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My sources tell me House Republicans have postponed tonight’s vote on their plan to end the fiscal impasse. “The votes aren’t there,” says a leadership aide. “We’ve been amending the bill all day, but we’ve been unable to get people around this strategy.” This development leaves Speaker John Boehner with few options as Thursday’s debt-ceiling deadline nears, and it throws the action back toward the Senate, which has been working on a bipartisan package.

... First, here are the comments in question: It is not the truth to suggest that there are not enough voters, members of Congress, that would vote right now today to open this government. It’s something called a continuing resolution, but it’s a bill that you put on the floor that has been passed already by Republicans and Democrats in the United States Senate. This is not an idea of anyone over another person. Republican and Democratic Senators have already voted for this clean bill that we can vote on today.We have martial law. What that means and my colleagues know...

As the government shutdown entered its 12th day, the best lawmakers on Capitol Hill could say on Saturday is that they’ve started talking — again..... ....Mr. Reid has rejected every request Republicans have made, including most recently a proposal circulated by Sen. Susan Collins, Maine Republican, that would have repealed a despised Obamacare tax and given the White House more flexibility to manage the sequesters, in return for opening up the government and passing a debt increase........ House Republicans and the White House had both said they were making progress over the previous two days, saying that they had cleared...

House Republican leaders on Saturday pulled one of their "mini" spending resolutions from the floor after dozens of Democrats tried to use the debate to call up the Senate's continuing resolution to re-open the government. Members were debating the American Indian and Alaska Native, Health, Education, and Safety Act, H.J.Res. 80, the 15th "mini" appropriations bill GOP leaders have called up. But in the midst of the debate, several Democrats lined up to make unanimous consent requests to call up the Senate's broad continuing resolution. Republicans repeated that it is not in order to call up the Senate resolution because...

On NRO there are stirrings about how the day has begun on the Hill. ___________ Jonathan Strong ‏@j_strong 3m Leadership's tough words on Senate Rs contradicts assumption by many in Capitol that when McConnell jams Boehner, it's done w tacit approval Jonathan Strong ‏@j_strong 6m Cantor to House Rs in meeting: "We need Senate Republicans to stand up and stand firm." Jonathan Strong ‏@j_strong 11m Boehner told Rs Obama has agreed to nothing. Said everything depends on Senate Rs holding firm Jonathan Strong ‏@j_strong 21m Big question for Boehner, House Rs this am: How do you deal with Senate Rs...

The House will vote as soon as Tuesday on forming a special committee of House and Senate members to work out a deal on reopening the government and raising the nation’s $16.7 trillion debt ceiling, multiple GOP sources told The Hill. The move is an attempt to highlight what the GOP sees as a refusal by Democrats to compromise in order to end the budget crisis. It also echoes the creation of a debt supercommittee to resolve the last debt ceiling impasse in 2011. Lawmakers will separately vote on legislation to pay essential federal personnel, including those working right now...

Throughout the past week, Democrats leaders have justified their refusal to negotiate with Republicans as a natural response to hostage taking. They claim that the fight over Obamacare is extraneous to the budget, and as such, they should not have to talk to Republicans until they agree to pass a “clean” CR. There are two points they are obfuscating in the context of the budget battle. 1) Obamacare was passed through budget reconciliation. So when they felt it was convenient for them to inject Obamacare into the budget process; namely, for the purpose of avoiding the 60-vote threshold, they were...

The difference is dramatic – it all depends upon the ground you're standing on. The founders had it right. Their biggest problem was taxation, and who and how it could be done. So that put that authority solely in the hands of the House of Representative. Because the house had to face the people every two years and reflected a balanced view of the population, they would be the best barometer of the people’s current feelings. And – hundreds of years later – they still are. So when the Republicans in the house say, “no”, there’s no need to shoot....

Fifty-seven House Democrats have broken ranks with Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer to vote with Republicans to fund parts of the government like veterans programs, national parks and the National Institutes of Health. Sixteen of those Democrats voted for all six targeted appropriations bills, introduced at the behest of House Speaker John Boehner, including measures to fund the National Guard and Reserve, NIH, national parks, the District of Columbia and two separate votes for veterans programs. (The House of Representatives voted twice to restore funding for veterans programs, once Oct. 1 and a second time Oct....

