Posted on 09/10/2014 7:34:15 AM PDT by cotton1706
Sen. Ted Cruz again met with a small group of House Republicans late Tuesday night, this time to discuss over pizza a conservative strategy on the continuing resolution.
While many of the Cruz meetings have seemed to lack a specific agenda or resolution, members trickled out of Tuesday’s nearly two-hour meeting repeating a similar refrain: We want a new expiration date on the CR.
Earlier in the evening, the House GOP leadership unveiled a bill to keep the government funded through Dec. 11. And the early review from conservatives attending Cruz’s meeting in the Texas Republican’s office was that Dec. 11 is too soon.
Instead, members came out of the meeting saying they wanted the CR to fund the government through March 1.
Pushing the next big spending showdown into March, members of the ‘Cruz Caucus’ said, would give the new 114th Congress, which could include a Republican-controlled Senate, an opportunity to tackle government funding.
A Dec. 11 expiration means Congress will still have to address an omnibus spending package in the lame duck, when, regardless of the election results, Harry Reid of Nevada will still be Senate majority leader.
Another issue members discussed at length was the Export-Import Bank. While many of the members voiced opposition to the credit agency, some said they understood the strategy of eventually decoupling Ex-Im from a spending bill, which the proposed CR does by extending the bank to June 30.
Even Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert said the June 30 date “may be a good thing.”
Other lawmakers were reluctant to see the bank, which has been criticized by fiscal hawks as little more than corporate welfare, get a new nine-month-long lifeline.
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NO LAME DUCK SESSION!!!
Cruz is acting like a stealth Speaker of the House..I don’t know if he can win the GOP WH nomination..maybe the next House should elect him Speaker.
Thats very thoughtful of Cruz to take some of the load off of Boehner - now he’s got more time for golf with Obama.
In addition to being a sound constitutional conservative TED CRUZ IS ALSO A SUPERB STRATEGIST & AN EFFECTIVE LEADER.
I love this guy.
He’s the only one who’s throwing a wrench into Boehner and McConnell’s plans (which also happen to be Reid and Obama’s plans).
Spot on.
LOL…when does Sen. Cruz sleep? He’s got something going every day, in an attempt to thwart Obama and Reid. What is your GOP senator doing???
Exactly!
Ted Cruz, the conservative people’s Senator, continuing to lead the House via secret pizza meetings. Boehner and McConnell must have nightmares about him every day. Good.
*Ping* Thought you might be interested in this, given your recent theory about Gov’t Shutdown II- Electric Boogaloo.
Sometimes those who work behind the scenes are far more effective then media front page news.
I’ll be in Cruz’z court ‘wherever’ that may play out!
Keep the good fight, Ted!
We really haven't a great deal of time, Ted. We need a :
We should have a majority in both Houses for 2015-2016. What is gong to happen?
This should be the biggest thing since the bloody REFORMATION .... and we got no "theology."
In TN our two are busy kissing Dems butts.
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