House Republicans Slam ‘Self-Dealing’ Senate Republican Payday In Funding Bill
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"What they did is wrong," one House Republican said of the provision, adding it would never pass on its own.
WASHINGTON – Conservative House Republicans slammed a multi-million dollar giveaway to eight GOP senators tucked into legislation ending the government shutdown on Tuesday night, but said they had no choice but to move the bill forward.
During a meeting of the House Rules Committee to set up a vote Wednesday that could end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, Democrats and Republican members of the panel repeatedly bashed the senator payday provision.
Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.) read parts of the provision from the dais in seeming disbelief that senators would write a bill that so directly rewards themselves.
“I personally agree this should be removed,” Scott said. “The problem is, if we remove it, it has to go back to the Senate.”
“I’ve struggled with what to do. What they did is wrong,” Scott added, noting that it was dropped into the bill at the last minute without any consideration by committees in either chamber of Congress.
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