Senate rejects House Republicans' conference demands

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Senate rejects House Republicans' conference demands

by Laura Clawson



In the ongoing government shutdown battle, the Senate again rejected House Republicans' latest demands first thing Tuesday morning. The House had called for a special conference committee, writing into it that they'd insist on several of the exact things that the Senate had already rejected. So basically House Republicans are saying "No, we won't pass a clean continuing resolution, but you should go into conference to try to compromise between your clean one and our dirty one." The Senate tabled that motion by a 54 to 46 vote.

Responding late Monday night,

“We will not go to conference with a gun to our head,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said on the Senate floor.

The Senate having rejected these demands from the House, the ball is back in—or remains in—the House's court, since the Senate has already sent the House a clean six-week CR.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/01/1242868/-Senate-rejects-House-Republicans-conference-demands

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[ProSense]

1. Kick

the House lunatics to the curb.