Read the Reid Plan. Read the Boehner Plan. Get Back to Me. (Slate)

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Read the Reid Plan. Read the Boehner Plan. Get Back to Me.

By David Weigel

Posted Tuesday, Jul. 26, 2011, at 6:48 PM EDT

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/07/26/read_the_reid_plan_read_the_boehner_plan_get_back_to_me_.html

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The full text documents are now online. I haven't read them and probably won't until much later tonight. Maybe somebody good at reading legislative language and with time today could comment on whether this sounds right:

On the Reid plan, from Stuart Zechman:

I’m reading the Reid bill, and it’s not somewhat-less-evil, it’s different-evil-than-theirs.

As an example of what I mean by that, a full 36 out of 104 pages of the bill are solely devoted to selling off some public spectrum and reclaiming other spectrum for “Public Safety”. I’m not exaggerating. Literally a third of Reid’s “debt ceiling” bill is composed of terms for “Auctions of Spectrum and Spectrum Management” and “Public Safety Broadband Network.”

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/07/links-72711.html

More @stuart_zechman

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1. Ooops. CBO: Reid Bill $500 Billion Shy of Target

By Steven T. Dennis
Roll Call Staff
July 27, 2011

A Congressional Budget Office analysis released Wednesday morning found that the deficit cutting bill proposed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) cuts significantly deeper and faster than the one proposed by Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), although it still fell $500 billion less than the $2.7 trillion advertised.

Sources indicated, however, that Reid was already in the process of tweaking his proposal, which is why he has not yet begun the time-consuming procedural maneuvers needed to bring the measure to a vote in the Senate.

http://www.rollcall.com/news/cbo-says-reid-bill-500-billion-dollars-shy-of-target-207729-1.html?pos=adp

see also
BOOYAH! MY FICTIONAL NUMBER BEATS YOUR FICTIONAL NUMBER!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1587103

Tomorrow maybe.