Gingrich Claims "Supercommittee" Is Unconstitutional
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at 1:29PMBy Gabrielle Pfafflin
GOP Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich blasted the “supercommittee” Tuesday during an appearance at the Heritage Foundation. The Former House Speaker claimed that, by its nature, the 12 person committee tasked with finding $1.5 trillion in savings will act unconstitutionally.
“[The supercommittee] is a disaster in process, it’s a disaster in constitutional means, and it’s a disaster in solving our major problems,” Gingrich said.
Gingrich explained that it would allow 12 members of the entire Congress to decide fiscal solutions without input from the other 520 members of Congress. He added that he found it ridiculous to believe that one committee will succeed where 117 others could not.
Congress founded the “super committee” in the 11th hour debt deal that went through to raise the debt ceiling. If it fails to pass a proposal, then $1.2 trillion in cuts will be made equally among Defense and discretionary spending.
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