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Sen. Chuck Schumer: We’re Going to Pass a Budget This Year

Jan. 20, 2013 4:50pm Erica Ritz

Senator Charles Chuck Schumer: Democrats Will Pass a Budget This Year

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. , right, accompanied by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y, gestures as he speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. (Photo: AP)

(TheBlaze/AP) — Senate Democrats intend to approve a budget for the first time in almost four years, a prominent lawmaker said Sunday, but warned that it will call for higher tax revenues that Republicans are sure to oppose.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., also said an announcement by House Republicans that they plan to approve a short-term increase in the nation’s borrowing limit without demanding spending cuts was “positive step.” He added, though, the extension should be longer than the three months they have outlined.

“We don’t want to play fiscal cliff every three months,” Schumer said.

Republicans in recent days have backed away from their insistence that they would not increase the nation’s borrowing limit – known as the debt ceiling – without deep spending concessions. If the new proposal holds, the shift would clear the way for Congress to avoid a potential government default this spring.

But GOP officials insist that they will not move unless Senate Democrats create a budget to prevent the cycle of crises from continuing.

“All of us losing our pay if we don’t pass a budget is the right thing to do,” said Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri, vice chair of the Senate Republican Conference.

Sen. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican and a favorite of the tea party, said he supports the strategy from his party’s leaders in the House.

“There is no doubt the Senate hadn’t done its job,” said Cruz, who was elected to his first term in November. “It’s been nearly four years since it’s passed a budget. And the Senate should pass a budget.”

This Nov. 13, 2012 file photo shows Sen.-elect Ted Cruz, R-Texas speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Photo: AP)

But Senate Republicans will get a budget from the Democrats this year, Schumer said.

“We Democrats have always intended to do a budget this year,” Schumer claimed, reiterating that the Democrats’ budget will raise taxes while offering overhauls to the tax code likely to find Republican support.

“We’re going to do a budget this year and it’s going to have revenues in it. And our Republican colleagues better get used to that fact,” the senator added on NBC’s “Face the Nation.”

The White House, too, said it remained committed to what officials called a “balanced” approach to cutting the nation’s $16.4 trillion nation debt. Asked by ABC’s George Stephanopolous whether Obama “will only sign a budget deal if it includes new revenues,” White House senior adviser David Plouffe agreed.

“Yes, it’s got to be balanced,” said Plouffe, who expects to leave his first-floor West Wing office soon. “We need spending cuts, entitlement reform and revenue. We have to have that.”

Watch Cruz and Schumer spar over the issue on “Face the Nation,” below:

House Republican leaders added a caveat on to the extension Friday designed to prod Senate Democrats into passing a budget: no pay for lawmakers if there again is no budget passed this year. House Republicans have passed budgets for two consecutive years; the Democratic-controlled Senate last passed a complete budget in 2009.

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South Philly Boy
Posted on January 20, 2013 at 11:15pm
Duh

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grickm
Posted on January 20, 2013 at 10:45pm
so (up)Chuck and his cronies are finally going to do the job they have illegally not done for 4 years? I’ll believe it when I see it.

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katzkiner
Posted on January 20, 2013 at 10:39pm
Just another professional thief.

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rickroland
Posted on January 20, 2013 at 10:28pm
Yeah, sure you are, Schmuckie. You are a major part of what is wrong with the Federal government — you are not, and haven’t been, part of the solution to any problem posed (real or imagined problem).

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Kathleen3
Posted on January 20, 2013 at 10:27pm
Other than setting the record for being the first in racing to an open mic or camera what, exactly, has Schumer ever accomplished? This man is more suited to serve as a talk show host on a Brooklyn cable station than to attempt to pass himself off as a statesman.

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EliteTech
Posted on January 20, 2013 at 10:00pm
Well, atleast we’ll know how our money is being wasted by these incompetant fools.

What does this ******* want, an atta boy for doing something they should have done the last three years.

You suck charlie, always have!

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Msgt Ret
Posted on January 20, 2013 at 9:58pm
4 years, and no budget…now his majesty cannot be re-elected the libs want a budget they can blame on the Republicans…hey shoeboy do you think were stupid? WAKE UP AMERICA!

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propel7
Posted on January 20, 2013 at 9:52pm
This moron has been thinking he is above everyone for too long. Got to his head.

