Bill to avoid government shutdown moves in Congress

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican leaders in the U.S. Congress on Thursday began advancing bills urgently needed to avoid federal agency shutdowns on Oct. 1 while navigating conservatives' demands to punish Planned Parenthood over an abortion controversy.

The Senate defeated Republican efforts to use a funding extension bill to cut off money to Planned Parenthood, clearing the way for a version without that provision that extends all previous funding through Dec. 11.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has set the first procedural vote on that measure for Monday, two days before the federal fiscal year ends on Sept. 30.

House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, meanwhile, laid out similar options in a closed-door meeting with Republican conservatives, who oppose any spending bill allowing federal funds to go to Planned Parenthood amid allegations that it improperly sold tissue harvested from aborted fetuses.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-threatens-veto-budget-bill-defunding-planned-165905855--sector.html

[sakabatou]

1. Why is it so fucking hard for them to do a clean bill?

[MiniMe]

2. Now...can it pass the house?

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Yes

If all Democrats (188) vote for it, then they just need 30 GOP votes to get the total to 218 for passage. All the kabuki theater that goes on in the House is due to the artificially-imposed "restriction" that the GOP puts on themselves to apply the "Hastert Rule" (meaning any legislation that gets passed must do so with a majority of their party's vote - all in honor of a man currently under indictment and out on bail while his pre-trial proceedings proceed).

Otherwise (as the stupid media will then reluctantly write), Boehner will need the support of Democrats for passage. Um duh.

[Gore1FL]

3. Funding the government is not a bargaining chip

Fuck them.

[davidpdx]

4. +1

If they can't do their job, they don't get paid.

[Action_Patrol]

6. Unfortunately

They still get their checks if it shuts down. All other government employees don't.

[Kablooie]

7. It's a great bargaining chip.

It hurts everyone except the Republicans.
All the talk last time about it damaging the Republicans came to nothing.
The only people hurt were the American people and federal workers.

It's like the Mafia bargaining chip of breaking your legs.

[Darb]

8. Agreed, and make no mistake,

this has nothing to do with abortion. That is just the excuse du jour. It has to do with rat-fucking the economy in any way they can in an attempt to blame Obama for a bad economy and to attempt to make him fail at everything.

Do not be fooled, they want the black man to fail. Period.

Same reason for rat-fucking of the highway bill.

They are traitors, Confederates. Racists. They should be held to account.