(Washington, D.C.) – Representative Mulvaney released the following statement on the government shutdown:
“I’ve received a good many calls and emails this week from folks expressing their opinions about the government shutdown. I’m grateful for the feedback and I am listening to your concerns.
Please know that the House of Representatives is doing everything we can to re-open the government. Indeed — and this unfortunately doesn’t get reported much in the national media — we have sent four different options to the Senate, all of which were immediately rejected (without even being debated). The last offer we made was simply an invitation to sit down and try to work through a compromise. Honestly, I was surprised they rejected that one, as it is exactly what many Democrats said they wanted.
I am hopeful we can resolve this as soon as the Senate agrees to engage in a conversation. Why the Senate and the President won’t even discuss small changes to Obamacare is beyond me. Earlier this year, the President unilaterally delayed the part of the law that applies to large corporations. The House simply asked that the same extension apply to our families. I am at a complete loss why he doesn’t think that isn’t even worth discussing.
In the meantime, you should know that our troops are still being paid and social security checks are going out. In fact, about 75 percent of the government is open for business. In many ways, then, this is a government “slowdown” more than it is a “shutdown.” I know that is not much consolation for folks who are personally affected by the 25 percent of government that is closed, but again, the House is working to fix that.
Finally, many of you have asked how it is that I can continue to receive my paycheck while so many federal employees are furloughed. I happen to agree that it’s wrong for Members of Congress to get paid while other federal workers do not. To that end, I have sent a letter to the Chief Administrative Officer asking that my pay be withheld until the shutdown is resolved.
As always, thank you for the input, and for taking the time to let your opinions be heard. If more people did that, I am convinced our government would run much more effectively than it does.“
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#SHUT’ERDOWN #Obuttheadcare #ObamaFailsAgain
Shut it down and leave it down.
Don’t you love it when a rich guy who doesn’t need anything, feels he is one of the folks by telling his employer, “just put my check aside, I’ll pick it up later.” ? You notice he did not say, I will give up my salary and benefits for the duration of the shut down. He just agrees not to cash his check until the shut down is over. Well isn’t that grand? What a huge sacrifice!
Mick Mulvaney lives on the back of the taxpayers. He is one of the accomplished takers. He is paid $174,000 a year (for what?) plus a housing allowance, plus perks and trips paid for by lobbyists, plus travel and meals paid for out of campaign contributions, plus government health care, plus government retirement plus a staff to run personal errands. Why do Teapublicans hate everyones government benefits except their own?
It must be a lot of work to hold back the snicker, everytime he goes to the bank, or has an intern go for him.
Nice post, now go get me a Pappa Murphys Pizza with your EBT card.
Wrong, I assure you I pay a lot of money in income and property taxes, and unlike your buddy Mick, I have never lived on the back of the taxpayers in my life.
You Teapublicans think that everyone who does not agree with you is poor and dumb or getting a check from the government, like Mick. Well you are very wrong, but of course you are probably too dumb to know that. That is certainly what Mick counts on.
Actually, you might identify me as a teabillie, its really not the average liberal that scare me. It’s the ones that where their conscious on their lapel. The ones that think they’re Robin hood. They’re the real sob’s.
You mean “robbing hood”.
Freaking smart phones. Yeah right. Oh well.
Mick, like most successful Americans, has worked hard for the money he has. He wants others to enjoy that same success through a better-regulated government. When he says “limited” he means it in the manner of market-based solutions and not knee-jerk, good-intention regulation that hurts the economy, shrinks our paychecks, and weakens our economy. I applaud him for highlighting the disappointing disposition the Senate and our president have decided to take. Instead of playing party politics, pointing fingers, and turning the issue from a bipartisan issue to a selfish one, Obama and Co should be working towards solutions.
Yea, right. The teapublicans have done nothing but obstruct government from day one. Their stated goal was to get rid of Obama and they have been unwilling to compromise on anything. That is why the government is shut down. They alone are responsible.
Well, it isn’t really “shut down,” it’s downsized. It’s everybody up there’s fault, not just Mick’s.
Tell that to the low income senior citizens whose nutrition centers have been shut down. Its shut down, and while maybe not you hundreds of thousands of people are suffering because of it.
Ahhhh. They can’t steal the food from our childrens mouths anymore. Poor things. Tsk, tsk.
Keep up the good work, teapublicans. SHUTERDOWN
What was he playing at in 2011 when he helped downgrade our credit and tumble the stockmarket? Being a good statesman? I’m holding my words for Mick till the debt ceiling. If he and his buddies default on our debt they are in for a big backlash from individuals like me who don’t post on his facebook, email or phone to complain.
