[Repeal The 17th]

“...Start passing the budget piece by piece.
First, fund Social Security.
Then Medicare.
Then Department of Defense...”
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And then the House bill would go to the senate,
where Reid would hold a vote on cloture, and get it.

Then he would add an amendment to include funding for everything else,
and get his 51 votes to pass the amended bill,
and send it back to the House.

If the House would not accept the amended bill from the senate,
the House would get blamed for not being willing to negotiate,
and therefore shutting down the government.

Just like the senate did with the first continuing resolution,
and now with the second continuing resolution.

The senate mafia can do this over and over again.

[Political Junkie Too]

Boehner could argue that it's unconstitutional for the Senate to do that. Spending must originate in the House. Reid cannot add amendments to fund.

It was a different matter to remove an amendment that positively defunded something. It's another matter to add an amendment to fund something.

-PJ