As Republicans slam Planned Parenthood, shutdown threatens

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

US | Wed Sep 9, 2015 2:49pm EDT

As Republicans slam Planned Parenthood, shutdown threatens

WASHINGTON | BY DAVID LAWDER AND LINDSAY DUNSMUIR

Congressional Republicans showed no signs on Wednesday of having a clear plan for averting a U.S. government shutdown in three weeks over funding for Planned Parenthood, though senior party leaders have made clear they want to avoid that scenario.

As has happened before, a shutdown on Oct. 1 would likely rattle financial markets. But Republicans had little to say about this in their remarks about the women's health group and conservatives' demands that its federal funding be cut off.

After an hour-long, closed-door meeting of fellow party members, House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said there were "no decisions at this point" on the content of a stopgap funding bill for the federal fiscal year beginning Oct. 1.

Boehner, speaking to reporters for the first time since returning to Washington after a five-week summer recess that ended on Tuesday, also could not say when he would bring a spending bill to the House floor for passage.

The House has only seven legislative days before the Sept. 30 end of the fiscal year and the expiration of federal funds, which would trigger a shutdown.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/09/us-usa-plannedparenthood-congress-idUSKCN0R92EP20150909

[Wellstone ruled]

1. As planned.

These people could care what you or I want or think. It is all about the next Election Cycle and maintaining their so called base. Any thing to make Mr. Obama appear negative. These A-holes just do not care about women other than a Wedge Issue.

[LonePirate]

2. The last shutdown had no negative electoral impact for Repubs so they have nothing to lose

If the American public doesn't care about a shutdown one year after it happens, then the Repubs have nothing to fear about a shutdown in a non-election year. If this were 2016, they wouldn't dare try this stunt.