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Title: GOP faces omnibus headache
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Politico
URL Source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/63799.html
Published: Sep 19, 2011
Author: Politico
Post Date: 2011-09-19 09:30:15 by go65
Keywords: None
Views: 1238
Comments: 3
House Republicans have backed themselves into a corner: How do they keep the government open and pass year-end spending bills without wrapping them all into a monstrous omnibus bill — just the kind that conservatives despise and Speaker John Boehner himself slammed when Democrats ran the House? But that’s exactly where Republicans are headed as the Sept. 30 end to the fiscal year looms, and Boehner may now have to rely on Democrats and the White House to pass an all-inclusive spending bill. Conservative Republicans are already complaining about the possibility of a massive omnibus bill making its way through Congress this fall. “We hate omnibus bills,” Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) said, referring to House conservatives. Boehner has yet to make a final decision on whether to push an omnibus bill, and House GOP leaders have not settled on exactly what would be in that package. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) has told POLITICO an omnibus bill is the only path open to the GOP leadership at this point and the proposal was brought up during a bicameral GOP leadership meeting last week. Rogers is expected to begin discussions this week on an omnibus package with his Democratic counterpart, Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Rogers is expected to begin discussions this week on an omnibus package with his Democratic counterpart, Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. To buy time, the House will also take up a short-term continuing resolution that keeps the government open until mid-November while Congress finishes work on the 12 annual appropriation bills.
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#1. To: All (#0)
Didn't the GOP promise to pass a budget this year? What happened to the spending cuts?
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Yep to the first. See Harry Reid in answer to the 2nd, Dumbass.
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#2. To: go65 (#1)
Didn't the GOP promise to pass a budget this year? What happened to the spending cuts?
#3. To: go65 (#0)
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