Mitch McConnell
June 1st 2012 -
It left ahead in the House of Representatives. They against approved it by 269 votes to favor and 161. The proposal must be ratified by the Senate. James Madison addresses the importance of the matter here. The House of Representatives approved east Tuesday the agreement bipartisan that will allow to elevate the debt ceiling before the date limit of the 2 of August and to avoid therefore the suspension of payments of the USA. The proposal, that still must be ratified by the Senate, includes a plan of reduction of the deficit of the USA of at least 2.1 trillions of dollars in the next decade, exclusively through cuts in the public cost and was approved by 269 votes to favor against 161 votes against. In spite of the majority approval, since a simple majority was needed 216 votes to favor, the voting reflects the division within the democratic party, where there was a tie to 95 votes.
Some of the democratic legislators showed their opposition throughout the day the plan because it did not include ascent of taxes for the highest rents, since it had considered initially. By part republican, nevertheless, the plan was supported by the great majority of her representatives, in spite of the reluctance shown initially by the most preservative wing of the party, the Tea Party. A joint plan The bipartisan pact, announced last night by the American president, Barack Obama, was designed by the leader of the democratic majority in the Senate, Harry Reid, and the leader of the republican minority in this camera, Mitch McConnell. Reid informed that the Senate will put under voting Tuesday the plan of elevation of the top of the debt, at present into 14.29 trillions of dollars. The voting of the House of Representatives was considered the most complicated obstacle so that this measurement left ahead, reason why the way for its definitive approval is abre and it is sprightly, at the moment, the shade of the suspension of payments in the USA. Minutes before the voting, the White House issued an official notice in which it assured that president would ratify it to Obama if he appeared to him after happening through the Congress. Source of the news: The plan to avoid the suspension of payments in the USA surpasses its greater obstacle
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