Shutdown? House votes to reject short-term spending measure
By Russell Berman and Pete Kasperowicz - 09/21/11 08:53 PM ET
The defeat hands leverage to congressional Democrats in a dispute over federal disaster funding. Democratic leaders objected to a GOP provision cutting funding from a Department of Energy manufacturing loan program to offset additional money for disaster relief.
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The House stunned Republican leaders Wednesday by rejecting a temporary spending bill that would have funded the government through Nov. 18.
The vote failed, 195-230, after Democrats pulled their support for the bill and Republican leaders were forced to scramble for enough votes entirely within their own ranks. Four dozen conservatives voted against the bill because it left spending levels for 2012 higher than the cap set in the House GOP budget.
The defeat hands leverage to congressional Democrats in a dispute over federal disaster funding. Democratic leaders objected to a GOP provision cutting funding from a Department of Energy manufacturing loan program to offset additional money for disaster relief.
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House looks to take another crack at continuing resolution Thursday
By Pete Kasperowicz - 09/21/11 07:34 PM ET
House Republicans appeared to be preparing to take another shot at passing a continuing spending resolution on Thursday after members rejected a bill Wednesday that Democrats thought didn't offer enough disaster relief, and many Republicans thought didn't cut enough spending.
The House Rules Committee scheduled an "emergency" meeting on Wednesday night to approve a rule that would allow the House to consider a rule for legislation on the same day it is approved by the committee. Normally, rules for legislation are only considered on the House floor the day after being approved by committee.
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THREAT OF GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN INTENSIFIES
by Chad Pergram | September 22, 2011
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) strolled from the floor to his office shortly after noontime Wednesday. A cool confidence serves as Boehner's calling card. And if the Ohio Republican was nervous about Wednesday's vote to prevent a government shutdown, he certainly didn't show it as he walked through Statuary Hall and turned left at his office suite near the Rotunda.
Boehner's confidence aside, uncertainty gripped the Capitol for the better part of 24 hours as House Republicans prepared to debate a stopgap spending measure (known as a CR, short for "Continuing Resolution") and disaster aid package crafted to avert a government closure at the end of the month. The problem was that no one was quite sure where Republicans might conjure the votes to pass the bill. After all, the Republican whip operation anticipated it could lose 50 to 60 of its own members on this vote. That figure aligns with the number of defections from conservative and tea party-backed lawmakers when the House voted to prevent government closures earlier this year. 53 Republicans bolted on a March vote. The number climbed to 59 in April.
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