{"id":136673,"date":"2017-09-18T21:42:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T21:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/09\/18\/gop-senator-blasts-cowardly-democrats-over-scuttled-sequestration-repeal\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:27:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:27:50","slug":"gop-senator-blasts-cowardly-democrats-over-scuttled-sequestration-repeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2017\/09\/18\/gop-senator-blasts-cowardly-democrats-over-scuttled-sequestration-repeal\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP senator blasts \u2018cowardly\u2019 Democrats over scuttled sequestration repeal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., in a fiery Senate floor speech Monday blamed Democrats for an impasse that quashed his measure to repeal sequestration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cotton, a Senate Armed Services Committee member and combat veteran who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, lashed out Monday, blaming Democrats for letting a change to end dysfunctional budgeting slip away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy amendment was the last, best chance in years to stop this bust and boom cycle of budgeting,\u201d Cotton said. \u201cThey took a perfectly good bipartisan opportunity to repeal these automatic spending cuts and they threw it away.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cotton ripped SASC Democrats for opposing budget caps set by the 2011 Budget Control Act for \u201chiding\u201d from the vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEvery one of those Democrats who sit on the Armed Services Committee and have claimed to want to stop these automatic spending cuts can go home and tell the men and women in uniform in their states that they had a chance to vote on it and they were too cowardly even to put their name on the rolls,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Friday, debate ended without votes on hundreds of controversial amendments to the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act after what SASC Chair John McCain, R-Ariz., described as an impasse over a package of four amendments \u2014 including Cotton\u2019s.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 100 noncontroversial amendments were added to the bill without votes, but only one controversial amendment received a vote. The Senate voted to table a measure from Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., to sunset America\u2019s war authorizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2017\/09\/13\/us-senate-tables-paul-measure-to-scrap-war-authorizations\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/635641866149935760-gop-2016-paul-smaljpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">US Senate tables Rand Paul measure to scrap war authorizations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Lawmakers took a notable vote to scuttle a proposal to scrap America\u2019s current war authorizations on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cotton\u2019s amendment would not have repealed or raised statutory caps on discretionary spending, but it would have repealed their enforcement mechanism, sequestration. When the caps are exceeded, it triggers sequestration, an across-the-board budget cut.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s unclear whether Cotton\u2019s amendment would have passed in the Senate. The proposition of repealing sequestration or caps would likely have received resistance in the House from Democrats and GOP fiscal hawks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Easing those caps \u2014&nbsp;as lawmakers have done for several years as part of bipartisan, omnibus spending deals to fund the federal government \u2014 requires 60 votes in the Senate, rather than a simple majority. That, in turn, has driven the Republicans who lead a divided GOP caucus to seek bargains with Democrats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., vice chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and lead Democratic negotiator on the last budget deal, acknowledged the caps useful are useful to Democrats because they provide leverage to negotiate for a match between non-defense and defense spending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some Democrats also said they could not support Cotton\u2019s measure because it leaves caps in place for mandatory spending on some social safety net programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cotton, on the floor Monday, blasted that rationale as a pretext, noting that Democrats have voted to extend the sequester on mandatory spending. It is extended into 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDon\u2019t give me that,\u201d he said. \u201cThe automatic sequester consists of a small, almost trivial amount of cuts. 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