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Obama’s ’Super Congress’ Meets Resistance

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From both the House and Senate yesterday came an opening shot of what must become a juggernaut for the immediate repeal of President Obama’s Hitlerite "Enabling Act" passed by Congress last August, the act which created the unconstitutional, 12-member" Super Committee" encharged with slashing everything in the federal budget, except the bailout of Wall Street and foreign speculators.

Lawfully, this assertion of free will against the tyranny of Congress’s suicide pact to "go along to get along" with the elimination of the U.S. Constitution, came from two members who have fought for the restoration of Glass-Steagall.

While others still beg the "Super Committee" to protect this or that interest, Congresswoman Maxine Waters of California, an early co-sponsor of H.R. 1489 Glass-Steagall bill, has introduced a short bill to disband the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, and restore Congress’s Constitutional prerogatives.

The press release from her office states: "The bill repeals the provisions of the Budget Control Act of 2011 that create, fund, and establish the Super Committee’s rules. Further, the bill repeals the enforcement mechanisms that trigger automatic budget cuts in defense and discretionary spending. All other provisions, including the debt ceiling increase, would remain intact."

Rep. Waters argued: "I firmly believe that Congress should be focused squarely on this nation’s unemployment crisis. Since the Super Committee’s single charge is to produce $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction—which could include cuts to programs that create jobs—it must be promptly dismantled so that regular order can be restored and the federal government can fully dedicate itself to creating jobs and stimulating the economy... The committee is an illegitimate shell game which poor and middle-class Americans will lose. It flies in the face of basic principles of fairness and transparency. How can 12 people decide the fate of millions Americans behind closed doors with little to no input from Congress or the average citizen?... The 523 Members of the House and Senate who do not serve on the Super Committee will be excluded from having the opportunity to represent their constituents’ interests in Super Committee’s bill."

For his part, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who in 2010 co-sponsored the Glass-Steagall amendment to the Dodd-Frank bill shot down by Obama and cronies, stated in a press conference yesterday that he, and others in the Senate, will not permit the automatic, across-the-board cuts to the defense budget, should the "Super Committee" fail to reach an agreement. He cited Sen. Levin as sharing this view.

"If there’s a failure on the part of the Super Committee that we will be amongst the first on the floor to nullify that provision. The Congress is not bound by this. It’s something wehttps://larouchepac.com/node/add/slug passed. We can reverse it," Senator McCain stated. He added that he "didn’t agree with a trigger being created to start with. So I had no ownership in that."