Posted on 09/27/2013 5:12:03 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
House Republican leaders are stuck with a tough choice after Senate Democrats succeeded in passing a "clean" budget bill which, contrary to GOP wishes, includes full funding for ObamaCare.
The Senate, capping a dramatic week on Capitol Hill, approved the bill on Friday, after Democrats stripped a Republican-backed provision to defund the health law. The final vote was 54-44.
The bill now returns to the House, and is seen by some lawmakers as a sort of legislative hot potato. If the two chambers cannot agree on a final bill by midnight on Monday, then the government will shut down. Neither side wants to be left holding the bill if that happens.
House Speaker John Boehner could, theoretically, just call up the Senate-passed bill and rely on mostly Democrats to pass it. But House Republicans are under heavy pressure, now, from fellow conservatives to stand by their demand that ObamaCare be defunded, or least delayed.
"I don't know of anyone who wants to shut down the government. The only thing we want to shut down is ObamaCare," Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who staged an unsuccessful effort to stall the bill in the Senate, predicted the House would restore anti-ObamaCare provisions -- and urged Senate Republicans to unite with them. "Today, far too many Republicans joined Harry Reid in giving the Democrats the ability to fund ObamaCare," he said.
Boehner signaled he will not accept the Senate-passed bill in its current form.
"The House will take action that reflects the fundamental fact that Americans don't want a government shutdown and they don't want the train wreck that is ObamaCare," spokesman Brendan Buck said in a statement.
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Jim, did you Email your opening statement to Boehner?
The rinos need to shut it and allow this work itself out.
“...The duty and honor is on the House to save the Republic...”
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Most excellent post, BUMP!
Ted Cruz and other loyal senators did not have the power to stop Harry Reid.
They knew that, but they did not just roll over and play dead.
John Boehner and the House have the power stop the whole damn thing.
They know that, but ... what will they do?
Freepers - if you are putting your faith in Boehner doing the right thing then you really should expect to be disappointed. The Speaker’s entire history suggests he will cave and shed a few tears in the process
[The House and the House alone has the awesome constitutional power and duty to deny this illegal expansion and destruction of the constitution by simply denying funding for the President’s runaway, nation-wrecking expansionist program. If the House does not vote to fund it, it cannot be funded. And there’s nothing the Senate or the President or the SCOTUS or the godless liberal media can do about it.]
Well said. And if the evil monster uses executive orders to continue this monster, than it is time to impeach this man, as should have been done already.
This is a hill to fight and die on.
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