Move to defund Cheney’s office gets “overwhelmingly positive reaction”
A top House Democrat has announced his intention to offer an amendment to strip funding from the yearly budget for the Office of the Vice President.
“On the Hill, there’s an overwhelmingly positive reaction,” a spokesman for Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) said.
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He went on, “This is an important amendment and question, and it’s a choice that the Vice President should make. He cannot be allowed to accept executive branch funding and not adhere to executive branch rules. There is no fourth branch of government.”
Emanuel announced his plan in reaction to the House Oversight Committee’s revelation last week that Cheney’s office had argued that for the purposes of certain laws, the Vice President’s office was not an agency in the executive branch.
Multiple Democratic Congressional staffers told Raw Story that the bill will come up for a vote on Wednesday or Thursday. And staff for Rep. Emanuel, who is the chairman of the Democratic Caucus in the House of Representatives, believed he would have the votes to shrink the Vice President’s budget to zero.
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