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House GOP may attach Obamacare delay to CR
POLITICO.com ^ | 09/24/13 | Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan

Posted on 09/24/2013 9:01:09 PM PDT by oxcart

The House Republican leadership is seriously considering attaching a one-year delay of Obamacare’s individual mandate to the Senate bill to avert a government shutdown, according to senior GOP aides.

If House Republicans decide to go this route, it would all but provoke a government shutdown, since Senate Democrats might not even schedule a vote on a bill that includes that provision, Senate leadership staffers say. Even if the Senate schedules a vote, there might not be time to move the legislation through the slow-moving chamber.

The House Republican leadership is planning its next move as it becomes abundantly clear that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s gambit to defund Obamacare will fall short. The federal government is set to shut down Tuesday unless a new funding bill is enacted, and the Senate might not even send a bill to the House until Sunday — leaving a hot potato on Speaker John Boehner’s lap shortly before a government shutdown. The Senate bill will fund the government through Nov. 15.

(Excerpt) Read more at dyn.politico.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: healthcare; obamacare
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To: VerySadAmerican
I think it’s simply to destroy the U.S. Single payer won’t’ work if there are no payers.

If you meant "simple" then that would be accurate.

21 posted on 09/25/2013 12:07:57 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Islam offers choices: convert, submit, or die.)
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To: Carry_Okie

I’ll believe it when I see it. ;o)


22 posted on 09/25/2013 12:13:14 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 (To the GOPe ~ I'm now a proud member of the Wacko Bird party. CRUZ!!!)
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To: oxcart

This was the plan all along. Told you.

The GOP is lucky to get anything at all, since it only controls the house. Elections have consequences.


23 posted on 09/25/2013 12:17:20 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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To: dixiechick2000
I’ll believe it when I see it. ;o)

Then help make it happen. A defeatist attitude is unaffordable.

24 posted on 09/25/2013 12:20:32 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Islam offers choices: convert, submit, or die.)
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To: Sideshow Bob

I agree. Constant delay...until permanent repeal.


25 posted on 09/25/2013 12:27:56 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Carry_Okie

I’m doing what I can, but it will be tough to unseat him.

Just keeping it real...


26 posted on 09/25/2013 12:28:10 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 (To the GOPe ~ I'm now a proud member of the Wacko Bird party. CRUZ!!!)
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To: Carry_Okie

That’s two sentences.

I think it’s (obamacare) simply to destroy the U.S.

Single payer won’t work if there are no payers.


27 posted on 09/25/2013 12:28:51 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: oxcart

More fakery and posturing from the RINO leadership.


28 posted on 09/25/2013 1:04:26 AM PDT by Nextrush (BALANCED BUDGET NOW, PRESIDENT SARAH PALIN,CHANGE I BELIEVE IN)
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To: Carry_Okie
No delay. Let America feel the pain, let them see the chaos and stupidity, and they’ll remember who did it in 2014.

Doubtful.

29 posted on 09/25/2013 2:55:46 AM PDT by mcmuffin (Freedom's On The March - Wave Goodbye!)
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To: oxcart

Pretty much everything coming out of Politico has at least some Rat propaganda.


30 posted on 09/25/2013 3:31:59 AM PDT by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: Gene Eric

McConnell is on short time. His days in the Senate are just about over.


31 posted on 09/25/2013 3:45:44 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: dixiechick2000

Didn’t Boehner already announce that he is stepping down after the elections next year?


32 posted on 09/25/2013 4:01:23 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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To: Carry_Okie
No delay. Let America feel the pain, let them see the chaos and stupidity, and they’ll remember who did it in 2014.

Yes! This is very important. If Obamacare is going to happen, it should happen as soon as possible.

33 posted on 09/25/2013 4:17:58 AM PDT by justlurking (tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)
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To: mcmuffin
Doubtful.

They'll see it with every paycheck, if there is one.

34 posted on 09/25/2013 5:26:20 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Islam offers choices: convert, submit, or die.)
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To: GraceG

Which GOP senators were opposing their staffers from being exempted?


35 posted on 09/25/2013 6:16:20 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: stars & stripes forever

wouldn’t it be nice if the establishment put as much effort into going after the left as it does going after it’s base conservatives


36 posted on 09/25/2013 6:41:57 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: oxcart
One should probably not be especially surprised that the left-leaning Politico would interpret this as the Republicans "provok[ing] a government shutdown"...
37 posted on 09/25/2013 7:57:29 AM PDT by AmericanExceptionalist (Democrats believe in discussing the full spectrum of ideas, all the way from far left to center-left)
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To: oxcart

A delay to after the 2014 elections is what the dimoKKRATS want. Either get rid of it or let it be with no delay.


38 posted on 09/25/2013 9:45:57 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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