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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., told reporters Monday that if Congress passed an emergency spending bill to help Missouri's tornado victims, the money would have to be cut from elsewhere in the budget so the disaster relief funding wouldn't add to the deficit.
On Tuesday, a day after his remarks, a key House subcommittee did just that. The Appropriations panel approved by voice vote an amendment to a measure funding the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other Department of Homeland Security programs for the 2012 fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1.
The disaster aid package would be financed by $1.5 billion cut from a loan program to encourage the production of fuel-efficient vehicles. That means the new spending wouldn't add to out-of-control budget deficits.
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Unbelievable...ratbastards.
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