Posted on 10/08/2013 9:40:09 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
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 and U.S. Capitol Hill police, while the shutdown continues.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
NO NO NO. It will be a sham.
“Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is making plans to try to move a clean debt ceiling hike through the upper chamber, though it is unclear whether he’ll be able to win the 60 votes necessary to overcome procedural hurdles.”
Because the last supercommittee worked so well...
Washington: where fools gather.
Anything big, anything bipartisan, anything like that is dangerous.
Gutless bastids...
Good grief...
Exactly. The last thing Congress needs is another ‘gang’.
Oh great another Supercommittee. Like it worked so well last time.
“gang”, “super-”, “blue ribbon” - it all means “little people get screwed”.
If this supercommittee comes into play, we all know it will be packed full of RINOs and the Republicans will yet again surrender. The GOP is saving the Democrats from themselves.
WE shouldn’t be doing ANYTHING. The democrats have not moved an inch. Any movement on our side is simply negotiating with ourselves while they watch....and laugh.
Let me guess, Ted Cruz will NOT be on that supercommittee.
Newt Gingrich: Super Committee Is Washington’s Dumbest Idea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN8GPQgIusc
Not another “Gang of 8” deal
isn’t that what got us sequestered?
look how well the democrats followed though on spending cuts that were part of the 2011 deal
its more reliable to negotiate with the Russians, North Koreans AND Iranians then the democrat party
It’s a trick.
It will be capitulation.
No worries, obama just said go pound sand.
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