Posted on 12/11/2014 3:14:54 PM PST by cotton1706
House Republican leaders and the Obama White House formed an unlikely alliance late Thursday as they scrambled to secure the votes for a $1.1 trillion spending bill, ahead of a midnight deadline.
Fox News is told that President Obama and Vice President Biden were calling House Democrats appealing for their support. Meanwhile, House GOP leaders were trying to sway conservative members who, for different reasons, were opposed to the package.
Unclear is whether the push can produce a bipartisan majority to approve the package.
Earlier in the day, the bill narrowly cleared an important procedural hurdle, on a 214-212 test vote. But the tight vote, which almost failed, exposed serious problems -- all Democrats voted against it, while 16 Republicans defected.
GOP leaders then delayed a final vote, signaling they did not yet have enough support lined up to pass the legislation. A spending bill of some kind is needed to avert a government shutdown after the midnight deadline. A senior House GOP source told Fox News it is "very close."
Many conservatives continue to oppose the bill because it does not attack Obama's immigration executive actions, while liberal Democrats are angry over provisions dealing with campaign spending and financial regulation.
If House Speaker John Boehner loses more than 17 Republicans, he needs to turn to Democrats and it's unclear whether any would support the bill.
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What the EXEMPT really want.
More EXEMPTIONs.
More power.
More Pensions.
More corruption.
More control.
More kickbacks.
More attacks on conservatives and the US Constitution.
Kill the bill!!
Very very politically dangerous.
Obviously they plan on us forgetting about it by the next election, and voting for the 'lesser of two evils' once again.
There are no GOP “leaders”...there are “traitors”.
Shut it down till January.
IF?
Theatrics, everyone’s unwrapping their pork belly’s...
Best outcome could be a shut down.
The GOP needs to understand that a shutdown will not lose the base.
Surrender to Obama and they will lose it all.
Rand Paul On Shutdown: "Even Though It Appeared I Was Participating In It, It Was A Dumb Idea"I said throughout the whole battle that shutting down the government was a dumb idea. Even though it did appear as if I was participating in it, I said it was a dumb idea. And the reason I voted for it, though, is that it's a conundrum. Here's the conundrum. We have a $17 trillion debt and people at home tell me you can't give the president a blank check. We just can't keep raising the debt ceiling without conditions. So unconditionally raising the debt ceiling, nobody at home wants me to vote for that and I can't vote for that. But the conundrum is if I don't we do approach these deadlines. So there is an impasse. In 2011, though, we had this impasse and the president did negotiate. We got the sequester. If we were to extend the sequester from discretionary spending to all the entitlements we would actually fix our problem within a few years.[Posted on 11/19/2013 12:16:51 PM by Third Person]
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