Posted on 10/15/2013 1:49:40 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
House Republican leaders are preparing legislation that would fund the government until Dec. 15, extend the debt ceiling until Feb. 7 and strike the health care subsidies that members of Congress, White House appointees and staff were set to receive under the new health care law, a GOP lawmaker said.
Under the new House GOP proposal — the second one they proposed Tuesday — union workers would also remain subject to a $63 health insurance tax from which they had sought an exemption.
The proposal also would give the House and Senate until mid-December negotiate a new, long-term budget.
"The goal here for all Republicans is we want to get to this budget committee," Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., told reporters as he left a GOP leadership meeting. "We'd like to give the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Committee the chance to get some big, broad based agreements for entitlement reform and tax reform."
The House bill is a variation of the first proposal GOP leaders pitched to their rank and file earlier Tuesday, but which seemed to lack broad Republican support.
The old GOP plan, which funded the government at $986 billion, also attracted Democratic objections over a provision limiting the administration from moving funding around between departments and a second provision that would prevent the Treasury Secretary from shuffling around money to extend the borrowing limit past Feb. 7.
Nunes said both provisions remain in the House plan, but that the limits on the administration's spending flexibility would be temporary.
A special House committee designated to write the rules for floor debate is expected to meet shortly to decide what amendments, if any would be allowed on the proposal.
House GOP leaders have been huddled for hours in the offices of House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, trying to hash out a plan that would be able to win 218 Republicans. They rejected a proposal by one of the leaders of the conservative wing, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, that would have extended the debt ceiling only to Jan. 7.
Jordan left the meeting declining comment.
The Senate, meanwhile, has halted talks on their own debt ceiling and government funding proposal. A House-passed bill, under parliamentary rules, would allow the Senate to act faster and perhaps beat the Oct. 17 deadline set by Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to raise the borrowing limit.
Republicans said the bipartisan Senate plan stalled after much progress Monday night after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid began asking for additional concessions from the GOP, though no lawmaker would provide specifics.
The House proposal strips out much of the language Republicans had sought to limit the new health care law. According to Nunes, a requirement for income verification for those receiving health insurance subsidies was also removed.
Instead, Nunes said, the language crafted by Sen. David Vitter, R-La., that would equalize the health care law for congressional and White House employees was added. The Vitter Amendment, as it is known, strips out the 72-percent government subsidy that pays for White House and Congressional employee health insurance policies.
It’s the same thing they would do with immigration law reform if we let them: kick the problem down the road to our kids.
The Democrats have the excuse of being Democrats, but it’s chickenhearted of the GOP to play this `CR’ (cowardly resolution) game.
Bookmarked. Will post something every day on FB to refresh people’s memories.
Put me in the “no deal” is better than a “bad deal” category.
No VOTE NO VOTE. The tea party PREVAILS!!! Either quit DICTATING or you shut her down obama and Reid!!!
Looks like no vote today. Boner doesn’t have enough.
Thanks Cincinatus’ Wife.
Whispers: Might the House GOP Adjourn and Leave Town After Passing ‘Final Offer’?
townhall.com | 10/15/13 | Guy Benson
Posted on 10/15/2013 11:31:30 AM PDT by cotton1706
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3079255/posts
House GOP to try to counter Senate debt limit plan
yahoo.news | Oct 15, 2013 2 minutes ago | ANDREW TAYLOR
Posted on 10/15/2013 7:16:04 AM PDT by 11th_VA
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3079149/posts
I asked my boss for a raise. He said the money wasn’t there. So I guess I make do I what I get (like I always do). My bills get paid. I get my beanee weenees. But I don’t get that celebratory dinner because I got a raise. AND THERE IS NO DEFAULT!!!!
Agreed. We need to convince people to quit trying to salvage the GOP, which is just a branch of the DNC, and move forward and push for real conservatives who actually want to help the USA.
Nonsense. They’ve moved the ball forward. What were you expecting them to accomplish?
I expect the House to take charge and do their duty as specified in the Constitution! Is that too much to ask?
That is contrary to what the President expects and what the Senate expects! The House is elected to perform their duties of initiating all economic (tax bills) bills and should do their job. That means defying the President and the Senate if necessary! They are suppose to be the voice of the people and lord knows that they have failed miserably lately!
Bookmark for later.
Heh, It is surprising that more folks show up to defend this show than the Constitution. Probably something in that... I’d guess that democracy is a lost cause at this point.
(But your point remains the same, despite the semantics.)
We need to convince people to quit trying to salvage the GOP
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At the risk of stating the obvious, the culture of the GOP is not, and never will be, geared toward winning anything or taking a principled stand. It is more like a social club than a serious political party IMO.
I think I see Captain Obvious on the horizon! :)
Excellent reply! I though I was at least two hundred years in the past and the feeling was so good! Damn that I have to wake up again.
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