House GOP delays work on funding bill amid conservative demands

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House Republicans are delaying consideration of a stopgap spending bill to keep the government funded past Friday amid growing divisions over their year-end strategy.

The House Rules Committee had planned to meet later Tuesday afternoon to prepare a short-term bill to fund the government through Dec. 22. 

But the panel reversed course and announced it will instead meet Wednesday afternoon. That would indicate a Thursday vote on the spending measure, bringing lawmakers closer to the Friday deadline.

House Republicans met for more than an hour on Tuesday morning to discuss the path forward on the government funding bill as the conservative House Freedom Caucus pushed to extend the deadline in the bill to Dec. 30.

“The point is we’re having the kind of family discussion that we need to have about how to proceed forward with a majority," Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) told reporters after the meeting.

Freedom Caucus members want to push the deadline to after Christmas because they worry the Dec. 22 deadline would increase the possibility that lawmakers would accept a spending package with extraneous measures, such as immigration and ObamaCare, to end work and return home for the holidays.

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/363325-house-gop-delays-work-on-spending-bill-after-conservative-demands

[NCjack]

1. Well, any concerns they have about a growing debt have been shot to hell. They should

just get on with passing a 7-year extension.