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Evan Bayh calls on President Obama to veto spending bill
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| News Date | Monday, December 14, 2009 09:55:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) is calling on President Barack Obama to veto the $446.8 billion omnibus spending bill the Senate passed Sunday.
Bayh – who joined Sens. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) in breaking from their party to oppose the bill – said in a statement Monday that Washington politicians “are totally out of touch with the sacrifices middle-class Americans are making.”
“The president didn’t create this mess, but Congress must be restrained,” Bayh said. “We have to take the credit card away from the politicians who just want to spend, spend, spend. More than $1 trillion of spending was just way too much. This may not win me a popularity contest in the halls of Congress, but it’s the right thing to do." |
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