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Republican leaders considering Plan B to stop healthcare law
Source: Los Angeles Times
Republican leaders considering Plan B to stop healthcare law
By Lisa Mascaro
September 25, 2013, 3:00 a.m.
WASHINGTON - With their effort to block money to run the government until President Obama guts the new healthcare law starting to fizzle, Republican leaders are considering Plan B.
Senate Republicans are pushing renegade Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to wrap up his filibuster-like obstruction of the government funding bill sooner rather than later. Top Republicans want to get the legislation back to the House in time to give Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) an opportunity to attach new healthcare repeal amendments that might have a better chance at achieving GOP policy goals.
But time is not on their side. Money to keep routine government services open runs out Oct. 1, and Cruz has vowed to slow-walk the legislation, using every parliamentary tool at his disposal, in the right flank’s quest to undo the Affordable Care Act.
Wednesday is the first of several procedural votes, a process that could stretch through the weekend as Cruz tries to block Senate Democrats, who have the majority, from stripping the provisions defunding the healthcare law. Boehner would have just hours before facing a government shutdown.
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By Lisa Mascaro
September 25, 2013, 3:00 a.m.
WASHINGTON - With their effort to block money to run the government until President Obama guts the new healthcare law starting to fizzle, Republican leaders are considering Plan B.
Senate Republicans are pushing renegade Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to wrap up his filibuster-like obstruction of the government funding bill sooner rather than later. Top Republicans want to get the legislation back to the House in time to give Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) an opportunity to attach new healthcare repeal amendments that might have a better chance at achieving GOP policy goals.
But time is not on their side. Money to keep routine government services open runs out Oct. 1, and Cruz has vowed to slow-walk the legislation, using every parliamentary tool at his disposal, in the right flank’s quest to undo the Affordable Care Act.
Wednesday is the first of several procedural votes, a process that could stretch through the weekend as Cruz tries to block Senate Democrats, who have the majority, from stripping the provisions defunding the healthcare law. Boehner would have just hours before facing a government shutdown.
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Read more: http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-republicans-plan-b-healthcare-law-20130925,0,585824.story
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With their effort to block money to run the government until President Obama guts the new healthcare law starting to fizzle, Republican leaders are considering Plan B.
