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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHouse Republicans plan on voting for Continuing Resolution without funding Obamacare...
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In what would be a dramatic change of course, House Republican leaders are considering a strategy of risking a government shutdown at the end of this month if Obamacare isnt defunded.
In the weekly conference meeting Wednesday morning, GOP leaders intend to propose a continuing resolution to keep the federal funded beyond Sept. 30 but strip out funding for Obamacare. The move was first reported by the conservative National Review.
Senior Republicans know the strategy is a nonstarter in the Democratic-led Senate, and for months have wanted to avoid a shutdown confrontation over Obamacare. The latest move is a tacit admission from leaders that they have, for the moment at least, been defeated by conservatives who are eager to eliminate the health care law at all costs. When the House bill fails in the Senate, as it is certain to do, House GOP leaders would then try to pass a clean continuing resolution that funds the government but leaves Obamacare alone. The prospects of a clean stopgap bill winning over most House Republicans are also remote.
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The proposal, if House Republicans decide to run with it, would spur a standoff that significantly raises the prospects of a shutdown at the end of the month. If the bill fails in the Senate, anti-Obamacare conservatives arent likely to let up and embrace a clean continuing resolution; theyll demand that House Republicans hold out until Democrats cave.
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House Republicans plan on voting for Continuing Resolution without funding Obamacare... (Original Post)
kentuck
Sep 2013
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RKP5637
(67,112 posts)1. How immature and childish. Unfit to serve! An absolute display
of arrested development.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)2. Absolutely!
But they have to show their Tea Party followers that they are ready to shut down the government to stop Obamacare. Of course, it will not pass the Senate. And if it diid, the President would veto it. How long would the people put up with the government being shut down? Not long.