Reid brush back Obama Assign Ban - The Hill (blog)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday brushed a proposal under President Obama to ban affects.

Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill, Reid said the plan "very much" and would leave too much power to the executive.

It would be "more power to the President, and has enough power already," he said.

Obama should call to reserve a ban in his State of the Union address he delivered Tuesday night included. Obama and Reid were on opposite sides of the earmark debate long ago, and Reid's comments show that the proposal could run into the upper chamber on the bottom.

The president should announce the identity and a temporary ban freezing non-defense discretionary spending in his speech Tuesday night in an effort to extend an olive branch to fiscal conservatives, particularly exciting as it also means that the required expenditure for specific projects in education and infrastructure.

But the Senate rejected a two-year moratorium on spending the trough in November last year with a handful of Republicans joining most Democrats in opposition.

Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Kentucky) said Tuesday that Obama's budget freeze is not even enough to cover the Republicans who want to implement spending cuts to meet more.

"It's hard to be the majority of us that efforts by the House of Representatives to take us back to 2008 levels would be spending the way forward if we really wanted to have an impact on our annual deficit problem, he said.