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House Speaker John Boehner failed to muster enough GOP votes to pass his plan to raise the debt limit on Thursday night, throwing into question the fate of Boehner’s proposal as well as that of his speakership. Republican leaders must now rewrite the legislation in order to attract more conservatives as they try to pass [...]
House Republican leaders came up short Thursday night in their effort to find enough votes to pass Speaker John Boehner’s bill to raise the debt ceiling, delaying consideration of the doomed bill until Friday and laying bare the deep divisions within the balkanized GOP conference. After hours of debate on Boehner’s bill, known as the Budget [...]
Updated, 10:00 PM House Republican leaders have delayed a pivotal vote on Speaker John Boehner’s proposal to cut the deficit and raise the federal debt ceiling, suggesting they may still be scrambling for votes after three days of whipping wavering members. Laena Fallon, a spokeswoman for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, said the vote will [...]
On Wednesday, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops sent a letter to Speaker Boehner informing him of its opposition to his deficit reduction proposal and arguing that “future budgets cannot rely on disproportionate cuts in essential services to poor persons.” On Thursday, religious organizations went from polite protest to full-scale mobilization on the Hill.
If it weren’t for the late-night jokes and the prime-time press conferences and the cable networks’ ticking countdown clocks to Debt Armageddon, you wouldn’t have thought the name of a post office was at stake in Congress on Thursday, let alone the full faith and credit of the United States. House Speaker John Boehner was [...]
The Speaker of the House is not messing around when it comes to whipping for his debt-ceiling plan: U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan’s open defiance of Speaker John Boehner’s efforts to solve the debt-ceiling crisis could cost the Urbana Republican his safe seat in next year’s election. Two Republican sources deeply involved in configuring new Ohio [...]
–Senator Rand Paul, rebuking John McCain for quoting a Wall Street Journal editorial that compared opponents of Boehner’s debt ceiling plan to characters from Lord of the Rings.
Let us not put too fine a point on it: Thursday’s House vote on Speaker John Boehner’s debt ceiling proposal is a joke. If it passes the House, Harry Reid has said it is dead on arrival in the Senate. If it somehow passes the Senate, which it won’t, President Obama will veto it. It [...]
There’s some question whether, as a presidential candidate, Rick Perry would present himself more as a Tea Party fighter or a level-headed Establishment Man. (The trick, of course, is to straddle the two worlds, but it’s not easy.) In his comments on Wednesday about the debt limit sumo wrestling match underway in Washington, Perry was [...]
All 53 Democratic Senators have pledged to oppose Boehner’s debt ceiling plan, which now looks likely to pass the House today. The Obama administration plans to announce at end-of-business Friday which checks won’t go out if there’s no deal. Here’s the likely answer. Barclay’s points to Japan in arguing that a downgrade wouldn’t really matter economically. (A default, [...]
