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Related: About this forumGOP Lawmakers: House Could End Standoff With Up-Or-Down Vote On Clean Bill
GOP Lawmakers: House Could End Standoff With Up-Or-Down Vote On Clean Bill
09/30/2013 12:01 am EDT
WASHINGTON -- Throughout the budget showdown, the mantra of tea party Republicans, led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), has been "make DC listen."
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But there is a critical flaw in Republicans' argument that they are just carrying out the will of the people: If the House of Representatives -- the "People's House" -- was allowed by GOP leaders to work its will by casting a straight up-or-down vote on the bill passed by the Senate to avert a government shutdown, that bill would become law.
And that, more likely than not, is how this will end. The only question is when.
Shortly after House Republicans unveiled their latest gambit targeting Obamacare in exchange for funding the government, Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.) went off-script by throwing his support behind the Senate bill, which is known as a clean continuing resolution, because it continues government funding without major amendments to other legislation.
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Even those insisting they would support nothing less than a one-year delay of Obamacare conceded there were enough votes to pass a clean continuing resolution in the final hours.
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Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/30/house-clean-continuing-resolution_n_4014229.html
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GOP Lawmakers: House Could End Standoff With Up-Or-Down Vote On Clean Bill (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Sep 2013
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See!! Many of us were right! Even if there is a shutdown THEY, not the Democrats
Liberal_Stalwart71
Sep 2013
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BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)1. Exactly. The Senate should do nothing.
The Senate has already sent them a clean bill. There is nothing else to talk about and no reason for the Senate to take any further action. Reid should should simply ignore anything the House does on this. The Senate has already acted. The House simply needs to pass the same bill the Senate returned to them.
Don't negotiate with terrorists.
gordianot
(15,238 posts)2. I would hope there would be an up or down vote but remember........
Republicans are a bunch of sadistic assholes. I watched their debates in which they tried to prove who was the biggest asshole. "Let em die" the most telling quote of the Republican debates.
Wounded Bear
(58,656 posts)3. One small correction...
I'm pretty sure they are sado-masochistic assholes. They seem to love self immolation as much as screwing others. I think it is part of their martydom complex.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)4. See!! Many of us were right! Even if there is a shutdown THEY, not the Democrats
and not Obama will be the first to cave.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)5. Don't negotiate with economic terrorists, they're only bad news for Americans