House Republicans are mulling their next move as Senate leaders look to jam them with a watered-down package far weaker than the lofty concessions Republican leaders once demanded for raising the debt limit and reopening the government. At the end of a huddle in Speaker John A. Boehner's office Monday, most Republican leaders remained mum on details — although one ripped President Barack Obama for doing an end run around the House GOP. "I would say that we believed that we could have worked with the president, and then the president dropped us like a hot potato, because our deal, he didn't want to deal with," said Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions R-Texas. "He wanted to deal with the senators, so that's what he's done." (more…)
