House Democratic leaders say they want to reach across the aisle to end the government shutdown, but one bipartisan solution being touted by a small group of moderates from both parties isn't what they had in mind. According to multiple sources, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., expressed strong opposition in an Oct. 3 closed-door whip meeting to an effort spearheaded by New Democrat Coalition chairman Ron Kind of Wisconsin and leading GOP moderate Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania. Their proposal would fund the government for six months at the sequester level of $986 billion and contain no policy riders except for a repeal of a medical device tax that funds portions of the 2010 health law. (more…)
