political establishment to rush through Congress a giant spending bill, called an "omnibus." In an exclusive interview, he tells Breitbart News that he plans to rally his colleagues against such a bill.

Instead, Paul thinks Republicans, who will control the Senate come January, should use their power to retake control from the Democrats by passing individual appropriations bills.

"I'm against any kind of Continuing Resolution or omnibus," Paul says.

That stand puts Paul at odds with his fellow Kentuckian, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rep. Hal Rogers (R), who is pushing for an omnibus. But Paul points out that Republicans just won the midterm elections, and he adds that by passing individual appropriations bills, Republicans can tell President Barack Obama how to spend Americans' money.

Paul also joins incoming Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions in arguing that Republicans should use all their power — including the power of the purse through appropriations and spending restraints — to block President Obama's planned executive amnesty.

"I think we should do everything we can to stop him from acting illegally," Paul said.

By joining Sessions and others to publicly challenge the omnibus spending efforts from Rogers, Speaker John Boehner, and other GOP leadership officials, Paul seems to hope to derail a grand bargain's chances before the Congress convenes its lame duck session.

With Paul, Sessions, presumably Sens. Ted Cruz, and Mike Lee, and others lining up against leadership's efforts before Congress even gets organized for the lame duck session, the next few weeks could be a bumpy ride.

 

[torchbearer]

gunz a blazing, like a patriot coming over a hill.

 

[fr33]

The word omnibus seems to have negative connotations when it comes to govt spending. Are they (the supporters of it) really calling it that?

 

[Brian4Liberty]

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

High five to Rand here! One of the main problems with Congress is how they ram through these gargantuan mega bills, that are Frankenstein monsters sewn together from the needs of a thousand special interest groups. So if you want to vote for something good, you have to accept a thousand bad things along with it.

By passing lots of little bills instead of one big bill, Republicans can use their majority to press their advantage, and cut away these cancerous tumors. Something which might not be possible if they needed bipartisan support.

Perhaps they can even go so far as to change the rules and procedures to make this the norm, rather than the exception.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Who is Hal Rogers, and why would anyone take him seriously?

This proposal is insane. Give Obama everything he wants and then attempt to take things back from him later?

Among the options under consideration are passing an omnibus to cover the rest of the fiscal year, and then pursuing a process in which congressional Republicans would attempt to pass spending "recision" bills that took away the money Obama needs to finance any executive order on immigration that he goes forward with and package them with other must-pass legislation. That idea was floated by House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Ky., during Tuesday's meeting. However, Obama would be free to veto them.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/h...-bill-to-keep-government-open/article/2556306

 

[Brian4Liberty]