Few lawmakers were fully satisfied with the compromise that averted a shutdown of the federal government on April 8, but perhaps no one came out of it more frustrated than US Rep. Brad Miller, who represents North Carolina’s 13th Congressional District.
“I have proven repeatedly that I am willing to compromise, but the demands that almost resulted in a shutdown were an embarrassment to our republic,” Miller said in a prepared statement. “It is reprehensible that House Republicans held pay for our military, for instance, hostage to demands that had nothing to do with the budget, such as gutting environmental protection and making one healthcare provider, Planned Parenthood, ineligible for women’s healthcare programs.
“I remain proud of my vote in December against exploding the deficit by giving deep tax cuts to the richest Americans, and I am not willing to pay for those cuts in the budget battles ahead by firing teachers, kicking kids from tough circumstances out of Head Start, denying job training to workers who’ve lost their jobs, and putting college out of reach for middle-class kids by cutting Pell grants.”
Having averted what she termed “an irresponsible government shutdown,” US Sen. Kay Hagan said Democrats and Republicans “most work together to chart a new, bipartisan course that puts our fiscal house in order.
Hagan is among a bipartisan group of lawmakers proposing to put the federal budget on a two-year schedule instead of once every year for the purpose of reducing politics in the process.
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