Senate Minority Leader Names His Price: NO NEW TAXES!
"I Oppose Raising The Debt Ceiling"
McConnell Names His Price: No New Taxes
Published June 27, 2011
| FoxNews.com
McConnell Makes His Stand
“Throwing more tax revenue into the mix is simply not going to produce a desirable result, and it won't pass. I mean, putting aside the fact that Republicans don't like to raise taxes, Democrats don't like to either.”
-- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on “This Week” promising to oppose any tax increases as part of a debt package.
President Obama’s road to an increase in the nation’s $14.3 trillion borrowing limit runs smack through Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and today McConnell will tell Obama what the toll is.
Democrats control the Senate, but will need a minimum of seven members of McConnell’s caucus in order to pass any increase. And that’s only if all 53 Democrats hang together, an open question given the grumblings from the right (Sens. Joe Manchin and Ben Nelson) and the left (Sens. Bernie Sanders and Dick Durbin) of their Senate caucus.
Before any deal can get to the Republican-controlled House, it must.....Continue Story Here:
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