He didn’t downgrade our credit, he refused to increase our debt ceiling. Doing so would have done WAY more damage than not doing it, and it would’ve delayed the tough decisions even further.
They downgraded us after the debt ceiling was raised and after the GOP refused to accept the grand bargain to take a big bite out of the deficit. Yes, S&P blamed part of the downgrade on the ones who were claiming they didn’t care if they defaulted on the debt. In other words thet Tea Party idiots.
Without specifically mentioning Republicans, S&P senior director Joydeep Mukherji said the stability and effectiveness of American political institutions were undermined by the fact that “people in the political arena were even talking about a potential default,” Mukherji said.
“That a country even has such voices, albeit a minority, is something notable,” he added. “This kind of rhetoric is not common amongst AAA sovereigns.”
Nobody can truly be as stupid as you portray yourself (can they?) So i will call it youth. In the last 40+/- years, there has been a ‘grand bargain’ on average every election cycle. Our debt as a nation has increased in total some 15.9 trillion dollars. Get it?
It’s interesting how the blame a credit rating drop on the debt ceiling and a potential default without once referring to 42 years of overspending.
It’s like you live in some fantasy land where you can spend more than you take in for eternity without ramification.
Then again, it took the Soviet Union a good 50 years before it collapsed for similar reasons, so I suppose in a weird way 50 years to some people seems like an eternity.
I’m quoting what S&P stated about the downgrade.
Living in a fantasy land is believing that defaulting on the debt ceiling is no big deal and won’t send our economy in a downward spiral. Nero and his fiddle=tea baggers, shut it down, don’t retreat, stay strong.
Tea people are either stupid or don’t have a pot to piss in as far as investments.
“I’m quoting what S&P stated about the downgrade.”
“If he and his buddies default on our debt they are in for a big backlash from individuals like me”
No, you’re really not. I think you characterize these “tea people” as evil because they see the long term problem with borrowing against future generations to feed the wealth of current ones.
“Tea people are either stupid or don’t have a pot to piss in as far as investments.”
and this statement makes my point. I’ll bet many of them do have investments, but don’t want generational debt saddled on their kids via the casino stock market fueled by money printing/debt.
No, he doesn’t believe that. He’s just regurgitating pablum.
He lives in his office Bill. He does not get a “housing allowance” except the normal per diem allowance when traveling on official business. He gets a $3,000 a year deduction to help defray living expenses – $3,000 gets a one bedroom walk up in DC for a month. He can only use campaign funds when he is “campaigning”- we just fired Senator Ford for using his campaign funds for wining and dining (and buying sex toys).
But hey, don’t let a few facts get in the way of a good rant.
What facts did I misstate? Does he not get the salary? Does he not get help paying for housing? Does he not get perks and trips from lobbyists? Are there any trips that cannot be categorized as campaigning? Maybe I misspoke about his intention. Is he really giving money back to the government, or is he just agreeing not to cash the check until later? Maybe I am wrong about the government health care and government retirement, am I?
Once again why do Teapublicans hate everyone’s benefits except their own?
You asked, here we go…
“…Mick Mulvaney lives on the back of the taxpayers. He is one of the accomplished takers. He is paid $174,000 a year (for what?) plus a housing allowance (lie – as I’ve already stated he get a $3 grand tax write off, just like you’d get if you used your suburban for work), plus perks and trips paid for by lobbyists, plus travel and meals paid for out of campaign contributions(grand exaggeration/lie, he has taken no honoraria or lobbyist funded trips http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/CIDsummary.php?CID=N00031412&year=2009) ), plus government health care, plus government retirement plus a staff to run personal errands. (biased exaggeration, almost all federal employees (as do most full time, salaried, privately employed employees) get the same deal) Why do Teapublicans hate everyones government benefits except their own?…”(Wouldn’t know, I’m neither, the only thing I patently hate is agenda driven liars)
It must be a lot of work to hold back the snicker, everytime he goes to the bank, or has an intern go for him.
How is what I said a lie or an exaggeration. I did not give numbers, except salary. The rest of the stuff is true. I will give you the housing write off as opposed to the allowance. But the rest is true. If you expect me to believe he has never been taken out and wined and dined by lobbyist, I call BS on that. They all have. Figuring out how to do that is what K Street is all about.
