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Home Front: Politix

Shutdown showdown hits brink as Senate kills House spending bill

2013-10-01

[WASHINGTONTIMES] The Senate voted Monday afternoon to kill House Republicans' latest stopgap spending offer, holding firm in their demand that Congress continue to fund Obamacare as part of any government-funding debate.

The 54-46 vote officially tabled both proposals the House GOP passed early Sunday morning, one of which would have funded the government while delaying the health law for a year, and the other of which would have repealed one of the Affordable Care Act's tax increases.

Senate Majority Leader

Harry Reid
... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ...
bundled both of those proposals into a single vote, which made it easier to round up the support to kill them.

Now the measure returns to the House, where Republicans have said they are considering several options to keep the government open past midnight Monday while also making a dent in Obamacare. Earlier in the day Republicans complained that they weren't getting the bill back from the Senate early enough.

"Senate decided not to work yesterday. Well my goodness, if there's such an emergency, where are they?" Speaker John A. Boehner said as he opened Monday's House session.

Posted by:Fred

#6 Perhaps. But let's let the other end of the political spectrum make the inaccurate claims.

Posted by: Pappy 2013-10-01 21:22

#5 Pappy, some days it's hard to tell the TSA's product from trying to shut down airports.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-10-01 19:51

#4 It was the FAA that tried to shut down the airports, not the TSA.

Posted by: Pappy 2013-10-01 18:12

#3 Here's hoping my paycheck this friday will NOT have federal withholding on it!
/SARC
That reality ALONE puts the lie to the "shutdown" premise: Government will not shut down, just be trimmed back to a forced balance budget. If Obama is the smartest man in the room, he'll have the wisdom to know where to cut to ensure that the government makes its LEGITIMATE payments.

The last showdown nearly spilled the beans when the TSA shut down the airports because of the Sequester: that was immediately seen as a punitive measure against a public that DARED to tell them to cut back their spending!

Posted by: Ptah 2013-10-01 10:41

#2 Weasel words aside, the Democrats ignored the Republicans entirely.

Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-10-01 10:30

#1 Deadlock = Lockout???

In any case, WINNER/ADVANTAGE = IRAN, CHINA + NUCLEAR GLOBAL JIHAD.

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-10-01 00:09

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