House GOP leaders blink -The Hill (what does this mean?)

[Rose Siding]

It looks like DeLay was squeezed out of negotiations -an interesting point- but the end result is confusing. It looks like the GOP struck a deal within factions in order to pass the budget.

But part of the deal sounds like once a budget is passed, additional spending bills won't require a majority to pass (!!), which sort of eliminates one of the PRIMARY FUNCTIONS OF CONGRESS.

Lacking votes to pass the budget, House Republican leaders struck a deal yesterday with conservative members who had demanded reforms to the spending process.
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Republican leaders had charged that the reform demanded by members of the RSC would tie the leadership’s hands and empower House Democrats. But realizing that they would otherwise lack the votes to pass the budget this week, the GOP leaders yesterday agreed to conservatives’ demand that waiving budget rules for future spending bills require approval by a majority of the House.
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After RSC Chairman Mike Pence (R-Ind.), one of the key lawmakers involved in the contentious push for budget reform, addressed the conference, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) angrily demanded of the conservative rebels how they planned to pass the budget, an implication that reform would make it more difficult to pass budget and appropriations legislation, said a lawmaker who attended the meeting.
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Republican centrists who had joined conservatives in their opposition to a budget resolution not linked to budget reform did not withstand pressure from GOP leaders to fall back into line. The centrists “caved,” in the words of one conservative.

http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/031705/gop.html

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1. I guess DeLay isn't considered a "conservative"

which by the traditional definition is true.

[Rose Siding]

2. better explanation here...

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But a potential revolt in the House by conservatives from the nearly 100-member Republican Study Committee, which demanded that the budget embody stricter antispending procedures, was short-circuited. In a deal with party leaders, the study committee accepted an opportunity to file motions declaring spending bills out of order if they exceeded totals in the congressional budget.

A majority of the House could waive the point of order and pass the bill, but in full public acknowledgment that the bill was a budget-buster.

"I think it's a big victory for everybody," said Rep. Christopher Cox (R-Newport Beach), who brokered the deal as a member of both the Republican leadership and the Republican Study Committee. "I think a lot of Democrats will be happy with this too."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-budget17mar17,1,6894258.story?coll=la-news-politics-national

The point is associated with yesterday's narrowly defeated (50/50) pay-as-you-go legislation in the Senate.