House G.O.P. Leaders List Conditions for Raising Debt Ceiling
By JONATHAN WEISMAN and ASHLEY PARKER, NYT
WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders shifted the budget battle on Thursday to a potentially more consequential fight over raising the government’s borrowing limit, rolling out conditions for a debt-ceiling increase that they pulled from three years of frustrated efforts to roll back regulations and undo President Obama’s first-term achievements.
Speaker John A. Boehner also made clear that he was not ready just yet to give up a policy fight that could shut down the federal government on Tuesday. Asked whether he would put a stopgap spending bill to a vote free of Republican policy prescriptions, he answered, “I do not see that happening.”
But anything other than a budget bill unadorned with Republican amendments would not pass the Senate, Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, said Thursday.
“They want to shut down the government — here’s how much time they have to figure it out,” Mr. Reid said, gesturing to a digital clock in a room off the Senate chamber that is ticking down, to the second, the time before the government shutdown deadline on Oct. 1. “They can play around all they want.”
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WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders shifted the budget battle on Thursday to a potentially more consequential fight over raising the government’s borrowing limit, rolling out conditions for a debt-ceiling increase that they pulled from three years of frustrated efforts to roll back regulations and undo President Obama’s first-term achievements.
Speaker John A. Boehner also made clear that he was not ready just yet to give up a policy fight that could shut down the federal government on Tuesday. Asked whether he would put a stopgap spending bill to a vote free of Republican policy prescriptions, he answered, “I do not see that happening.”
But anything other than a budget bill unadorned with Republican amendments would not pass the Senate, Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, said Thursday.
“They want to shut down the government — here’s how much time they have to figure it out,” Mr. Reid said, gesturing to a digital clock in a room off the Senate chamber that is ticking down, to the second, the time before the government shutdown deadline on Oct. 1. “They can play around all they want.”
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There is a underreported new political alliance in Minnesota .... it's not the MN-GOP and the DFL but DUO ... Defunding Obamacare United !
Both this article and the "House GOP Debt Ceiling Offer To Include Pro-Wall Street Provisions, Health Care Cuts" article fail to acknowledge the backdoor tax cut that two Minnesotans are pushing. Senator Amy Klobuchar told an industry conference that the 2.3% Medical Device Excise Tax will be repealed ... while Erik Paulsen as recently as yesterday repeated his plan to include repealing the tax as part of resolving the current fiscal battle.
United they stand in defunding Obamacare !
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