House To Pass Bills To Reopen National Parks, VA, District of Columbia Government

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Republicans say the GOP-controlled House intends to pass legislation to reopen portions of the government, including national parks and processing of claims at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The House would also allow the government of Washington, D.C. to use its own taxpayer funds to provide services like garbage pickup, as well as keep D.C. employees on the job.

The closure of national parks is among the most visible effects of the partial government shutdown that hit the government after midnight on Monday. It would reopen gates and visitors centers at iconic parks like Yosemite and Yellowstone.

While VA hospitals remain open and veterans benefits continue to be paid, the legislation would allow claims processors to continue to work on the agency's lengthy backload of applications.

Read more: http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/ea6eb6419adb4c6aa14d3ce83841a76f/US--Budget-Battle-Partial-Reopening

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So they are carrying out the plan to fund the gov't piecemeal, one item at a time. I call bullshit and to not let one of these attempts proceed.

[onehandle]

1. No fucking way. We can play the 'all or nothing' game too.

Fuck them.

[Zoonart]

4. To the 10th power!

I hope the Senate does not let them start sneaking in any of these face saving measures.
F Them!
All or nothing - fund it all... right now or reap the whirlwind.

[Iliyah]

2. They are losing the battle

read on TPM that Cantor tweeted a picture of repigs sitting on one side of an long table (all white dudes) waiting on the Dems to show up to discuss the budget.

These people have no souls.

[Democat]

3. Their goal is likely to fund everything that makes Republican voters and corporations happy

While refusing to fund anything that Democratic voters care about or that helps the poor.

[Zoonart]

5. Right

Now they want to cherry pick what pieces of government they will fund and what they will not. This is their plan ongoing- just like the Sequester... let it drag out and kill as much of government funding as they can. Drown it in the bathtub.

[DallasNE]

6. Putting Lipstick On A Pig

Interesting too how Republicans are constantly attempting to cut funding on most of these very items and now they want to treat them like essential services. Don't get me wrong, I love the national parks and have my lifetime pass to visit them but no way would I consider them as essential as my social security check. And it is not like Republicans didn't know that these things would occur last March when they made a decision to shut down the government by refusing to go to conference with the Senate to resolve budget differences. 18 times Republicans refused that request and now the bellyache about what they themselves set in motion. The solution is simple, Boehner just needs to bring to the floor for a vote the measure passed by the Senate several days ago.

[denverbill]

7. I say add a provision to the bill increasing the top tax rate to 70% and pass it.

[srican69]

9. who will add that provision? The senate? EOM

[denverbill]

10. That's what I was thinking.

[geek tragedy]

8. This is a softball for Reid. He can take any one of those bills, turn around and amend

it to restore funding for the full government, and send it back to the House.

[Paulie]

22. That would be awesome. He should include all 12 appropriations the senate already passed

Instead of a CR.

[kestrel91316]

11. Obama needs to stand firm and say NO to these whining babies.

We've got the essentials. We can survive. These jackasses just want their tourism dollars. Sorry.

[Marthe48]

12. Family vaca at OBX this week

Cape Hatteras National Seashore, park access, boat ramps, light houses are closed, because of the shut down. The local people are angry and I don't blame them. This area relies heavily on tourism and it is confusing--what is open, what isn't? I'd rather see the national places stay shut than let the stupid moron idiots pick and choose what they want.

[RobinA]

13. Count Me In

Shutdown should mean shut down. No nothing. Couple hours with no ATC would get this thing done. No opening the stuff people need and like.

[DippyDem]

14. Give the repugs a taste of their own medicine

Have the Senate attach a long list of Democratic demands and ping it back to the House!

[Liberalynn]

17. Bingo

Here's some things on my list,

Single Payer Health Care with the ability to negotiate pharmaceutical costs

Even Higher Emissions Standards

An Amendment to the Constitution to reverse Citizens United.

Increase to Social Security

A Job's Bill

Infrastructure money

Stricter Wall Street Regulation

That's just what comes to mind at the moment and not in any particular order, and I am sure there are a hell of a lot more I could come up with.

Oh yes and above all: The tea par tiers all have to resign, go home, shut up, and admit their particular party is over.

[blackspade]

15. Uh, no. The House needs to send a clean CR or budget for the whole government.

This piecemeal crap is just another way for them to hold the nation hostage.

[Liberalynn]

16. Senate should vote no

and President should say he will veto, if by any chance the Senate were to let it pass.

[Swede Atlanta]

18. Harry Reid is NOT going to even bring these jokes to the floor of the Senate......

While all spending bills must originate in the House they still require passage in the Senate and a Presidential signature.

These are just games to see if they can find a way to fund everything they want but deny millions of Americans access to affordable health care insurance.

Reid needs to state categorically these are DOA and move on.

Unfortunately these jokers are hurting ordinary Americans - children that cannot go to Head Start, loyal hard-working federal workers and their families that are denied a paycheck, visitors to our national treasures, etc.

[muriel_volestrangler]

19. Meanwhile, clinical cancer trials get cancelled

You've heard about the Pandacam, the closed monuments and national parks, and the furloughed federal workers. But so far, nothing I've read about the government shutdown has been nearly as gut-wrenching as this tidbit from The Wall Street Journal:

At the National Institutes of Health, nearly three-quarters of the staff was furloughed. One result: director Francis Collins said about 200 patients who otherwise would be admitted to the NIH Clinical Center into clinical trials each week will be turned away. This includes about 30 children, most of them cancer patients, he said.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/10/the-saddest-paragraph-youll-read-about-the-government-shutdown-today/280174/

[jwirr]

20. Obama needs to say NO

[Politicub]

21. Fuck them

They don't get to unilaterally decide which parts of government get funded. It doesn't work like that.

Hold fast, Mr. President and senate dems!