New York Democrat Charles Schumer says lawmakers have to end the sequestration blame game, and start working toward a grand bargain. (Feb. 28)
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New York Democrat Charles Schumer says lawmakers have to end the sequestration blame game, and start working toward a grand bargain. (Feb. 28)
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President Barack Obama stops to greet people in the crowd as he arrives at his campaign stop at the Alliant Energy Amphitheater in Dubuque, Iowa, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012. President Obama is on a three day campaign bus tour through Iowa. (AP Photo/Telegraph Herald, Jeremy Portje)
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President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks to reporters in the White House briefing room in Washington, Friday, March 1, 2013, following a meeting with congressional leaders regarding the automatic spending cuts. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 1, 2103, after a meeting at the White House between President Barack Obama and Congressional leaders before billions of dollars in mandatory budget cuts were to start. The meeting — lasting less than an hour — yielded no immediate results. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi says Republicans are the ones to blame for pink slips scores of people will receive with automatic government spending cuts looming. She says women in particular will feel the sequestration impacts. (Feb. 28)
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President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks about automatic defense budget cuts during a visit to Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, in Newport News, Va. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Following a closed-door party caucus, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, accompanied by fellow GOP leaders, meet with reporters, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, to challenge President Obama and the Senate to avoid the automatic spending cuts set to take effect in four days. Speaking at the Republican National Committee headquarters, Boehner complained that the House, with Republicans in the majority, has twice passed bills that would replace the across-the-board cuts known as the "sequester" with more targeted reductions, while the Senate, controlled by the Democrats, has not acted. From left are, Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Kansas, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., Boehner, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
GOP kills Senate Democratic plan to replace cuts
WASHINGTON (
AP) —
Senate Republicans have killed a plan backed by President
Barack Obama to replace $111 billion in government spending cuts this year with a new minimum tax on the wealthy and cuts to defense and farm subsidies that would be slower to strike.
The plan received a 51-49 majority vote but failed in the Senate because 60 votes are required to overcome a GOP-led filibuster.
Republicans object to $55 billion worth of new taxes and urge an alternative that would give Obama greater flexibility to deal with the automatic cuts.
The vote comes just a day before the automatic cuts are set to start to take place, yet there was never any hope that the Democratic measure would have passed because it was crafted without GOP input.
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