PenceBlog: <b>Late into night, House passes fiscal 2007 budget resolution<b> - U.S. Congressman Mike Pence : 6th District Of Indiana

Around 1 AM this morning, Congressman Pence joined 217 other House Republicans and voted in favor of the Congressional Budget for the 2007 fiscal year.

Jennifer Yachnin of Roll Call wrote this account of last night's proceedings.

Here is an excerpt:

"Although GOP leaders won an agreement on the budget resolution in April from the conservative Republican Study Committee — the group sought several procedural reforms, including new restrictions on earmarks and emergency spending — Chairman Mike Pence (R-Ind.) has said committee members would not support any resolution that exceeded the Bush administration’s $873 billion budget proposal."

Joel Havemann of the L.A. Times wrote this article yesterday afternoon previewing the budget vote.

An excerpt follows:

"In a nod to conservatives, the budget included a provision limiting to about $4.3 billion the amount of money the House could routinely approve in an 'emergency' spending bill.

"A larger bill would have to go through the Budget Committee on the way to the House floor, and the committee could amend or delay the spending bill. This provision is designed to bring a halt to what is going on now.

"The House has passed an 'emergency' spending bill that would appropriate $91 billion for the current fiscal year, mostly for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and for Gulf Coast hurricane relief.

"Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana, chairman of the Republican Study Committee, which comprises about 100 House conservatives, praised the concept of a 'rainy day fund.'

"'Republicans will say to millions of Americans troubled by a sea of red ink, "We hear you, and this Republican Congress is ready to make the hard choices to put our fiscal house in order," Pence said.'"

posted by Pence Press Office # 7:22 AM