Posted on 09/30/2013 11:07:46 PM PDT by Nachum
The federal government shut down for the first time in 17 years last night.
Lawmakers in the Democrat-controlled Senate and Republican-controlled Congress failed to pass a budget allowing for the federal government to continue to be funded as it headed into the new fiscal year at midnight.
Late night negotiations ended in deadlock after the Senate Democrats refused to consider any version of the budget that included changes to President Obama's signature health care law.
This lack of compromise means that nearly a million federal workers will go on unpaid leave until the two legislative bodies come to an agreement.
As the zero-hour drew closer on Monday, with other avenues exhausted, the White House's Office of Management and Budget told federal agencies that they 'should now execute plans for an orderly shutdown due to the absence of appropriations.'
House Republican leaders on the Rules Committee had discussed the procedures for both parties to appoint 'conferees' – negotiating representatives – for a joint House-Senate conference committee empowered to hash out a compromise of the budget battle that has consumed Washington for days.
The House GOP scrambled all day to avoid being the party without a chair when the shutdown music stops and the federal government moves to a new fiscal year without money to spend.
Republicans have been insisting that a Continuing Resolution funding the federal government – a 'CR,' in Capitol Hill-speak – must include language defunding, delaying or otherwise changing the Affordable Care Act, President Obama's signature health care legislation.
Democratic Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid had said hours earlier that House GOP members had 'lost their minds.' That barb followed the House's decision to send its third such budget proposal to the Senate – one that everyone in Washington understood would be dead on arrival.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I actually thought about that! :-)
Well nobody at my company has been paid one red cent for their furlough days which has been one per week per employee for four years now. And nobody gives a crap. BTW, 90% of us are vets and nobody gives a good damn about that either.
Well nobody at my company has been paid one red cent for their furlough days which has been one per week per employee for four years now. And nobody gives a crap. BTW, 90% of us are vets and nobody gives a good damn about that either.
I dare say nobody on Free Repubkic has been applauding your situation either.
TC
fire /em all.....not needed
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