House GOP has new plan; vote could be Tuesday
Source: Washington Post
House Republicans are regrouping around a new version of their bill to reopen the government and raise the federal debt limit, with a vote by the full House expected as soon as Tuesday night.
The measure would raise the debt limit through Feb. 7, as in the original proposal. But it would fund federal agencies only through Dec. 15, creating the threat of another government shutdown just before Christmas if lawmakers fail to resolve a dispute over deep spending cuts known as the sequester.
Republicans decided to drop their bid to repeal a tax on medical devices that helps to fund President Obamas health-care law. But in addition to denying employer subsidies to lawmakers and members of the executive branch, conservatives insisted on denying those subsidies to their own congressional staffs as well.
Republicans also adjusted another proposal to make clear that the Treasury Department would be only temporarily barred from using extraordinary measures to juggle the books after the Feb. 7 deadline.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics-live/liveblog/live-updates-the-shutdown-8/#a09ae07a-4898-4ac7-95b4-cbd3160044ce
I'm becoming worried that the chaotic rush to get something done and the general anger that everyone feels is going to screw things up at the last minute.
Market is down 133 points.
Gothmog
(145,489 posts)This plan is bad and should be rejected
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Gothmog
(145,489 posts)The House Republicans were insisting on it at one point because it made the debt ceiling a better bargaining tool
Gothmog
(145,489 posts)According this post, the poison pill is still in the House Bill http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023856442
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)elleng
(131,075 posts)northoftheborder
(7,572 posts)Kablooie
(18,638 posts)What will be will be.
No use worrying as if you had control over it.
That being said, my stomach's kind of tense too.
tavernier
(12,396 posts)Makes it sound like they are doing US a favor by showing up and working.
durablend
(7,464 posts)Leave and don't come back (ever)
Blue Idaho
(5,054 posts)I bet they can't get the votes.
kardonb
(777 posts)is bonehead . He has painted himself into a small corner , and can't figure a way out for himself .
angrychair
(8,732 posts)Those " extraordinary measures " are what have keep the government since May, otherwise we would have already reached the debt ceiling. gOP are dumb asses.
Archae
(46,343 posts)Berlin Expat
(950 posts)Baldrick would actually be a better Speaker of the House than the human cheeto John Boehner.
Paulie
(8,462 posts)King_Klonopin
(1,306 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,355 posts)I can see that "elected reps must use ObamaCare" appeals to some voters; but I can't see that even teabaggers want the staff to have what they think is bad coverage. And surely it makes them looks worse to almost every voter - either giving their own staff a bum deal, by their lights, or pissing around with irrelevant matters when this is about the budget and debt limit.
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,258 posts)Don't you think the Federal Budget and your bedroom go together?
olddad56
(5,732 posts)They work for the Koch brothers. The Koch brothers goal is to destroy the federal government. The tea party pigs have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,167 posts)They've decided to postpone it. Time for the Senate to get back together.