You read that right.<\/p>\n
After the House voted down President Barack Obama\u2019s budget proposal 414 \u2013 0<\/a> in March, today the Senate defeated it 99 \u2013 0<\/a>.\u00a0 There are 51 Democrats in the Senate<\/a> (and two Independents that caucus with them).\u00a0 Not one voted for their president\u2019s budget.\u00a0 There are 190 Democrats in the House<\/a>.\u00a0 Not one voted for their president\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n There are only 535 members in Congress.\u00a0 As of today, 513 are on record opposing Barack Obama\u2019s 2012 budget.\u00a0 No one is on record supporting it.<\/p>\n By contrast, Paul Ryan\u2019s budget passed the House on March 29th<\/sup> with 228 Republican votes<\/a>, and only 10 party members against.\u00a0 Today, 41 of 47 Republicans voted for Ryan\u2019s budget<\/a>; short of the 51 needed for passage.<\/p>\n Only one party is trying to govern.\u00a0 The other is refusing to.\u00a0 The American people should take notice and vote accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You read that right. After the House voted down President Barack Obama\u2019s budget proposal 414 \u2013 0 in March, today the Senate defeated it 99 \u2013 0.\u00a0 There are 51 Democrats in the Senate (and two Independents that caucus with them).\u00a0 Not one voted for their president\u2019s budget.\u00a0 There are 190 Democrats in the House.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2033,143,70,84,185,802,178],"class_list":["post-14230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-barack-obama","tag-budget","tag-congress","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-paul-ryan","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14233,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14230\/revisions\/14233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}