Boehner ditches Plan B, admits he doesn’t have enough Republican support to pass it.
Boehner summons House Republicans for last-ditch conference meeting at 7:45 p.m. ET.
The House was scheduled to begin debating moments ago the core of Plan B: the Bush tax cut extensions. But, in another sign that Speaker Boehner doesn’t have the votes, the chamber recessed temporarily to buy more time to whip up votes. Stay tuned.
The latest estimate from the majority whip’s office is that the House will vote by 8:30 tonight on the crucial piece of John Boehner’s Plan B — a bill that would extend the Bush tax cuts for income up to $1 million.
Full background on that bill here, and the analysis in that piece pretty much still stands.
Except now a huge deal of uncertainty hangs over that vote. Read More
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Lautenberg issues a curt “back off, we’ll get to that next year” to Cory Booker.
We’ve consulted the Senate parliamentarian and this translate from Senate to English as: “I’m too busy being Senator right now to talk about this, hot dog.”
Conservative judge who sentenced Jared Loughner makes pleas for gun control.
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If I was still living in New Jersey, I’m not sure I’d support Cory Booker bum-rushing Frank Lautenberg out of the Senate.
Curious: would you?
I’m thinking the campaign platform might be: Dude, how you long do you expect me to be Mayor of Newark?
As of 9 a.m. ET today, FreedomWorks supported Speaker Boehner’s Plan B. But by 1:30 this afternoon, it was pulling the plug on its own support: “After review of the Boehner Plan B legislation, pending in the House today, FreedomWorks has found it must oppose the legislation, and will be urging House members to vote NO on the bill.”