House GOP unveils “clean” CR to push budget fight to mid-December

Hotair ^ | 09/10/2014 | Ed Morrissey

[SeekAndFind]

With all of the other news ricocheting around the media and social networks, this may seem like a sleeper of a story, but it’s a bigger deal than one might think — literally as well as figuratively. Last night, House Republicans unveiled their proposed continuing resolution that will fund government well past the midterm elections, and it won’t make conservatives like Rep. Jeb Hensarling too happy. The proposal calls for a simple extension of current funding, plus some extra cash to deal with the Ebola outbreak in Africa and more flexibility on the use of cash for border security. Otherwise, this is a pooch kick to December:

House Republican leaders Tuesday unveiled a temporary government funding bill that includes a short-term extension of a trade-promotion agency that has been targeted by conservative activists, eliminating a key sticking point in the effort to avoid a government shutdown.

The bill would keep the government running on this year’s budget levels from the start of the new fiscal year, Oct. 1, until ­mid-December, when negotiators would prefer to approve detailed spending plans for the federal agencies through 2015.

Rep. Harold Rogers (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said the bill would keep federal agencies open through Dec. 11, would match President Obama’s request for $88 million in funds to help fight the spread of Ebola in Africa, and would provide flexibility to departments working on the U.S.-Mexico border to handle the flood of unaccompanied Central American minors arriving at the border.

Even Hensarling bowed to the wisdom of putting off the Export-Import Bank fight until the next session of Congress, according to John Boehner:

[E. Pluribus Unum]

That way the lame ducks will have plenty of time to pass amnesty and anything else they can think of to screw us over.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Just as predicted:

Ted Cruz: We should use everything, including our bill to fund the govt, to stop Obama’s amnesty
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3202441/posts

[Pollster1]

We should kick the can down the road to January, not just December.

[House Atreides]

“We should kick the can down the road to January, not just December.”
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Ted Cruz has been doing just that (except to March 2015 instead of January 2015) so that the process can be handled by the more conservative House that will be in Congress and by a Senate with a Republican majority.

This would so that long term decisions are not made by the Harry Reid/John Boehner lame duck Congress in December.

This strategy of Cruz is well thought out and hopefully will come about.

[House Atreides]

“We should kick the can down the road to January, not just December.”
**************************************************************************************

Ted Cruz has been doing just that (except to March 2015 instead of January 2015) so that the process can be handled by the more conservative House that will be in Congress and by a Senate with a Republican majority.

This would so that long term decisions are not made by the Harry Reid/John Boehner lame duck Congress in December.

This strategy of Cruz is well thought out and hopefully will come about.

[Repeal The 17th]

I’d rather see the continuing resolution authorize extending funding
at current levels until November 5th “as is” with no other provisions.
And let the Senate chew on that.

[oldbill]

This is why there will be no big Senate victory for Republicans.
The smart people, namely ordinary Americans like you and me, see that the Republican elites really don’t give a damn, and they will shove amnesty down our throats. Then hope you forget two years later.

This is how you snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

It is also why Obama is waiting till after the election for amnesty. He knows that even if the Republicans win big, he will still get his amnesty from the McCains, Grahams, Flakes, and their ilk in the lame duck session before better conservatives take over in January.

[zerosix]

The ghost of Eric Cantor is alive and well in the House!

[Mike Darancette]

It’s too easy; Harry Reid and Obama may not go for it. I wish they would avoid a lame duck budget fight, unless the GOP intends to turn the screws then.