Congress Approves Obama’s $3.4 Trillion Spending Blueprint – washingtonpost.com
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What can I say? The socialist have taken over our government and there seems no way to stop them. There are a few Blue Dog Conservative Democrats who want assurances that cost will be reduced on Medicare and Medicaid to cover the new additions to the government health care entitlements who may hold out, and there are now 30 states who have passed legislation declaring the Constitutional Articles 9 and 10 shall be used against the federal government if more unfounded programs are passed with the burden for funding then placed on the states, so maybe there are some stops after all. But I personally wouldn’t expect it to be from Congress. I believe instead that it will have to come down to the states to revolt and demand a Constitutional convention in order to reign in the federal government. If this is done you can be sure the federal government will lose much of it’s power, but then the states will be at each others throats and Lord only knows what will be the result. This of course is the absolute worse thing that could happen to our country because our Constitution would indeed be changed and not for the better. Our founding fathers gave us a document that would live thru any changes in history if we would but follow it’s principles. BB
The budget resolution didn’t win a single vote from Republican lawmakers, who were enraged that the deficit is projected to exceed $1.2 trillion next year. House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) called it an “audacious move to a big socialist government” that piles “debt on the backs of our kids and our grandkids.”
the measure passed the House by a vote of 233 to 193 and the Senate 53 to 43. Only 17 Democrats in the House and three in the Senate voted against it,
Despite a persistent recession and soaring budget deficits, Democrats overwhelmingly endorsed the president’s request for hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending over the next decade for college loans, early childhood education programs, veterans’ benefits and investments in renewable energy aimed at reducing the nation’s dependence on foreign oil.
Lawmakers also agreed to use a powerful procedural tool known as reconciliation to advance the president’s proposal to expand health coverage for the uninsured — a move that ensures Republicans would not be able to filibuster the legislation. Unlike in 1993, when then-President Bill Clinton unveiled a universal coverage plan that went nowhere on Capitol Hill, Obama has a strong mandate for change from both chambers of Congress and a mid-October deadline for key congressional committees to send legislation to the full House and Senate.
However Congress did show some fiscal responsibility 
Lawmakers trimmed his tax-cutting plans, refusing to extend his signature tax credit for working families past 2010 unless it is paid for. They sliced $10 billion from his spending request for non-defense programs in the fiscal year that begins in October and jettisoned his suggestion that another $250 billion would be needed to stabilize the banking system. They also refused to authorize the use of reconciliation for his plan to cap greenhouse gas emissions.
The budget resolution is a nonbinding document that does not enact policy, but establishes rules for much of the legislation that will be considered in the coming months. It sets limits for spending on most existing government programs and permits lawmakers to pursue certain additional initiatives so long as they do not increase the deficit.
The resolution also creates a reconciliation process for health care and Obama’s plan to dramatically expand the federal college loan program. Under the resolution, if key committees produce health and education legislation by Oct. 15, those measures could pass the Senate with only 51 votes instead of the usual 60.
