Posted on 12/11/2014 11:53:14 AM PST by Servant of the Cross
Updated 2:30 p.m. | Unsure whether they have the votes to pass a trillion-dollar federal spending package, House GOP leaders on Thursday afternoon delayed a final vote on the “cromnibus.”
They did so with mere hours to go until the government is set to run out of funding, and just before the House was scheduled to vote.
GOP leaders called a recess to floor proceedings, with a GOP leadership aide confirming “no conference meeting [is] planned at this time.” The aide said “leadership teams are still talking to their respective members,” and noted, “We still plan to vote this afternoon.”
It’s not clear, however, what they will be voting on.
If Republicans can’t surmont the impasse, they could decide to proceed with swiftly moving a short-term continuing resolution through the chamber, which the Senate could also pass before 11:59 p.m., when current funding expires.
In doing so, they would be throwing away months of hard-fought negotiations between appropriators and dashing dreams of a return to regular order when the GOP takes control of all of Capitol Hill in the new year.
But House GOP leadership may have few other options. After barely winning a procedural vote to bring the spending bill to the floor for full debate and consideration, they realized they were in peril of not having enough votes for passage. Too many Republicans were prepared to vote “no” because the Feb. 27 sunset date for Department of Homeland Security funding was not enough to pacify concerns the cromnibus contained no language to explicitly bar President Barack Obama from implementing his immigration executive orders.
Hopes that Democrats would be able to make up for the short-fall have also dimmed as the minority party fought back “poison-pill” policy riders rolling back the financial regulatory overhaul laws from the Dodd-Frank Act and loosening some campaign finance rules.
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., defied the White House’s call to pass the cromnibus during a scathing floor speech, in which she said she was “enormously disappointed” with the administration. Republican aides told CQ Roll Call that part of the reason for the recess was to give Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer a chance to whip votes on the Democratic side. A Hoyer aide denied this was the cause, saying House Democratic leadership is not whipping votes one way or another.
House Democratic sources said the White House might be making the rounds to members to find some support.
Get a clue Bonehead. You need Obama to pass this bill. Obama is poison. That should kill the bill. If does not, then it kills the GOP.
The fact that some media outlets are picking up on this “Cromnibus” moniker is a good sign. There must be a lot of GOP reps, even the ones who voted Yea earlier today, that will be uncomfortable being tied to such an ugly bill, particularly after all the grandiose promises made during the mid-term campaigns.
There is still hope this goes down, IMO. And I’m normally a glass-half-empty (or rather glass-completely-empty, no-hope-to-save-your-life!) pessimist. Or maybe I’m just in an unusually positive mood today, what with the holidays coming up....
Pray for God’s divine intervention to save our nation.
I’m just wondering, could this be the pissed off at Obama Democrats trying to get him back for wiping out their party?
Maybe they want to force Obama to deal with a Republican controlled Senate next year.
Been on hold for 11 minutes and counting! The switchboard must be melting down! (listing to classical music loop)
Poorly written article. I would like to know “how” the Democrats “fought back” attempts to change the Dodd-Frank Act and campaign reform/funding items. ‘
Did they win, even though they are in the minority, and if so, how? What House voting rules would let the minority successful “fought back” proposed changes.
Lots of bias in this article. The Hill used to be a very reliable source of information about Congress. Not so, now. Maybe they are trying to be a “mini-me Politico” which has lurched so far to the Left that it passed Tass and Pravda on the way out the door.
I have to admit this is really intersting to watch all this unfold. If the GOP was smart they should now sit back and let the rats blow this up.
Drudge says this bill has already passed: it was a foregone conclusion with the American people on the liberal side of so many issues now and conservatives powerless even to deny re-nomination to Thad Cochran.
What do you think now? LOL
Or not?
If what I’m reading is true then you were mostly right. Boehner told certain members that if they voted to close the rules what’chmacallit then he would shelve the bill and pass a CR.
Then, later that day, here comes the bill again.
So, you were mostly right. You just couldn’t have known that Boehner is such a complete liar.
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