The debt ceiling should really be renamed the default ceiling. This catastrophic game of chicken cost the U.S. our AAA credit rating and $19 billion when it was last employed in the summer of 2011 by House radicals who pretended their intransigence was a stand for fiscal responsibility. Now the default ceiling is looming again, promising yet another showdown between President Obama and House Republicans. But even Speaker John Boehner realizes that the 50 or so radicals on the far right of his own party—the Bachmann, Broun, Gohmert and King crew—are the greatest impediment to responsible self-government right now. That’s...

Dear friends and neighbors in central Oklahoma, At midnight yesterday, the federal government officially slowed down when Fiscal Year 2014 began. Today, most federal offices were still open, but they had reduced staff levels. Twenty-four hours ago, the House passed a formal request to the Senate to select lead negotiators,so we could meet to work out a compromise. The House selected our negotiators, set aside a room to meet,and waited for the Senate. Unfortunately, two minutes after opening their legislative day, the Senate voted to “table” the House measure and refused to meet with the House today.It is frustrating when...

I just took the time to call Blaine Luetkemeyer, my House Rep, to thank him (and his cohorts) for having a spine, and to continue to offer funding options devoid of obamacare. They can stop it by not funding it. Make the perpetual cry baby in the white house not get his way.

As the clock wound toward a government shutdown late Monday night, U.S. Rep. John Larson took to the House floor. In a passionate screed, a red-faced Larson implored his fellow members to engage in talks to avoid a shutdown.

The House Republicans have grown a spine, and taken a principled stand against this economy-wrecking Obamanation (Which I compare to the Enabling Act of Nazi Germany). Now it up to US to make sure that we support them, even louder than we do when they do something we don't like. Right now, on CNN, they are running a live "Government Shutdown Clock", calling the Republican position "Stupid", and "Silly", while running Democrat quote, after Democrat quote. These people are going to BOMBARDED by a huge wave of liberal/leftist hate starting immediately. The endless media sob stories have already begun, being...

Immigration overhaul legislation has been dormant in the House for months, but a few Republicans are working behind the scenes to advance it at a time the Capitol is immersed in a partisan brawl over government spending and President Barack Obama's health care law.

According to Special Report, a cadre of Quislings in the House are planning a revolt against not only the conservative majority, but the leadership as well. No doubt led by Peter King who recently insinuated he was not going to continue playing 'Cruz' game', this group will vote with the rats to block our next volley to the senate, the hardest one yet for them to reject. We cannot allow this. If you are a Freeper and think your rep might be involved in this treachery, melt the phone lines and fill the inboxes. No insurrection can be afforded at...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address a few pool reporters in the White House Oval Office after meeting with President Barack Obama on Monday — consistent with Netanyahu’s past visits to the White House, but not consistent with the visits of several other world leaders who held full-blown joint press conferences with Obama in front of the entire White House press corps. The White House schedule for Monday does not specify whether the two leaders – who have sometimes been at odds – will take questions from the foreign and domestic press. Considering Israel’s status as a major ally...

Calling for an end to the status quo in Washington, an Amarillo businesswoman officially kicked off her bid Tuesday to unseat U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry. Elaine Hays, 55, made the announcement Tuesday that she’s seeking the Republican nomination for Thornberry’s seat before a group of about 100 enthusiastic supporters — including District 15 State Board of Education Representative Marty Rowley — at the Ambassador Hotel. “It’s time to remind Washington that they work for us,” she told the cheering crowd. The mother of four, author and certified financial planner said trust in the nation’s government has plummeted amid continued Washington...

New York Democratic Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney of the 18th District tells WAMC that his vanquished November opponent, Republican ex-Congresswoman Nan Hayworth, may be gearing up for another run.

The White House on Saturday said President Obama would veto the House GOP's latest stopgap spending measure. It said Obama would veto the bill because of the inclusion of language delaying ObamaCare and eliminating a medical device tax, while faulting the House for not moving a simple funding measure approved by the Senate on Friday. "Rather than taking up that legislation, the House proposes amendments that advance a narrow ideological agenda and threaten the nation’s economy," the White House budget office said in a statement. "By including extraneous measures that have no place in a government funding bill and that...