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House GOP struggles to make cuts in budget BY ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Conservatives dominating the House are pushing to scrap last year's budget pact with President Barack Obama and impose new cuts on domestic agencies in an election-year drive to show voters they're serious about shrinking the government. The move is popular with freshman lawmakers elected on a tea party wave in 2010. But veteran lawmakers warn it will produce gridlock later, when Congress has to follow up the springtime debate on a broad budget blueprint with actual spending bills reflecting the new cuts, and get them enacted into law. Driving the discussion is frustration among many Republicans that they haven't done enough to cut spending or curb deficits that still exceed $1 trillion a year. The upcoming budget debate is maybe the last, best forum to demonstrate their bona fides to voters — especially core conservatives they're counting on to turn out in large numbers to maintain the GOP's majority in the House. “There is a lot of pentup demand from our members to show the American people a way forward to fiscal sanity.
We can't continue to have budget deficits of over a trillion dollars a year,” House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Tuesday. “This is not sustainable. So our members want to show the American people a way forward, and they will.” At issue is the arcane way Congress does its annual budget. First comes a debate on a sweeping but nonbinding document that's called a budget resolution. It sets the broad parameters for follow-up legislation on spending and taxes. Last summer's hardfought legislation to lift the government's borrowing limit also set 10 years' worth of new, stringent “caps” on the Cabinet agency budgets set each year by Congress. Lawmakers followed it up in December with a $1 trillion-plus omnibus 2012 spending package that essentially froze dayto-day agency operating budgets. In the eyes of Democrats, the White House and many Republicans, a deal's a deal — the $1.047 trillion agency spending cap for fiscal 2013 should govern the upcoming round of spending bills. “I think that the $1.047 trillion number that was the crux of the bill last year is the right number,” said House Appropria-
tions Committee Chairman Harold Rogers, R-Ky. “It needs to be a reasonable number that will allow us to pass these bills, which by all accounts will require some bipartisanship.” A large contingent of Republicans, however, never supported the underlying debt and budget deal. And they won't support a GOP budget plan that affirms it. “The cap is a ceiling, not a floor. I think there are a lot of people in my conference that would not vote for it at $1.047 trillion just because of the frustration of that,” said Rep. James Lankford, R-Okla. “We have got to address more aggressively the debt issue.” Added Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., “We're just trying to argue that we're really serious about spending less money. A key wrinkle this year is that because the so-called deficit supercommittee failed to agree on at least $1.2 trillion in spending cuts over the coming decade, a round of automatic across-the-board spending cuts will kick in next January. Much of the reasoning behind lowering the caps is that the automatic cuts — called a sequester — would effectively reduce the $1.047 trillion cap by almost $100 billion anyway.
Romney says he’s ready to fight to nomination BY LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney said Wednesday he's “prepared to fight all the way” to become the Republican presidential nominee after padding his delegate count on Super Tuesday. Supporters of his chief rival, Rick Santorum, tried to elbow Newt Gingrich out of the race in an effort to give conservatives a clear alternative to the GOP front-runner. Gingrich, who won only his home state of Georgia in Tuesday's ballot-
ing across 10 states, said Wednesday he's pressing ahead and will “wait and see how the race goes.” He headed for Alabama and Mississippi, hoping to pick up more southern delegates next week. Super Tuesday gave Romney a narrow victory in pivotal Ohio and wins in five other states, while Santorum laid claim to three states. Rep. Ron Paul won none. The split decision refreshed questions about Romney's appeal to conservatives, and guaranteed more convul-
sion ahead as Republicans struggle to settle on a candidate to take on President Barack Obama. Leaders of a super political action committee supporting Santorum said it's time for Gingrich to step aside and let Santorum go head-to-head with Romney. If Gingrich remains in the race “it's only a hindrance to a conservative alternative to Romney,” said Stuart Roy, an adviser to the Red, White and Blue Fund. “And Romney simply won't be the conserva-
tive alternative to Obama.” The PAC has spent about $3 million on TV ads helping Santorum's White House bid, and Roy predicted that Wednesday would be “a good day for fundraising.” Santorum, who was campaigning Wednesday in Kansas and Mississippi, pointed to his wins in the West, the Midwest and the South as proof he can win across this country. Romney, in an appearance on CNBC's “Squawk Box,” insisted he's “getting the kind of support across
the party that I need to become the nominee.” “We've got the time and the resources and a plan to get all the delegates, and we think that will get done before the convention,” Romney said. His campaign announced that Romney raised $11.5 million in February, the secondbest month ever for the campaign. Still, that's not substantially ahead of Santorum, who raised $9 million in February. Gingrich, in a morning appearance on Bill Bennett's “Morning in America” radio program, said there's no evidence Santorum could defeat Romney even in a one-on-one competition. “If I thought he was a slam dunk to beat Romney and to beat Obama, I would really consider getting out,” Gingrich said. “I don't.” Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond said Alabama and Mississippi, which vote on March 13, are must-win states for the former House speaker, although he stopped short of saying Gingrich would get out of the race if he lost there. To that end, Gingrich dropped plans to campaign Friday in Kan-
sas, which holds caucuses Saturday, to focus on the southern states. House Republican Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia argued that Romney's claim to the nomination is inevitable, adding that Santorum and Gingrich “have not demonstrated an ability to do what needs to be done.” But in a morning interview on CBS “This Morning,” Cantor acknowledged there is still plenty of ongoing debate in “a robust party with many ideas.” Obama chose the busiest day of the GOP race to speak from the presidential bully pulpit, where he dismissed the Republicans' almost constant criticism of his administration. “Those folks don't have a lot of responsibilities,” Obama said in a White House news conference. “They're not commander in chief.” In addition to claiming Ohio, Romney scored a home-state win in Massachusetts, and triumphs in Idaho, Vermont, Alaska, and Virginia. Santorum laid claim to Oklahoma, Tennessee and North Dakota.
Gingrich to receive Secret Service detail BY KEN THOMAS Associated Press
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WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich was set to receive Secret Service protection starting Wednesday, two people with knowledge of the security plan confirmed to The Associated Press. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive security matters. The former House speaker is the third GOP hopeful to get a Secret Service detail. Mitt Romney has had Secret Service protection since Feb. 1, and Rick Santorum received Secret Service protection last week. Ron Paul is the only Republican candidate
without a Secret Service detail. Gingrich requested Secret Service protection last month. He was scheduled to campaign Wednesday in Alabama following his win in neighboring Georgia, Gingrich's home state. Alabama's primary is March 13. Secret Service protection is given to each major party's presidential nominee but can be provided earlier if the Homeland Security Department approves a campaign's request. Federal law allows candidates to seek protection if they meet a series of standards, including public prominence as measured by polls and fundraising.