Process? Do people who help our military veterans at tbe VA deserve to be treated like they are part of an abstract process?
How many hundreds of thousands of dedicated, hard wirking Americans must suffer for the insane, petty politics of the Tea Party whackos?
Irony is. -- The PPACA/Obamacare Healthcare Exchanges are now opening. Shame on this political game
Very nice.
Put it in an email and send it off to the entire Senate.
The GOP led House holds government workers hostage to a budget battle and you blame the Senate? In a more perfect world you would be horsewhipped.
You seem uninformed. Here. let me help.
Reid rejects House Republicans' offer to appoint funding conferees (Video) - The Hill - covering Congress, Politics, Political Campaigns and Capitol Hill | TheHill.com
Senate Democratic leaders shortly before midnight rejected a House Republican request to appoint conferees to negotiate a short-term government-funding bill.
The move made it all but certain there would be a government shutdown after midnight.
“We will not go to conference with a gun to our head,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said on the Senate floor.
“The first thing that the House has to do is pass a clean six-week [continuing resolution]. They have that before them,” Reid said. “If they do that then we’ll agree to work with Republicans on funding for the government for the remainder of the fiscal year.”
Less then two hours later, the House voted to go to conference and House Republicans named conferees......
........Reid said if House Republicans agree to extend government funding until Nov. 15, Senate Democrats will negotiate about funding for the rest of fiscal year 2014.
Reid called the proposal to negotiate an hour before the midnight deadline when government funding expires a “subterfuge to satisfy the Tea Party-driven Republicans.”
He argued there was no reason for Senate Democrats to begin negotiations only an hour before funding expired because there would be little prospect of reaching a deal in time.
He said the better course is for Republicans to accept the Senate-passed stopgap, which lasts until Nov. 15.
So, who exactly is making demands with a my way or the highway attitude? Who actually refused to negotiate a compromise and let the government shut down? Harry Reid.