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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP Still Desperate For Unrelated Policy Measures In Exchange For Debt Limit Increase
GOP Still Desperate For Unrelated Policy Measures In Exchange For Debt Limit Increase
House Republicans aren't ready to raise the debt ceiling for nothing.
In their never-ending quest to get something in exchange for a debt limit increase, Republicans in the lower chamber are now considering a plan to attach two unrelated policy measures to a bill that would extend the nation's borrowing authority to 2015.
From the Wall Street Journal:
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew told House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) in a letter Friday that the U.S. will hit the debt ceiling on Feb. 27.
Republicans have been stymied thus far in their efforts to get policy concessions from Democrats in the debt ceiling negotiations.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/republicans-debt-ceiling
House Republicans aren't ready to raise the debt ceiling for nothing.
In their never-ending quest to get something in exchange for a debt limit increase, Republicans in the lower chamber are now considering a plan to attach two unrelated policy measures to a bill that would extend the nation's borrowing authority to 2015.
From the Wall Street Journal:
One measure would attach to the legislation a nine-month "doc fix," which would halt a Medicare payment reduction for doctors that is rooted in a 1997 budget law. The other would reverse a planned decrease in annual cost-of-living adjustments for military retirees still of working age.
Aides said Friday that leaders were deciding on their strategy, and could look to other policy ideas.
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew told House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) in a letter Friday that the U.S. will hit the debt ceiling on Feb. 27.
Republicans have been stymied thus far in their efforts to get policy concessions from Democrats in the debt ceiling negotiations.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/republicans-debt-ceiling
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GOP Still Desperate For Unrelated Policy Measures In Exchange For Debt Limit Increase (Original Post)
ProSense
Feb 2014
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ProSense
(116,464 posts)1. Notice anything
about what Republicans are reduced to demanding? They were the ones who forced the COLA change, and Democrats already proposed to reverse it.
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President Obama and Democratic lawmakers have long said they will not negotiate over the debt ceiling. Aside from that, a few Democrats, along with Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), have already proposed legislation to stop the pension cut. Then again, so have Republicans.
In an interview on Wednesday, Sanders insisted that raising the debt limit is not negotiable, adding that Congress has an obligation to pay the nations bills.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2014/02/06/military-pensions-and-boehners-debt-ceiling-idea/
President Obama and Democratic lawmakers have long said they will not negotiate over the debt ceiling. Aside from that, a few Democrats, along with Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), have already proposed legislation to stop the pension cut. Then again, so have Republicans.
In an interview on Wednesday, Sanders insisted that raising the debt limit is not negotiable, adding that Congress has an obligation to pay the nations bills.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2014/02/06/military-pensions-and-boehners-debt-ceiling-idea/
Senator Shaheen also introduced a bill. More here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024240453
spanone
(135,921 posts)2. republicans again holding america hostage