{"id":3728,"date":"2010-07-16T19:47:25","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T19:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3728"},"modified":"2010-07-16T19:47:25","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T19:47:25","slug":"david_obey_lock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3728","title":{"rendered":"David Obey Locks Horns with Obama in Budget Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href =\"http:\/\/www.thefiscaltimes.com\/Issues\/Budget-Impact\/2010\/07\/16\/~\/link.aspx?_id=FDBA6C158DDD466CAD023CCE6FFA595D&#038;_z=z\">Eric Pianin<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><I>This summer is fast turning into a bittersweet swan song for David Obey, the veteran Democratic House member from Wisconsin.<br \/>\nThe mercurial chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and stalwart champion of liberal economic and social policy is set to retire after more than 40 momentous years in Congress. But instead of celebrating, Obey is locked in a bruising and highly personal budget battle \u2013 not with his Republican adversaries, but with Democratic President Obama and a prominent cabinet member.<br \/>\nIn the greater scheme of things, the spending controversy is \u201csmall potatoes,\u201d a \u201clousy little fight\u201d over an asterisk in a multitrillion-dollar annual budget, as Obey describes it. At issue is whether to trim $500 million from Obama\u2019s signature \u201cRace to the Top\u201d education initiative to help avert the threatened layoff of 140, 000 school teachers across the country. Obey believes the proposed trim of about 15 percent of funding for future programs is a small price for the administration to pay to keep teachers on the job now, amid a stubborn recession. But Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan are treating it as a potentially devastating assault on their new education program, and have threatened a veto.<\/I><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Pianin This summer is fast turning into a bittersweet swan song for David Obey, the veteran Democratic House member from Wisconsin. The mercurial chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and stalwart champion of liberal economic and social policy is set to retire after more than 40 momentous years in Congress. But instead of celebrating, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}