“I think it’s wrong and unconstitutional to hand over the entire budget to 12 people,” she said of the 12-member bipartisan panel.
Continue ReadingSpeaking of her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa, Bachmann said she “lived very carefully.”
“We wouldn’t consider spending more money than what we took in. That’s the kind of thinking that has to return to Washington DC,” she said. “That’s why the super committee is such a bad idea.” -Michelle Bachmann
Michelle Bachmann is curently a member of the following comittees:
1. Comittee on Financial Services
2. Subcomitee on International Monetary Policy and Trade
3. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
4. Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Just like any other committee, the Debt Reduction Super-Committee will take their proposals to The House of Representatives to be passed. If the budget reduction proposal passes the House it then must pass the Senate to even be signed or vetoed by the President. It sounds like she is just jealous that she isn't on the Super-Committee. If she were on the committee she wouldn't be making up cr*p and fussing about it, would she? It is a fallacy to say the budget would be handed over to just 12 people. There are a total of 535 members of Congress who would all have the opportunity to vote on the budget proposal. She must like to criticize her President because she thinks she can do better. She must think the average American is an idiot. Most of us know basic civics and that Congressional committees are a legislative sub-organization in the United States Congress that handle a specific duty. Committee membership enables members to develop specialized knowledge of the matters under their jurisdiction. There are approximately 200 committees and sub-committees in Congress and the first Senate committee was established April 7, 1789. If committees were unconstitutional I would think someone (other than Michelle Bachmann) would have noticed that in the last 222 years. As a matter of fact on July 24, 1787, the Federal Convention appointed a five-man Committee of Detail, chaired by John Rutledge of South Carolina, to prepare a draft constitution for the United States. Then during the Constitutional Convention, the Committee of Style was appointed "to revise the style of, and arrange, the articles which have been agreed to by the House." On September 12, 1787. Wow, our constitution was actually in part drafted by a committee. It seems that in Michelle Bachmann's world the actual Constitution of the U.S. (the supreme law of the United States of America) is unconstitutional. The Debt Reduction Super-Committee is constitutional and it is silly for Rep. Bachmann to oppose debt reduction.
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