But all signs are that SpeakerBuy nike running shoes online John Boehner is making the Planned Parenthood funding cutoff a higher priority in the negotiations than the nine House-passed riders that defund all or part of the health care law. It’s not that he has given up on the defunding riders — it’s just that Planned Parenthood seems to be higher on his list.
If he’s looking for guidance from rank-and-file Republicans on which one is more important, he’s not likely to find it.
“You’re going to find some people who gravitate toward one and some who gravitate toward the other. I think they’re both important,” said Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas), who sponsored an amendment to the House-passed continuing resolution that would defund the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight.
Rep. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), a freshman who sponsored a rider that would cut off payments to HHS employees to implement health insurance exchanges, may be willing to give Boehner a bit more room to drop both sets of riders. He said his top priority isn’t either abortion or health care defunding. It’s spending cuts. nike mens acg sandals 2011
“We’ll continue to work on reining in 'Obamacare' … Those efforts are ongoing, and we’ll continue to do more,” Gardner said. “But right now, we’ve got to cut spending.”
Publicly, other members of the leadership aren’t about to make a choice. House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, when asked which issue is more important, said about the only thing he could say: “We’re not going to negotiate with ourselves.”
In the meantime, the House Republican leadership is trying to do everything it can to give its members other chances to vote on both issues.
The short-term C.R. the House passed Thursday — which Obama says he’d veto — includes a ban on fundingbuy Reebok ZigTech for abortions in the District of Columbia. “It wasn’t everything they wanted on Planned Parenthood, but it’s something,” Burgess said. The House was also preparing to take up a separate bill to put more restrictions on federal funding of abortions, although that was postponed because House GOP leaders are putting all of their focus into avoiding a government shutdown, according to a leadership aide.
And next week, the House might begin to take up some of the bills to cut off mandatory funding for the health care law. Two of the measures approved by the Energy and Commerce Committee earlier this week — one targeting exchanges, the other shutting down the law’s Prevention and Public Health Fund — now appear on the Rules Committee schedule and are likely candidates.
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