House GOP to attach Obamacare delay to CR

Politico ^ | September 28, 2013 | John Bresnahan & Jake Sherman

[LostInBayport]

House Republicans will vote to pass a one-year delay of Obamacare in exchange for funding the government, a plan that drastically increases the chances of a government shutdown this Tuesday.

The decision was announced by the GOP leadership in a closed meeting Saturday afternoon, according to sources present. Republicans will also pass a bill to fund U.S. troops if the government shuts down, according to GOP lawmakers. The House’s funding measure will keep the government open until mid December.

This puts Senate Democrats and the White House at loggerheads with House Republicans, a standoff that could lead to the first government shutdown since 1995.

Senate Democrats passed a bill to fund the government until Nov. 15, but kept intact Obamacare.

“We’ve had enough of the disunity in our party,” Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) told the meeting of House Republicans Saturday afternoon. “The headlines are Republicans fighting Republicans. This will unite us. This protects the people who sent us here from Obamacare.”

House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said it would be the “fastest whip check in history,” as every member raised their hand, saying they would support the bill.

The House is expected to vote Saturday, sources say.

[NewHampshireDuo]

a standoff that could lead to the first government shutdown since 1995.

Funny, I was fully alert in 1995 and I don't remember anything disruptive about that shutdown. Gosh, could it be that it was mostly noise from the left?

[xzins]

The House’s funding measure will keep the government open until mid December.

A one year delay will make it an issue again right before the election next year...next October with the election in December.

The 2.5 month funding, though, has me puzzled. Wouldn't that give them the chance to revisit funding through the back door? If not, then I don't understand why not, because funding ObamaCare requires a certain level of spending, and if that level of spending is not approved, then all heck will break out if Obama tries to move social security or defense money over to Obamacare funding.

[LostInBayport]

The 2.5 month funding, though, has me puzzled. Wouldn't that give them the chance to revisit funding through the back door?

I think it would. Perhaps they will try defunding certain components. They should pick a few that are essential to the entire thing but so "in the weeds" legislative-wise that the low information voters would zone out when the democrats squawk about it.

[LostInBayport]

Gosh, could it be that it was mostly noise from the left?

Nope. It was ALL noise from the left! They still blather on about it. ;)

[xzins]

My memory says it was passport offices at the time that everyone moaned about. You couldn’t get a passport, the waits were “awful”, and so and so had to go see a dying grandmother and couldn’t.

But passport offices really weren’t critical; the media just pushed them as critical.