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snapper451
Posted on January 20, 2013 at 9:24pm
Only if Harry Reid goes to jail, which may be Chuck you’s plan to take over.

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texanpatriot
Posted on January 20, 2013 at 9:13pm
First term: Bush did it.

Second term: The entire GOP did it.

What infuriates me is that a few hundred miscreant airheads in DC can play this game and laugh at the chaos while the country goes to hell in the Space Shuttle.

mis·cre·ant [mis-kree-uh nt] adjective
1. depraved, villainous, or base.
2. Archaic. holding a false or unorthodox religious belief; heretical.

Either fits…

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DZ-015
Posted on January 20, 2013 at 9:07pm
So the Schoom Gang is going to propose a budget in the Senate? Has anyone told Harry Weed about this?

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SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on January 20, 2013 at 8:54pm
Well of course the senate will pass a budget this year…don’t be ridiculous…..and unlike the past 4 years,this time they will say there will be a depression if its not passed….Boehner will make another appearance to make the republicans look foolish again,then at the last minute,the senate bill will come up for a vote in the house and just enough republicans will join the democrats to pass the budget which will include loads of tax increases…or as Shumer like to call them…..revenues .

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tketterer
Posted on January 20, 2013 at 8:54pm
Is there just any way that Schmucker can just fu@$ off!

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Glockfan19
Posted on January 20, 2013 at 8:47pm
Cue the “Fake TV Audience Laugh Track”!

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tom comella
Posted on January 20, 2013 at 8:46pm
OMG the Democrats are going to pass a budget for the first time in four years. These corrupt scofflaws are a joke. I’ll give you libs a suggestion for a new tax. Let’s have a net wealth tax on all people who make more than–Oh, let’s say–300,000 per year. Not a tax on their income, but a tax on their net wealth–that should finally grab the big mouthed liberals who are so much in favor of other people paying more in income taxes, while they get their income from stock options etc. What would let’s say 20% of Big mouthed Buffet’s net worth be? Or Schumer? Or Bloomberg? Or all of the hollywood phonies. They would squeal like the over weaning piglets that they are..

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- tketterer
  Posted on January 20, 2013 at 9:05pm
  I like it
  
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- phil1765
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:38am
  Nice idea Tom, bet that would sure stir up the old hornets nest.
  
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NigelTufnel
Posted on January 20, 2013 at 8:43pm
Bush got 4 trillion worth of debt ceiling raises in 8 years. Obama has already recieved that and more. The gop should offer the dems the Bush average of 500 billion a year and see how far Odumbo can stretch it.

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perry1980
Posted on January 20, 2013 at 8:16pm
That made me laugh out loud. The Dems will never pass a budget. Why should they when they can just keep on spending and keep on raising the debt ceiling

Wake up America

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truthhasno
Posted on January 20, 2013 at 8:08pm
Looks Like He’s Telling a Big Fish Story!

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dadsrootbeer
Posted on January 20, 2013 at 8:05pm
All to do about nothing. Their outrageous spending, massive growth of government and control over companies and industries has already doomed the economy if not country.

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Kathleen3
Posted on January 20, 2013 at 7:58pm
Name one, just one, significant achievement Schumer has achieved while collecting a handsome salary and benefits from the taxpayers. The man is a fraud.

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Wannabee
Posted on January 20, 2013 at 7:47pm
SCHUMER, a has-been of the worst kind. Only NEW YORK would stick with this useless Senator. Its seems like I voted for him a hundred years ago and he won’t go away.. Why is it that New Yorkers cannot stop electing people like him?? New York City and upstate NY is loaded with really nice and sensible people. Bloomberg and Cuomo must be putting something in the drinking water

Cruz brings us real hope not the intentional false hope of our esteemed, egotistical highly educated but do-nothing destructive and divisive Presidente..

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Sharon Rose
Posted on January 20, 2013 at 7:36pm
Liar, liar, pants on fire~~~

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MaxAR15
Posted on January 20, 2013 at 7:22pm
Why does Chuck the Schmuck always look constipated?

And why will this year be any different than the past four years w/ no budget? I’m not holding my breath since blue ain’t my colour.

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Autumknight
Posted on January 20, 2013 at 7:19pm
F you Chuck Schu

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TSUNAMI_22
Posted on January 20, 2013 at 7:12pm
Pardon me while I go pass a ‘Schumer’ [evil grin]

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