Posted on 12/13/2011 9:15:19 AM PST by fight_truth_decay
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is holding a $1 trillion omnibus spending bill hostage to win leverage in a separate fight over taxes, GOP lawmakers claimed Tuesday.
The GOP members said Reid is ordering Democratic conferees on the spending bill to not sign off on a deal so that he can keep the House in session to work on legislation extending the payroll tax backed by President Obama.
The House is set to vote on the payroll bill on Tuesday, but Senate Democrats oppose the measure.
If the omnibus moved forward, the House could move its payroll bill and the omnibus and leave town, leaving it up to the Senate either to approve the GOP payroll tax cut bill or to let it die. This would put Reid and Senate Democrats in a tough position, since they could get the blame for letting the tax cut expire. But by holding up the omnibus, Reid could keep both chambers in town until a compromise is reached on the tax bill, since neither party wants to risk a government shutdown.
If Congress does not approve either the omnibus bill or a continuing resolution to keep the government funded by Friday, most of the government would shut down.
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here we go again..... didn’t this rerun just play a coupla months ago???? SHUT IT DOWN!!! let the dems own it, just pass your stuff and go home...... but alas, the socialist republicans will play right into the communists hands again... losers all
Why on Earth are Republicans NOT screaming to the American people that the Democrats are DEFUNDING Social Security!!!???
Not to worry ....... Boehner will wind up rolling over and giving in to obama and reid, like he did last time on the Super Committee deal.
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