One of the provisions of the new House bill John Boehner is planning to bring to a floor vote today would prohibit the Treasury Department from taking extraordinary measures to prevent government default the next time we approach a breach of the debt limit. Think about that for a minute.
We technically hit the debt limit this time around back in May, but the Treasury secretary has been juggling the books to delay the actual breach until this week. But House Republicans don’t want that kind of delay next time. They want the full hostage-taking pressure of an approaching debt limit breach to be unmitigated. Full steam ahead.
Supreme Court to hear new case on whether EPA exceeded its power in regulating greenhouse gas emissions from factories and power plants.
Rather than rolling over in the face of a (still emerging) bipartisan Senate deal, House Republicans are going to offer their own bill today. More soon on the particulars.
Late update: Here’s the early word on what the House GOP bill (perhaps best seen as a counteroffer to the Senate) will include.
That’s what we’re discussing now at The Hive (sub.req.).
The GOP put out a tweet this afternoon telling people to vote in the New Jersey special Senate election on the wrong day.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said this afternoon he shares Majority Leader Harry Reid’s optimism that a deal can be reached.
Harry Reid says he hopes to have a deal to end the shutdown and raise the debt ceiling before this afternoon’s meeting at the White House.
The man who wants to turn a tiny North Dakota town into an Aryan paradise has found some reinforcements. A white supremacist skinhead, his wife, and their five children have apparently moved to the town.