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Showing Original Post only (View all)They NEVER Learn: Tammy Baldwin Responds To Condescending GOP Senator - HuffPo [View all]
Tammy Baldwin To Ron Johnson: 'I'm Quite Confident' I Understand The Federal BudgetAmanda Terkel - HuffPo
Posted: 11/09/2012 2:42 pm EST
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WASHINGTON -- Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D), Wisconsin's new senator-elect, is confident that she will be able to understand the federal budget without the assistance of Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.).
In an Associated Press interview on Wednesday, Johnson said he hoped he would be able to work with Baldwin in the Senate -- as soon as he explained the "facts" of the budget to her.
"Hopefully I can sit down and lay out for her my best understanding of the federal budget because they're simply the facts," he said. "Hopefully she'll agree with what the facts are and work toward common sense solutions."
"I was a double major in college in mathematics and political science, and I served for six years on the House Budget Committee in my first six years in the House," Baldwin responded in an interview with The Huffington Post on Friday.
"And I am very confident that when proposals come before the U.S. Senate, I will be able to evaluate them as to how they benefit or harm middle-class Wisconsinites. A yardstick of 'does it create jobs,' 'does it lower the deficit' and 'does it help grow the middle class' is an important one. I'm quite confident that I have those abilities," she added.
Baldwin has served in Congress since 1999; Johnson took office in 2011.
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More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/09/tammy-baldwin-ron-johnson-federal-budget_n_2102760.html
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They NEVER Learn: Tammy Baldwin Responds To Condescending GOP Senator - HuffPo [View all]
WillyT
Nov 2012
OP
yup. i have learned from du, minimal words, no emotion and still... all the adjectives are hurled
seabeyond
Nov 2012
#103
She should have said .... "And I doubt he has the math skills to count his own balls."
JoePhilly
Nov 2012
#6
So RJ is gonna "mansplain" the budget to a woman who has a decade ...
ProfessionalLeftist
Nov 2012
#15
Hah! That was patronizing. What an ass he is. Well, Wisconsin, at least you have one
calimary
Nov 2012
#54
I think that this post of yours is most definitely good enough for a stand-alone thread.
CaliforniaPeggy
Nov 2012
#71
Doubt it, but Obama got it right...go out and field the New America...the new voters...our future
libdem4life
Nov 2012
#107
WOW. Is it possible Johns didn't know she has sered in Congress -- on the Budget committee?
BlueStreak
Nov 2012
#61