As for the fact he is considered a government employee; that has no bearing on what I said. Regardless of how you want to couch it, he is still living on the backs of the taxpayer, making more than 95% of Americans, with government health care and government retirement most people would love to have; all while complaining about all the takers out there and saying government health care and government retirement is bad. He is a typical hypocrite, just like Ryan, Rubio, and Cruz.
And what the heck is an average net worth member of Congress. Does the fact he is not richer than most other Congressmen make him less rich. My experience is no matter what they are worth when they go in, they somehow end up with far more net worth than they could possibly have earned from a salary.
I also hate agenda driven liars.
Didn’t read the rest of your drive, but Mick is not of “average net worth” See below…
http://apps.washingtonpost.com/politics/capitol-assets/member/mick-mulvaney/
He’s worth about $3.9 million, 50% of which is in real estate. The “average congressman” is worth about $1,000,000, Mulvaney is in the upper 40% percentile in what we would call the bell curve of “average wealth”.
He’s broke compared to Issa who founded and ran a car alarm company, he’s worth about $450,000,000 (Issa is apparently an expert in car theft having stolen several cars himself…).
But compared to some he’s Daddy Warbuck. The wealth curve is skewed because several congressman are more than a million in debt (Aaron Schock from Chicago is in debt to the tune of 1.2 million, Alcee Hastings owes something north of 2.3 million)
What is the point of telling us all of this? You have not only disproven your own point, “that he is an average net worth member of congress” because he is not. You have also confirmed he will not suffer by letting his check sit in the bank until after the shutdown is over at which point he will deposit the money into his account .
So in the end what was this stupid press release all about?
We know the House is not doing everything it can to reopen government.
We know Mick not cashing his check until later is meaningless.
I thought you hated agenda driven liars, like Mick.
If he lives in his office, he’s a bigger fool than I thought. Nothing in the Cannon House Office Bldg that I’d want to live in or use in pulling off such a stunt.
There are 40 or more of them doing the same thing.
Hahahahaha, you people will believe anything.
Facts are immaterial to Liberals,Democrats and the uninformed!
You have to love a “limited gov’t champion” like Mulvaney apologizing for a 25% gov’t shutdown.
Hell, I’ll bet at least 50% of his supporters are fine with it. What a douche.
Watched as government employee told him he was worthless. He stood there with his toothy shit eating grin. Few people are in greater need of an ass whippin.
I’m surprised you didn’t give it to him. Are you a pussy?
So Mick, when are you going to run against Lindsay?
I asked him that very question last week – he just smiled his little smile and said nothing. I’d take Mick over Lindsey any day of the week and twice on Tuesday.
The last offer we made was simply an invitation to sit down and try to work through a compromise.
What were the offers made leading up to the shutdown? Yeah, thought so.
Earlier this year, the President unilaterally delayed the part of the law that applies to large corporations. The House simply asked that the same extension apply to our families. I am at a complete loss why he doesn’t think that isn’t even worth discussing.
Individual mandates are significantly reduced for the first year, being either $95 or 1% of the household income, whichever is greater. This is also a fee that the IRS has no ability to come after you for. The most they can theoretically do is deduct it from your returns.
You’re comparing apples to oranges.
Mulvaney, Gowdy and Duncan are members of the “Suicide Caucus” that is forcing the Republican Party to make extortionate demands before they will refrain from forcing the US to default on the debt obligations authorized by Congress, and that the Obama administration must pay.
Time for Obama to order Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to have the US Mint make a couple of those $1T platinum coins, run them over to Ben Bernanke at the Fed — and voila! — no debt ceiling for the Republicans to use as a hostage, no being forced to break any laws.
Lets see a Teabagger get on a plane now…
http://www.passnational.org
Lets see a Teabagger get on a plane now…
If the House of Representatives is really doing “everything” or whatever to keep the gov running, then why not just let the entire House vote on a plan? It would appear that the House is NOT doing the most simple thing it could do to solve this mess.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/02/clean-funding-bill_n_4031784.html
Tee hee. Hufpo. Hee hee. Giggle
Tee hee. Pytel. Hee hee. Giggle
This douchbag hates Government UNLESS he can personally benefit from it. Google the “Indian Land Boondoggle” and see what kind of taxpayer mess ‘poor mick’ left Lancaster County in. Where was his TEA Party – Anti-Government stance when he was running around promising rose petals and flowers to go with his $30 Million bond??? Now that less Government hurts others and not Micks back pocket, he is anti-government…
What do you think?…
It’s not really a post about Mick Mulvaney until the old IL Boondoggle gets mentioned. I think we’re done here.
BULL SHIT!!!!!!!!
I do appreciate what you are trying to do!