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“If Reid pursues this plan — if he insists on using a 50-vote threshold to fund Obamacare with a partisan vote of only Democrats — then I hope that every Senate Republican will stand together and oppose
the armed forces operational while agencies charged with implementing Obamacare stand without funds.
I support that. And I hope they’ll leave no stone unturned to do that,” he said.
It’s not easy to pass a farm bill in the House without a single Democratic vote. House Republicans, however, accomplished just that feat — twice.
“I don’t tapdance around any question,” he said.
I hope it doesn’t end up with some goal we’re unlikely to achieve, like overall tax reform,” Blunt said. Both parties long have viewed the nation’s 28 million small businesses as keys to growth.
The OPM’s August ruling was intended to remedy a drafting error in the 2010 health care law that would require all Congressional staffers to pay for the full cost of their insurance without employer
I didn’t go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count — the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position.
Ted Cruz said Wednesday evening that he hopes every Senate Republican will stand up against funding Obamacare.
“We would prefer the number be at the BCA level over here, I mean that’s kind of the Senate Republican position,” Thune said.
“I think we have a lot of leverage and it’s because the Republican leadership is incapable of leading its own caucus,” he said in an interview with CQ Roll Call last month.
“I just think it’s a good plan,” said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a former chairman of the Republican Study Committee and an avid supporter of defunding Obamacare through the CR.
“I am prepared to work with Democrats and Republicans to deal with our long-term entitlement issues,” he said.
But, as Boehner said during his news conference, Congress has long negotiated over raising the debt limit. “This CR is not going to be any different,” he said.
“We don’t have the votes,” Reid said. “I hope we get them, but we don’t have them now.”
to unfold in the White House was Woodrow Wilson’s, and I think the second really affects the first,” Berg said.
By eliminating the employer contribution for covered employees, it would put the workers in the same category as those without benefits. That’s a point Majority Whip Richard J.
Carper, D-Del., and ranking member Tom Coburn, R-Okla., Ayotte said senators should have a better understanding of hiring practices for contractors at military bases so that only qualified candidates who
Carper, D-Del., and ranking member Tom Coburn, R-Okla., Ayotte said senators should have a better understanding of hiring practices for contractors at military bases so that only qualified candidates who
Many federal agencies undoubtedly can afford a 5 percent haircut without damaging the national interest.