Boehner Plans to Amend Senate CR
</p> Asked if he would now accept a “clean” CR from the Senate to avoid a government shutdown, the Ohio Republican was plain-spoken: “I do not see that happening.”
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Durbin: House CR Changes Will Cause Government Shutdown
</p> “How long does it take to pass a motherhood resolution in the Senate when everybody is on board? Oh, probably four days,” Durbin said.
Vitter Files Expanded Ethics Complaint Against Reid, Boxer
</p> The Louisiana Republican has repeatedly charged that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and California Democratic Sen.
Manchin Backs One-Year Delay of Individual Mandate
</p> “There’s no way I could not vote for it,” Manchin said at a breakfast sponsored by Bloomberg News. “It’s very reasonable and sensible.”
Eric Cantor All Revved Up After NASCAR Pitstop
At the top of their list are a Senate-passed bill to expand research and education on preterm birth and one of Cantor’s bills to end taxpayer financing for presidential campaigns and conventions and shift
Corker: Only Cruz and Lee Holding Up CR Votes (Video)
</p> “In talking earlier with the senator from Texas.
Grassley Frustrated by Fight Over His Health Care Amendment
</p> As Grassley explained, “We didn’t have to abide by those laws; we’re employers, too, you know.”
Republicans Plot CR Endgame
</p> The Senate on Wednesday voted 100-0 to open debate on the three-month House CR bill, following a 21-hour, 19-minute pseudo-filibuster from Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.
Shutdown or Not, Farm Bill Extension Expires on Oct. 1
</p> There’s no farm bill because Congress has not yet been able to agree on a new measure, with the next expected step a procedural move to merge the Senate farm bill (S 954), the House agriculture-only
Senate CR Keeps $174K Payment for Lautenberg Widow
The Senate Democrats’ stopgap spending bill amendment would strip out the House’s Obamacare defunding language but preserve the $174,000 payment to the widow of the late Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg.
Senate Votes 100-0 to Take Up CR as Cruz Shows Signs of Bending on Schedule
Ted Cruz indicated a willingness to accelerate the timetable for the more important vote to cut off debate on the bill.
House Republicans Mull Delaying Obamacare in Next CR Salvo
</p> The Senate is currently considering the House-passed stop-gap spending bill and it’s likely that Democrats will succeed this week in scrubbing the measure of the defund Obamacare language.
Senate Endgame in Sight for Stopgap Spending Bill
</p> The Senate quickly adopted the motion to proceed to the spending bill by voice vote (after limiting debate 100-0 earlier in the day).
Hoyer Predicts Debt Limit Increase Will Last Through Election Year
</p> “Frankly, [Speaker John A.]
Cornyn Praises Cruz, but Disagrees on Obamacare Tactics
</p> “I can’t see voting against that bill, which is what we’ve been asking for — for the last six months,” Cornyn said.
McConnell: Cruz Plan Would Shut Government and Keep Obamacare Funded (Video)
</p> On Monday, McConnell’s spokesman said the Kentucky Republican would vote to end debate on the bill, a vote that Cruz claims will facilitate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s plan to strip Obamacare defunding
Reid Backs Mikulski on Shorter-Term CR (Updated)
He expects the stopgap spending bill to pingpong between the chambers, though a shorter stopgap bill might attract more House Democratic votes, making Speaker John A.
Is the ‘Boehner Rule’ on Life Support?
</p> What wasn’t clear Tuesday was how, exactly, the bill would do that.
Senate Democrats Eye a Third Fall Showdown
Ted Cruz of Texas —Democrats are sure that by the end of the weekend, they will be able to remove the defunding language from the bill the House passed last week.