House Republicans’ Fiscal Plan Collapses

BREAKING NEWS Tuesday, October 15, 2013 11:38 AM EDT

House Republicans’ Fiscal Plan Collapses House Republican leaders struggled on Tuesday to craft a new proposal to re-open the government and alter parts of the president’s health care law after a plan presented behind closed doors to the Republican rank-and-file failed to attract enough support immediately to pass. After more than two hours, Republican leaders walked back from a plan that had emerged this morning. Speaker John A. Boehner told reporters there are “no decisions about what exactly we will do.” “We’re trying to find a way forward in a bipartisan way that would continue to provide fairness to the American people under Obamacare,” he said, but acknowledged “there are a lot of opinions” among his fractious troops. READ MORE » http://www.nytimes.com/news/fiscal-crisis/2013/10/15/republican-leaders-back-off-new-plan/?emc=edit_na_20131015 BREAKING NEWS Tuesday, October 15, 2013 10:07 AM EDT House Outlines Alternative to Senate Deal on Spending and Debt Limit House Republicans on Tuesday put forward the outline of a response to a Senate proposal that would end the government shutdown and raise the debt limit into next year, but would also make some changes to the health care law. Under their plan, members of Congress and the cabinet would be compelled to obtain health care coverage through the Affordable Care Act, often called Obamacare, but would not receive the employer subsidy from the government. Further, the deal would suspend a medical device tax for two years, something that was dropped from a Senate compromise in the making. The plan would reopen the government with a spending plan that would last through Jan. 15th and increase the debt limit through the beginning of February. READ MORE » http://www.nytimes.com/news/fiscal-crisis/2013/10/15/house-outlines-plan-on-spending-and-debt-limit/?hp=&emc=edit_na_20131015