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Thursday, October 03, 2013

Boehner Tells Republicans He Won’t Let the Nation Default

With a budget deal still elusive and a deadline approaching on raising the debt ceiling, Speaker John A. Boehner has told colleagues that he is determined to prevent a federal default and is willing to pass a measure through a combination of Republican and Democratic votes, according to multiple House Republicans.

One lawmaker, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Mr. Boehner had indicated he would be willing to violate the so-called Hastert Rule if necessary to pass a debt-limit increase. The informal rule refers to a policy of not bringing to the floor any measure that does not have a majority of Republican votes.
 
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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

so in reality, he is caving in and giving obama bin laden his way?

way to go one party system...

Where the fuck is the armed revolt at? or are we waiting till we can't fight them until we have just rocks and sticks?

Anonymous said...

Stand he ground Bonehead

Anonymous said...

So right now there is 800,000 federal workers out on layoff which equals 16,000 workers per state.What can this many fed workers possibly do for me?

Anonymous said...

Global warming.

Obama Crooked Motors said...

Fire Harry Reed, Nancy Pelosi, Diane Feinstein, Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin. Then tell the rest of them If They Don't Pass the Balanced Budget They Don't Get Paid. Right now they enjoying their "shurdown" vacation and still getting paid minimum of 170,000/year. If there was a shutdown at our workplace would we be still getting paid? No.

Anonymous said...

If Reagan's biggest piece of legislation passed and the Democrats did this to try and stop it what would you all be saying then?

Anonymous said...

Let it shut down, Boner If you cave and fund Obamacare, the country will default anyway, so why not just get on with it?

Anonymous said...

The house of cards has to crash sooner or later, so get it over with. Let it happen now while the people can still defend themselves when it all collapses.