10 Things to Expect Next Year If Republicans Win the Senate
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1 Center for American Progress | 10 Things to Expect Next Year If Republicans Win the Senate 10 Things to E xpect Next Year If Republicans Win the Senate By Ton y Carrk October 24, 2014 Wih he m id erm elec ions less han wo w eeks awa y , h e o cus o m os na ional cove rag e is which pary will conrol he U.S. Senae nex year. Predicions have gone back and orh bewe en he D emoc ras rea inin g h eir majori y 1 and epublicans aking conrol o he upper chamber. 2 Ul imaely, he oucome will be deermined by a hand ul o races ha are currenly oo close o call. 3 However , perhaps a more imporan quesion o ponder is no who will win, bu rah er: Wha will a ne wly c ons iu ed S ena e d o? While so me h ave criic ized can- didaes in boh paries or no ariculaing a clear agenda or hi s year’s elecion, 4 hose who have been paying atenion o he poliics playing ou over he pas year have a very good idea o wha he epublicans will have in sore should hey reake he majoriy in he Senae. I he epublicans gain conrol o he Senae, here are he 10 hings o expec. 1. Additional attempts to use the budget process to advance a conservative ideological agenda Senae Minoriy Leader Mich McConnell (-KY) old Politic o in Augus ha he inends o use he appropriaion process o push his conservaive agenda should he become he Senae majoriy leader . “ W e’r e going o pass spending bil ls, and hey ’re going o have a lo o resricions on he aciviies o he bureaucracy. … Ta’ s somehing [he presiden] won’ like, bu ha will be done. I guaran ee i, ” he said. 5 Congressional epublicans have ollowed his sraegy beore. When Presiden Barack Obama and Congress were debaing raising he deb ceiling in 2011, House epublicans reused o increase he deb limi wihou geting draconian spending cus as par o he deal. I Congress had ailed o raise he deb limi, he Unied Saes would have deauled on is deb or he firs ime in he naion’s hisory and desabilized he world economy. Boh paries reached an 11h-hour agreemen ha cu he defici by more han $2 rillion 6 bu also pu in p lace se quesra ion, or a uoma ic spend ing cus ha wo uld go ino eff ec i Congress could no reach an agreemen regarding urher defici reducion. 7 Afer reach- ing he summer 2013 agreemen, Sen. McConnell said, “I hink some o our members may have hough he deaul issue was a hosage you migh ake a chance a shooing. … Mos o us didn’ hink ha. Wha we did learn is his i’s a hosage ha’s worh ransoming. And i oc uses he Congr ess on somehing ha m us be done.” 8
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