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Updated 1:35 a.m. | Now locked in a budget standoff during a government shutdown, House Republicans passed a face-saving measure early Tuesday morning that would request a conference with the Senate on
The New York Democrat continued, “What they’re asking is the No. 1 priority of the first Obama administration, just like the Bush tax cuts were of their administration.
Updated 12:17 a.m., Oct. 1 | The government has shut down for the first time in 17 years after House Republican leaders refused to pass a “clean” CR demanded by Democrats and moved to go to conference
Boehner indicated Thursday that he intended to change the Senate bill and send it back to that chamber, prompting Senate Democrats to warn that such an action would make a government shutdown on Oct. 1
It’s a sign of the political realities settling in, that the clock is ticking swiftly toward a potential government shutdown on Oct. 1 and neither party can identify how a compromise is reached.
The new fiscal year starts Oct. 1, which this year falls on Tuesday.
In any event, under Senate rules, the cloture vote that Reid set up Monday will trump Cruz at noon, with the vote coming automatically at 1 p.m.
Reid appeared visibly frustrated, both by Cruz’s apparent lack of understanding that he was entitled to the floor until 1 p.m. and by Cruz’s tone in addressing him.
Military paychecks could be delayed if there’s a lapse in government funding on Oct. 1, notes the Roll Call Topic A: Defense blog, citing a report from the military newspaper Stars and Stripes.
vote to limit debate on the motion to proceed to the fiscal 2014 stopgap spending bill — including for the moment the defunding of the 2010 health care law that Cruz supports — will occur no later than 1
Updated 1:20 p.m. | Sen. Ted Cruz said Friday that Republican senators should, in effect, filibuster the House-passed continuing resolution in the Senate.
Of course, each volley takes time and moves the calendar closer to the start of the new fiscal year on Oct. 1.
Of course, Congress is heading full speed ahead toward a debate over another such stopgap measure approaching Oct. 1.
We will be on the floor next week with an appropriations bill, but we are heading to Oct. 1, and we need a solution.”
For instance, senators this week easily confirmed Penny Pritzker to be Commerce secretary (that vote was 99-1) and Anthony Foxx to be Transportation secretary (that vote was 100-0).
lifted and future generations will ask whether our actions today meet the test of a democratic society — transparency, accountability and fidelity to the rule of law and our Constitution,” he said on Oct. 1,
“We hope to have the regular order and have all of our bills marked up and through the full committee by Aug. 1,” she said, adding that she hopes to get some of the bills through the floor as well
[IMGCAP(1)] During the current economic stimulus dispute, House Democrats objections to a Senate agreement that taxpayers should fund research on clinical effectiveness, rather than cost effectiveness
Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) succeeded in amending that legislation to provide an additional $1 billion for federally mandated election reform.