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Boehner: Stuck between booze on the rocks and a hard reality.
Heritage Action President: House GOP's Conference Plan Is A 'Stupid Idea'
Reacting to House GOP leadership's plan to go to conference with the Senate to negotiate the temporary government spending bill, Heritage Action president Michael Needham tweeted that it was a "stupid idea."
Needham's group has been pushing House Republicans to extract Obamacare concessions from Senate Democrats and the White House before passing a spending bill.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/heritage-action-president-says-house-gop-s-conference-plan-is-a-stupid-idea
Reacting to House GOP leadership's plan to go to conference with the Senate to negotiate the temporary government spending bill, Heritage Action president Michael Needham tweeted that it was a "stupid idea."
Michael Needham @MikeNeedham
Congress thinking of moving negotiations off of cspan and into back room conference cmte? Stupid idea. #MakeDCListen
10:20 PM - 30 Sep 2013
37 Retweets 2 favorites
Needham's group has been pushing House Republicans to extract Obamacare concessions from Senate Democrats and the White House before passing a spending bill.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/heritage-action-president-says-house-gop-s-conference-plan-is-a-stupid-idea
Reid Refuses To Entertain Conference Committee Plan
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) in no uncertain terms said Senate Democrats would not go to a conference committee with House Republicans unless they send a clean continuing resolution to the Senate.
"We will not go to conference with a gun to our head," Reid said late Monday night on the Senate floor. "The first thing the House has to do is pass a clean six-week C.R. They have that before them they can do that right now."
Earlier in the evening the House Rules Committee began meeting to discuss a rule that would let House Republicans request a conference committee with the Senate to negotiate a government funding bill. That move came with little more than an hour hour left before the deadline to prevent a government shutdown.
Reid reiterated in his floor remarks that the only way for Republicans to work with Democrats was if they passed a clean continuing resolution.
"We will not go to conference until we get a clean CR," Reid said, reiterating the Democrats' line to demand a bill that would continue to fund the government at current levels.
After Reid, Sens. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Dick Durbin (D-IL), Reid's lieutenants in the chamber, came to the floor to echo Reid's message.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/reid-refuses-to-entertain-conference-committee-plan
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) in no uncertain terms said Senate Democrats would not go to a conference committee with House Republicans unless they send a clean continuing resolution to the Senate.
"We will not go to conference with a gun to our head," Reid said late Monday night on the Senate floor. "The first thing the House has to do is pass a clean six-week C.R. They have that before them they can do that right now."
Earlier in the evening the House Rules Committee began meeting to discuss a rule that would let House Republicans request a conference committee with the Senate to negotiate a government funding bill. That move came with little more than an hour hour left before the deadline to prevent a government shutdown.
Reid reiterated in his floor remarks that the only way for Republicans to work with Democrats was if they passed a clean continuing resolution.
"We will not go to conference until we get a clean CR," Reid said, reiterating the Democrats' line to demand a bill that would continue to fund the government at current levels.
After Reid, Sens. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Dick Durbin (D-IL), Reid's lieutenants in the chamber, came to the floor to echo Reid's message.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/reid-refuses-to-entertain-conference-committee-plan
John Boehner: Worst. Speaker. Ever.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023755078
