Paul Ryan Wants Budget Conference (GOP caves on shutdown?)

Roll Call ^ | 10/10/2013 | Emma Dumain and Niels Lesniewski

[Alter Kaker]

Updated 12:28 p.m. | House Budget Chairman Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., told reporters Thursday morning that he intends to go to conference on the budget, signaling the end to one of the year’s greatest impasses between the two parties and chambers.

“We’re gonna start negotiations,” Ryan said. “I intend to go to conference.

“I think when Leader Pelosi said that they would remove all the motions to instruct, that was a good-faith effort to get serious negotiations going,” he continued. “We intend to go to conference on that. As you know, a budget resolution is not sufficient to do all that we need to do, but it’s a step in the right direction.”

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., flanked by other members of Democratic leadership, announced Oct. 5 that her party was prepared to forfeit its right to offer “motions to instruct” should Republicans name conferees to merge the House and Senate budgets. That removed the threat of forcing Republicans having to take numerous politically difficult but nonbinding votes.

Speaker John A. Boehner made mention of a budget conference as part of an overall offer to President Barack Obama that would extend the debt ceiling for six weeks but not reopen the government.

“What we’re going to do is offer the president the ability to move a temporary increase in the debt ceiling [and] an agreement to go to conference on the budget for his willingness to sit down and discuss with us a way forward to reopen the government and start to deal with America’s pressing problems,” the Ohio Republican said.

Senate Democrats have held the position that both the debt ceiling and the current government shutdown must be addressed before moving into broader negotiations on the top-line spending levels for fiscal 2014 and other budgetary changes.

“We think the only way out of this cycle of constant crises is for the two sides to work together, make some compromises, and get to a fair and responsible long term deal,” Senate Budget Chairwoman Patty Murray said Wednesday. “But it just doesn’t make sense to do that while families and communities are being hurt by this government shutdown and while the threat of a default hangs over our head.”

The Washington Democrat made the comments on the Senate floor while making yet another request for a budget conference committee upon action to avert a default and get the government funded.

“We will sit down and negotiate over anything Republicans want, and we pledge to work as hard as we can, for as long as it takes until we get a fair long-term budget deal to end these constant crises. But first, this current crisis needs to end and the threat of the next one needs to be lifted,” Murray said. “Republicans don’t need a hostage, there are plenty of things Democrats want out of a long term deal that we are very interested in making some compromises for.”

[JRandomFreeper]

BTTT.

/johnny

[Alter Kaker]

Our entire strategy is to force negotiations over the budget, now Paul Ryan is a traitor for seeking negotiations over the budget?

Negotiations are great, conference committee is a no go.

[redgolum]

Not really. There will be a crash sooner or later. Timing no longer concerns me. The only question is who will leverage that crash into election results

[concerned about politics]

Oh great. The polls are showing oboma as one of the most irresponsible presidents in recent history, and what do the idiot the Republicans do? They turn him back into a savior of all man kind in the name of "bipartisanship.".

Gawd, I despise the RINOs in Washington. If someone isn't 100% tea party, they can bite me come the next election. I won't be deceived again. They'll be booted out like they deserve, because they're no different than their so called "opponents."

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[Nextrush]

There will another “imperfect deal” in the end probably right before Christmas when your minds may be in diverted or in a different mode.

The train will keep rolling down the tracks to the cliff, its only the rate of speed that needs to be determined.

[what's up]

He sucks why?

Because as budget Chair he's going to do his job and negotiate a budget?

Really?

[riri]

I agree. I never “got it back” for Ryan after that bizarre debate performance. His, not Biden’s. I expect that crap from the democrats.

[riri]

There are approximately 80 other posts on this thread laying out reasons why he “sucks”. Not sure why you singled me out but peruse the thread and pick one.

[what's up]

pick one

I did pick one. You.

And that's because your post stuck out as slamming Ryan with no reasoning.

Negotiating a budget is Ryan's job. So because he's doing his job he sucks?

[SkyPilot]

He sucks why? Because as budget Chair he's going to do his job and negotiate a budget? Really?

Wow. Someone on Free Republic who is actually employing logic and rationale rather than having a hissy fit with their emotions.

Kudos to you.

You are, of course, correct. That is his role.

We don't control the Senate. We don't control the White House.

Ryan actually should have gone to Conference months ago. The Senate called our bluff and actually passed a budget this year (first time since 2009).

Per regular order, the House MUST hold a Conference with the Senate budget to work out the discrepancies.

Ryan was under tremendous pressure to bring this mess to yet another "cliff" and beyond.

Last week, many GOP House members realized too late that they have painted themselves into a corner.

They know they can either raise the debt ceiling before great harm is done to the US economy, or after great harm has been done to the US economy.

We have done that, and the gain was always going to be minimal given the two inconvenient facts again:

We don't control the Senate. We don't control the White House.

Once the America voter corrects the above, then it is another ballgame - but unfortunately, we have millions of lazy, immoral Takers who voted otherwise (not to mention a rigged election due to the IRS scandal and voter fraud, but that is another conversation).

Any budget agreement, be in yet another CR or a real budget (the first in years) has to be negotiated.

Ryan warned yesterday, in no uncertain terms, that if have a technical default (and prioritizing payments is a default by another name), then the interest rates on our debt will skyrocket, and that slice of the Federal budget we now make in debt payments will eat the budget alive.

[what's up]

We don't control the Senate. We don't control the White House.

Correct and yet a majority of people here hate the GOP for not giving them everything they want.

Basically the main job of the GOP right now is to hold the line. They've done it with gun control, they've done it with cap and trade...and we actually got a slowing in spending which is remarkable given we only have 1/3 of the Govt.

I can't believe the hatred toward Ryan is so thick because he "caved" and wants to negotiate a budget. Ryan didn't cave. He's doing his job.

[JRandomFreeper]

We do have the ultimate power of the purse in the House, though. That's a pretty big club to wield. The debt cap doesn't require a default.

/johnny

[SADMILLIE]

Ryan is out of influence. HE IS A CAVER.

[RedMDer]

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[SunkenCiv]

*OBAMA REJECTS REPUBLICAN PROPOSAL FOR SHORT-TERM PLAN: NYT
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[Jim Robinson]

They can refuse to vote for funding Obamacare. If the house does not fund it, it does not get funded. Period.

[caww]

They already have a years delay on the mandate....Seblius said individuls can ‘pay the fine’ and they have a year.

[caww]

It’s my understanding this 6 week extension would keep them coming back for more money the next six weeks etc. etc....wearing them down ..meanwhile the House passes funding bills for everything else in Government one bill or so at a time .... then the Senate has to or not fund each one...but in doing this piece by piece it bypasses entirely funding Obamacare.

[freedom462]

Fair enough. At this point, it seems we have to keep prayers up that the House GOP stays the course and if they don;t, respond accordingly for the next year and a half, all the way through the Nov 2014 elections and cast our votes in accordance to who stays the course and who folds.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

“then defeat obamacare through persuasion”

After we lose 90% of our best doctors. Yeah, sounds ‘great’.