Protesters storm House Speaker John Boehner's Capital Hill office over sequester fallout, fight allegedly breaks out with Boehner staffer, Ohio Congresspersons Fudge, Beatty, Ryan had urged Kasich to urge Congressional Republicans to help stop sequester of massive spending cuts, President Obama signed sequester order on Friday
U.S. House of Representatives Republican Speaker John Boehner for Ohio
Ohio Republican Governor John Kasich
Ohio Democratic Congresspersons from left, Reps. Marcia L. Fudge, Joyce Beatty and Tim Ryan
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Protesters angry over a
breakdown in discussions between President Obama and Democratic and
Republican Congressional Leaders that resulted in a presidential sequester order
on Friday for massive across-the-board- spending cuts picketed the Capital Hill office
of Republican House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio three days before the debacle and allegedly attacked a staffer, a Capital Hill source told Cleveland Urban
News.Com Friday evening.
“On Tuesday morning 50 protesters
were banging on the Capital Hill office door of Rep. Boehner
demanding the he stop what was about to become a sequester, and when
one of his female staffers stepped in the hallway to try to calm the
crowd she was pushed and shoved and another staffer had to rescue
her,” the source said. “At mid morning 25 more protesters
appeared and by 1:30 pm protesters were banging on the door demanding
to see the House Speaker.”
The source said that the issue became so heated that a group that was
meeting with staff members for support from Boehner on a community
project issue had to be ushered out of his office.
Boehner was not in his office at the time and
held a press conference the day before and accused the president and Congressional Democrats of demanding higher taxes and thus causing the sequester, another name for massive across-the-board spending cuts.
"You know the president proposed the sequester, yet he's far more interested in holding campaign rallies than he is in urging his Senate Democrats to actually pass a plan," said Boehner.
Obama and Congressional Democrats argue that the spending cuts to education, unemployment, and other federal programs with no increase in revenue are ludicrous and will hurt vulnerable Americans and the middle class.
On Thursday, a day before the president was forced to sign the sequester order after negotiations fell through and the March 1 sequester deadline came to fruition, Ohio Democratic congresspersons Rep. Joyce Beatty, Tim Ryan, and Marcia L. Fudge, who is also chairperson of the Congressional Black Caucus, sent a letter to Republican Governor John Kasich demanding that he urge Congressional Republicans to come back to the sequester bargaining table.
"As governor of Ohio, we trust you understand the significance the sequester will have on our economy, and how we must all join together to work in a bi-partisan fashion to do everything we can to avoid the self-inflicted wound from partisan bickering," the letter reads in part.
Fudge, a Warrensville Hts. Democrat, and Beatty, a Columbus Democrat elected to Congress for the first time last year, are the only two Black congresspersons for Ohio.
Kasich, himself, is a former congressman.
"You know the president proposed the sequester, yet he's far more interested in holding campaign rallies than he is in urging his Senate Democrats to actually pass a plan," said Boehner.
Obama and Congressional Democrats argue that the spending cuts to education, unemployment, and other federal programs with no increase in revenue are ludicrous and will hurt vulnerable Americans and the middle class.
On Thursday, a day before the president was forced to sign the sequester order after negotiations fell through and the March 1 sequester deadline came to fruition, Ohio Democratic congresspersons Rep. Joyce Beatty, Tim Ryan, and Marcia L. Fudge, who is also chairperson of the Congressional Black Caucus, sent a letter to Republican Governor John Kasich demanding that he urge Congressional Republicans to come back to the sequester bargaining table.
"As governor of Ohio, we trust you understand the significance the sequester will have on our economy, and how we must all join together to work in a bi-partisan fashion to do everything we can to avoid the self-inflicted wound from partisan bickering," the letter reads in part.
Fudge, a Warrensville Hts. Democrat, and Beatty, a Columbus Democrat elected to Congress for the first time last year, are the only two Black congresspersons for Ohio.
Kasich, himself, is a former congressman.
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