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House Set to Pass Spending Bill That Cuts Health Funds
Source: New York Times
House Set to Pass Spending Bill That Cuts Health Funds
By JONATHAN WEISMAN
Published: September 20, 2013
WASHINGTON — House Republicans moved Friday toward passing a stopgap spending bill that would strip all funding for President Obama’s health care law, setting up another bitter fiscal showdown just 10 days before much of the federal government is set to run out of money.
Even as the House muscled forward its spending bill, House Republican leaders met behind closed doors with their rank and file on Friday to lay out the next step in the budget battle: a bill that would raise the government’s statutory borrowing limit, delay implementation of the health care law for a year, and push a grab-bag of Republican initiatives, from binding instructions to overhaul the tax code to mandatory construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
All of the measures tied to the debt-ceiling increase have passed the Republican-controlled House before, only to be ignored by the Senate. But this time, said Representative John Fleming, Republican of Louisiana, “we haven’t applied it to a must-pass piece of legislation.”
The two bills — to finance the government through Dec. 15 and raise the debt ceiling — were intended to unite House Republicans and placate an emboldened right wing of the party.
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By JONATHAN WEISMAN
Published: September 20, 2013
WASHINGTON — House Republicans moved Friday toward passing a stopgap spending bill that would strip all funding for President Obama’s health care law, setting up another bitter fiscal showdown just 10 days before much of the federal government is set to run out of money.
Even as the House muscled forward its spending bill, House Republican leaders met behind closed doors with their rank and file on Friday to lay out the next step in the budget battle: a bill that would raise the government’s statutory borrowing limit, delay implementation of the health care law for a year, and push a grab-bag of Republican initiatives, from binding instructions to overhaul the tax code to mandatory construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
All of the measures tied to the debt-ceiling increase have passed the Republican-controlled House before, only to be ignored by the Senate. But this time, said Representative John Fleming, Republican of Louisiana, “we haven’t applied it to a must-pass piece of legislation.”
The two bills — to finance the government through Dec. 15 and raise the debt ceiling — were intended to unite House Republicans and placate an emboldened right wing of the party.
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Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/21/us/politics/house-spending-bill.html
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