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RAY SUAREZ (Newshour): President Obama today said he wants fast-track authority to consolidate federal agencies. He called on Congress to give him that reorganization power that no president has had for almost 30 years.
Margaret Warner has more.
MARGARET WARNER (Newshour): The president invited business owners to the White House to hear his proposal.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Today, I am calling on Congress to reinstate the authority that past presidents have had to streamline and reform the executive branch.
MARGARET WARNER: That fast-track authority expired in 1984, when Ronald Reagan was president. If Congress restores it, President Obama could propose cost-cutting consolidations and be guaranteed an up-or-down vote within 90 days.
Want to bet that the "anything Obama is evil" Republicans (in reality The Tea Party) will oppose this? Even though this could be used by a Republican President.
Another excerpt
STEVEN DENNIS, Roll Call: Well, the reality is anything that the president proposes this year is going to have -- is going to cause -- have all kinds of trouble getting through Congress.
But this -- the interesting thing to me about this proposal is that this gives him a chance to go on offense on an issue that he's been playing defense on for the past year. The Senate House Republicans have been battering him over the deficit and spending. He could at least say, look, I want this authority to cut spending, to make government more efficient, and look who is standing in the way: Congress.
Of course this has always been a problem during ANY election cycle, BOTH parties putting election politics ahead of actually doing what our nations needs done. In other words, putting their party's agenda ahead of our nation's needs.
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