House GOP Push to Reverse Course on Spending Strategy Fails

[DonViejo]

Source: Roll Call




Posted Jul 25, 2017 12:07 PM
Lindsey McPherson
@Lindsey McPherson

House GOP appropriators’ and other rank-and-file members’ last-minute push to vote on a full 12-bill spending package before the August recess has failed to garner enough support for leadership to reverse course.

The now twice-made decision to proceed with a four-bill minibus package of national security-related appropriations bills instead of a 12-bill omnibus is a blow to those in the Republican Conference who saw pursuing a 12-bill strategy a win.

But leadership told the conference Tuesday there are not the votes to pass a 12-bill omnibus — not even close enough to bring it the floor and hope that it might pass — but if that changes they would consider scheduling a vote on it, according to a source in the room. “We have consensus for these four bills,” Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Tuesday after the conference meeting. “We do not yet have consensus on the other eight bills.”

Former House Appropriations Chairman Harold Rogers said he’s disappointed the House will not proceed with the omnibus this week, noting he believes the votes would have been there if they did.

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[BumRushDaShow]

1. The only bills they care about

are the Defense and Homeland Security, and to hell with the rest because "the rest" are become so divisive with the demands for draconian cuts that it's guaranteed that there will need to be some sort of CR at the end of September as they haggle through it.

I only recall once in the past 30+ years where Congress actually passed 12 separate appropriations bills before September 30 and I think that was actually under Clinton. The rest were omnibuses, extended CRs, or a mix of a couple separate appropriations bills plus an omnibus.