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What Now? Budget bill heads to House after Senate restores ObamaCare $$
FOX News ^ | Sept 27, 2013

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: defund; federalist58; guncontrol; obama; obamacare; rinocare; secondamendment
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To: Jim Robinson

Excellent Jim.

Bump!


21 posted on 09/27/2013 5:35:51 PM PDT by upchuck (nobamacare must be stopped before it can live down to our expectations.)
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To: Jim Robinson
Excuse me, but Peter King is a suckass surrender monkey.

I concur.

On a different subject, why is O'Reilly obviously for Obamacare? I don't usually watch him, is he a lib?

22 posted on 09/27/2013 5:36:09 PM PDT by Kenny (<p>)
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To: gitmo

Yeah, they’re all confused on a whole lot of issues. The demonrats have batardized our entire system of government. However, as of this very moment, the constitution still rules and it is generally recognized that the house and the house alone holds the constitutional power to deny the purse.


23 posted on 09/27/2013 5:36:24 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Kenny

O’Reilly is generally a government man. He’ll opt for the path of least resistance every time. No fight in him whatsoever. Just a bloviator.


24 posted on 09/27/2013 5:38:23 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Paladin2

Are CRs even constitutional?


25 posted on 09/27/2013 5:39:05 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Impeach We Much!)
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To: rockrr

You are 100% correct.


26 posted on 09/27/2013 5:39:07 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Jim Robinson

shut it down.


27 posted on 09/27/2013 5:40:06 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: rfp1234

Well, Traitor Roberts would likely think so as it is the will of the people as expressed by their elected representatives.


28 posted on 09/27/2013 5:42:03 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: gitmo
Why is Fox calling this a budget bill?

Because they are idiots. I've seen the term "budget" used several places.

This is not a budget. The US hasn't had a budget in many years. This is a Continuing Resolution, or CR, that is meant to fund the gvt for a short period of time. And every time the CR is getting ready to expire we go through this big mess of funding this and trying to defund that. Ridiculous!

The dysfunctional morons in DC need to get their act together and have a budget like the rest of us.

29 posted on 09/27/2013 5:45:24 PM PDT by upchuck (nobamacare must be stopped before it can live down to our expectations.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Thank you. That comment came before I read the thread about dingy’s implicit threat (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3072156/posts).

Now it’s just a waiting game to see who blinks.


30 posted on 09/27/2013 5:45:27 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Jet Jaguar

That is an Excellent letter. I’m with Buchannon crowd, Boehnor should send it back piece by piece, a CR for the Pentagon, One for Medicare, One for SS, and so forth.


31 posted on 09/27/2013 5:49:26 PM PDT by swamprebel (a Constitution once changed from Freedom, can never be restored.)
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To: Jim Robinson
at this point, I don't even care anymore....let the rats eat their freaking cake.....

but then we'll have immigration for all forced on us....

consequences to electing rats, no matter how.......

32 posted on 09/27/2013 5:55:25 PM PDT by cherry (.)
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To: gitmo

Why is Fox calling it a “budget”? Because Obama called it a “budget”.


33 posted on 09/27/2013 6:06:19 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: rockrr

I couldn’t believe the white house reporter, Dana what’s her name, asked Reid why a government shutdown wouldn’t be his fault. The look on his face was priceless. He stammered a little then said something about counting caucuses.


34 posted on 09/27/2013 6:08:01 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: Jim Robinson

Senator Cruz: “ “Today, far too many Republicans joined Harry Reid in giving the Democrats the ability to fund ObamaCare,” he said.”

I’m sorry, but Senator Cruz is simply wrong on this. No matter what, the Democrats will always have the ability to reinsert Obamacare funding back into any bill the passes the senate. Senator Cruz’s method was going to force a shutdown. So was voting for cloture. Either path leads to either surrender by one party or the other, compromise, or shutdown.

BTW, I still think Republicans should have stood firm with Cruz on this regardless of whether they believed it would work or not. I personally didn’t think it would work, but once Cruz made his stand, the rest of the party should have backed his play. Had they done so, we’d be pretty much where we are now anyway—approaching an impasse and a shutdown—but we could have at least proved we were ready to stand together as one team on this.


35 posted on 09/27/2013 6:12:19 PM PDT by CitizenUSA (Why celebrate evil? Evil is easy. Good is the goal worth striving for.)
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To: upchuck

I see that my two NC senators betrayed the nation. One is a Rino, one a democRat. I will oppose both Senator Burr (R) & Senator Hagan (D,)


36 posted on 09/27/2013 6:13:01 PM PDT by gitmo ( If your theology doesn't become your biography it's useless.)
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To: Jim Robinson

I just read of your up coming surgery. I will hold you and yours in my prayers.

And reluctantly, Speaker Boehner also. May God grant him wisdom.


37 posted on 09/27/2013 6:13:35 PM PDT by Rushmore Rocks
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To: CitizenUSA
"Today, far too many Republicans GOPe RINOs and 'Rat wannabes (that's YOU Juan and Linda - go get a room) joined Harry Reid in giving the Democrats the ability to fund ObamaCare,”"

Improved. There's no fixing it now.

38 posted on 09/27/2013 6:18:08 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: CitizenUSA

And the house will always have the ability to reject the senate’s amendments. The House has the sole power to make appropriations (or deny them) per James Madison, Federalist 58. There’s absolutely nothing the senate can do about it other than make threats.

And this can play out all the way to Nov 2014 if necessary. The people know the truth and know who to vote out. And there is nothing more important to the preservation of the constitution and our Republic! All other business can wait.


39 posted on 09/27/2013 6:19:00 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: CitizenUSA

No matter what, the Democrats will always have the ability to shutdown the government to fund Obamacare.

And confidence that they won’t have to.

House should send back it’s bill funding the government. There’s only one way to deal with blackmailers.


40 posted on 09/27/2013 6:19:16 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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