Boehner Will Bring ‘Clean’ Debt-Ceiling Increase to House Vote
Source: New York Times
WASHINGTON Facing a rebellion over his latest debt ceiling proposal, Speaker John A. Boehner has told House Republicans that he will bring legislation to a vote Wednesday that would raise the governments borrowing authority with no strings attached.
House Republican leaders told members this morning that it is clear the paid-for military COLA provision will not attract enough support, so we will be bringing up a clean debt limit bill tomorrow, a Republican aide said. Boehner made clear the G.O.P. would provide the requisite number of Republican votes for the measure but that Democrats will be expected to carry the vote.
On Monday night, Mr. Boehner laid out a plan to link the debt ceiling increase to legislation that would have reversed a cut to veteran retirement benefits. But conservative Republicans opposed the plan, and Republican leaders worried that Democrats would not go along, holding firm to President Obama's demand that no policy attachments come with a debt ceiling increase.
On Tuesday, the speaker gave up, a dramatic gesture for a leader who once declared the "Boehner Rule," which holds that any debt ceiling increase should be attached to spending cuts of equal size.
Read more: http://nytimes.com/2014/02/12/us/politics/boehner-to-bring-debt-ceiling-to-vote-without-policy-attachments.html
Long term unemployed still screwed by the GOPNRAteahadists that work Boehner's strings.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)them again.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)does this mean that he will clean out all social programs? I know that these damn RepubliCONs want this. And Boner is just the type to try it.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)He's sitting in the driver's seat perhaps, but he ain't driving the bus, if you know what I mean.
The Wizard
(12,549 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)not caving into the Pukes' ridiculous demands.
newfie11
(8,159 posts)apnu
(8,758 posts)All the RINOs will vote for it, all the Dems will vote for it. The rest will vote against it and then blame Democrats for raising the debt in every campaign buy. This is a set up to keep the myth going that Democrats just "tax and spend" and other such dreck.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)not extending long term unemployment benefits. Didn't you see the vote in the Senate. They are a nearly unanimous voting block in opposition and they should all take the blame rather than letting any of them off the hook by blaming their most extreme members.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
Javaman
(62,534 posts)savalez
(3,517 posts)Fear? Wtf? That's not the way to run a country.
GOTV 2014!