[net-gold] UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT : GOVERNMENT: BUDGETS AND BUDGETING: No Threats, No Favors _ Debt Ceiling Vote a Cultural Change on Capitol Hill

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  • Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 07:24:11 -0400 (EDT)


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UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT : GOVERNMENT: BUDGETS AND BUDGETING:
No Threats, No Favors _
Debt Ceiling Vote a Cultural Change on Capitol Hill

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No Threats, No Favors _
Debt Ceiling Vote a Cultural Change on Capitol Hill
By Associated Press,
Published: August 4, 2011 Washington Post
Post Politics
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/no-threats-no-favors-_-
debt-ceiling-vote-a-cultural-change-on-capitol-hill/ 2011/08/04/gIQAgPReuI_story.html

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A shorter URL for the above link:

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http://tinyurl.com/3o27l3p

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WASHINGTON Speaker John Boehner was desperate in his search for votes from his party to prevent a first-ever government default.

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But despite what a GOP freshman called hour by hour by hour pressure from the Ohio Republican leader and his lieutenants, rank-and-file holdouts said they were neither offered carrots nor threatened with sticks to change their minds. Thats a major transformation from the not too distant past.

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There were no promises of new bridges or campaign help. No threats to boot members off coveted committees. And, if some of those tactics had been tried, its unlikely that many House Republican tea party supporters would have been swayed. They came to Washington disdainful of such wheeling and dealing and promising to fix what members of both parties had come to describe as a culture of corruption.

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Boehner, who has risen, fallen and risen again in the House GOP hierarchy, has long shunned earmarked pet projects and had no objection when more conservative deficit hawks succeeded in getting them banned.

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One GOP holdout on the debt bill, Rep. Connie Mack of Florida, recalled a time early in his career when he was withholding his vote from the Republican leadership and saw The Hammer then-Majority Leader Tom DeLay walking toward him in the House chamber.

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He came over with a finger pointing at my chest, the four-term lawmaker said. He was telling me what Im going to do and why. He said, You wont make it long in this town by defying the party leadership.

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Mack doesnt remember what the issue was, but he remembers not budging.

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The ways of the past are gone, Mack said. There hasnt been a threat of taking something away or promising something. I can remember the hammer coming down on me. Its completely different, much more open and honest.

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That doesnt mean there wasnt pressure, especially when Boehner had to postpone a vote on his legislation last week for lack of Republican support, and faced questions about his hold on the speakership.

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The complete article may be read at the URL above.

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