House Republican leaders said they will try to force the Democratic-led Senate to vote on defunding President Barack Obama’s health-care law before the House will agree to enact a stopgap government-funding measure.“Our goal here is not to shut down the government,” House Speaker John Boehner told reporters in Washington today. “Our goal is to cut spending and to stop Obamacare.”
Boehner said he wants to send a bill eliminating funds for the health-care law to the Senate and “force them to actually have a vote on getting rid of Obamacare.”
The move hasn’t yet received the backing of rank-and-file House Republicans, many of whom want to see a binding measure to eliminate funding for the Affordable Care Act. The House plan would allow a short-term spending measure to be enacted even if the Senate voted not to strip health-care funding.
Congressional leaders of both parties plan to meet Sept. 12 to discuss government funding and the U.S. debt ceiling, House members of both parties said following morning caucuses. Congress must enact a spending measure to keep the government operating beyond the end of September. The U.S. is projected to reach its debt limit in mid-October
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Representative Hal Rogers, a Kentucky Republican, said party leaders today will be assessing members’ support of the plan to pair the health-care and spending-bill votes. Rogers, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, said he supports the strategy because it satisfies members’ needs for up-or-down votes on health care and a spending bill.
‘We’ll See’
Asked whether it would have enough support to pass, Rogers said, “we’ll see.”
Via: Newsmax
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