Senate Poised for Break Without Ukraine Aid Plan Action
By Kathleen Hunter Mar 13, 2014 2:00 PM ET
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid vowed to block House Republicans from using a Ukraine aid package to delay U.S. Internal Revenue Service rules governing political activity by some nonprofit groups.
“This has been floating around the Senate for a while,” Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said today. He added that it was hard for him to “comprehend how, with a clear conscience” Republicans would seek to link the IRS rule delay to the aid.
House Republicans are insisting that a one-year delay in the IRS rule be paired with changes in U.S. financing for the International Monetary Fund that Democrats are seeking, said a House Republican aide speaking on condition of anonymity.
New York Senator Charles Schumer, the chamber’s third-ranking Democrat, told reporters today that House Republican leaders made the demand directly to Senate leaders. A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner declined to comment publicly.
“I know for a fact that they talked to the leadership about it,” Schumer said. “This is so deleterious to our political system. There should not be a delay.”
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