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Carrollton -- Third District U.S. Congressman Lynn Westmoreland spoke to a group of constituents yesterday on several issues regarding the stalemate that has consumed Washington D.C. the past year. With regard to the debt ceiling, Westmoreland says the debt ceiling adjustment will fail in the house, but that doesn’t mean the debt ceiling won’t get raised. “Here’s how backwards Washington is… This is a disapproval resolution that if it passes the House means that the House disapproves giving the President $1.2 Trillion. We will disapprove of him getting that,” he says. “The Senate will approve of him getting it. But let’s say the Senate disapproved… and the House disapproved. Then he could veto the disapproval which means he is making it approved and the House nor does the Senate have the vote to override a veto.”
Westmoreland says he believes this next year is going to continue to be hard work for local businesses and he says local businesses should know House Republicans are working for them. “We’re trying to do some things to make a little more certainty in what business owners’ taxes are going to be, what their energy cost is going to be, what their health cost is going to be,” he says. You try to stop some of the regulations that this administration is doing not through Congress, so we passed a bill that says any new regulations that affected businesses more than $100M had to come back through Congress to be approved. Now, it has not passed the Senate.”
Westmoreland says election years are always rough for getting things done in Washington because the political process really slows things as Congressmen on both sides of the aisle are afraid to do anything prior to an election. Westmoreland says this November, twenty-three Senate Democrats are up for re-election while only 10 republicans face re-election. He says this means that a more effective Congress could be on its way pending the 2012 election.