Posted on 12/11/2014 11:53:14 AM PST by Servant of the Cross
Updated 2:30 p.m. | Unsure whether they have the votes to pass a trillion-dollar federal spending package, House GOP leaders on Thursday afternoon delayed a final vote on the “cromnibus.”
They did so with mere hours to go until the government is set to run out of funding, and just before the House was scheduled to vote.
GOP leaders called a recess to floor proceedings, with a GOP leadership aide confirming “no conference meeting [is] planned at this time.” The aide said “leadership teams are still talking to their respective members,” and noted, “We still plan to vote this afternoon.”
It’s not clear, however, what they will be voting on.
If Republicans can’t surmont the impasse, they could decide to proceed with swiftly moving a short-term continuing resolution through the chamber, which the Senate could also pass before 11:59 p.m., when current funding expires.
In doing so, they would be throwing away months of hard-fought negotiations between appropriators and dashing dreams of a return to regular order when the GOP takes control of all of Capitol Hill in the new year.
But House GOP leadership may have few other options. After barely winning a procedural vote to bring the spending bill to the floor for full debate and consideration, they realized they were in peril of not having enough votes for passage. Too many Republicans were prepared to vote “no” because the Feb. 27 sunset date for Department of Homeland Security funding was not enough to pacify concerns the cromnibus contained no language to explicitly bar President Barack Obama from implementing his immigration executive orders.
Hopes that Democrats would be able to make up for the short-fall have also dimmed as the minority party fought back “poison-pill” policy riders rolling back the financial regulatory overhaul laws from the Dodd-Frank Act and loosening some campaign finance rules.
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., defied the White House’s call to pass the cromnibus during a scathing floor speech, in which she said she was “enormously disappointed” with the administration. Republican aides told CQ Roll Call that part of the reason for the recess was to give Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer a chance to whip votes on the Democratic side. A Hoyer aide denied this was the cause, saying House Democratic leadership is not whipping votes one way or another.
House Democratic sources said the White House might be making the rounds to members to find some support.
No better illustration that this piece of crap needs to be scrapped.
It’s all part of the plan to let Nancy Boehner allow the Democrats to add another 1600 pages to the Bill
DEFEAT THE BILL!
202-224-3121
Burn up the House phone lines now!
Glad to see Boehner is pushing a spending bill even the WH supports. /s
No CRomnibus, no problem.
Just allow a government slowdown [slow down to 83% of normal.]
Or, give a short term CR until after the new Congress arrives.
Easy peasy.
The theatrical lengths they go to in order to create self worth and auto-erotic fantasies is not noteworthy anymore.
GTFO and let it burn. /r
/johnny
BUMP
If Congress shuts down for the holidays, why not let the rest of government shut down? It would be very nice if they just passed a bill to keep government parks and monuments opened over the holidays.
” Burn up the House phone lines now!”
This is all we can do.
/johnny
That Whip better start crackin’ ...
I think the reason for the legislators are walking on eggs is because if the government "slows down", it gives Obama the justification to begin using the executive orders for the good of the country. The Republicans want to wait until they have control of both houses to face that battle.
This is a political battle and Obama has the media on his side. Of Course the left wants to have the battle now.
I’m curious if this bill was intended to not pass because of the conservatives so they could only get a CR until March done. No one person gets the blame. Only the TEA party does.
Theater.
Melt the lines and remind them who they work for. It ain’t Pelosi.
Pray America is waking
Boehner is as dangerous as Obama.
They could pass a clean CR for 3 months and give themselves reasonable time to complete a thoughtful budget that everyone could read.
Something needs stop him. Hard.
The bill is a barge loaded with garbage. Time to sink it.
I called my rep.
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