Reid: Obama Will Call House Back From Recess If Necessary Over Shutdown Fight (TPM)

[chill_wind]

"Reid Schedules Key Gov’t Funding Vote For Monday Afternoon"
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Reid: Obama Will Call House Back From Recess If Necessary Over Shutdown Fight
Brian Beutler | September 23, 2011


Harry Reid has an offer for John Boehner and Senate Republicans to keep FEMA's disaster relief efforts funded and avoid a government shutdown. It goes like this: Democrats will accept the House GOP's lower funding total disaster aid, if Republicans drop the extraordinary demand that funding recovery from natural disasters be offset with partisan budget cuts.

Republicans now say the only way to keep the entire government funded after September 30 is if Democrats agree to slash a successful manufacturing program to pay for disaster aid included in the House's federal funding bill.

Speaking for his caucus at a Friday press conference, Reid categorically rejected the idea disaster aid should be offset. After the Senate rejected that proposal on a bipartisan basis, Reid urged Boehner to sit down with himself, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to review his offer, in the hope of avoiding a government shutdown. And he said if House Republicans continue intransigently to demand that the Senate swallow their bill, President Obama will call the House back into session from its week-long recess.

"The President of course will do that if necessary, and I don't think that will be necessary," Reid said in response to TPM's question. "I would have to think that the vote Monday -- that all eyes will be upon them, including the Speaker's and Leader Cantor.... They were trolling for votes for maybe more than 24 hours, to try to get enough votes to satisfy the Tea Party."

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TPM notes they have a request in to WH for comment and they'll post if or when they get a response.

[mfcorey1]

1. Please, Mr President, they are trying to slow your push for jobs and distract you from that

mission. Let them figure out their own mess. They want you in the middle capitulating. Don't do it.