Spending bill is on track, but shutdown threat persists

The warning came ahead of a Senate procedural vote on the measure.

“This bill recognizes the indisputable fact that each of us, including each individual member of the U.S. Senate, was a living human being before we were born”, Hatch said. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, using congressional code.

“Well, there is a process that we, unfortunately, are becoming all too familiar with by which the government prepares…it is only prudent for the federal government to begin planning for the possibility that the government could shut down”, Earnest added. Notables such as presidential hopeful Sen.

Abortion has been a hot button issue in the public sphere and in Washington since the release of Planned Parenthood videos that claim the organization was selling fetal tissue for profit.

The savings of $520 million over ten years the federal government would see as a result of cutting off funding to the women’s health organization is dwarfed by the $650 million in government spending needed to supplant the disrupted services, including those addressing unwanted pregnancies.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., promised a government shutdown will not be pursued by Senate Republicans.

“The core of this capitulation comes from Republican leadership’s promise that ‘There will be no government shutdown.’ On its face, the promise sounds reasonable”. That clinic doesn’t receive Title X funding through the state and it wouldn’t be affected if the bill passed. I continue to be committed to protecting the lives of the unborn, and support the full investigation into Planned Parenthood’s activities.

While not invoking Planned Parenthood by name, the freshmen say they don’t want an “unnecessary and harmful” repeat of the 16-day shutdown that followed a 2013 bid to defund Obamacare. They miss the point, however, in that Trump and the other outsiders have the support of half the Republicans, but they do not have the support of a majority of Americans.

Eliminating federal funding to Planned Parenthood would “limit access” to healthcare for women, men, families and “disproportionately” affect low-income people, the OMB said. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., chairman of the Senate GOP’s campaign committee.

Ten of his first-term GOP colleagues agreed in their letter to fellow Republicans.

If events in the House and Senate go off the rails, the scene next Wednesday could be reminiscent of December 2010 when President Obama signed a three-day stopgap measure that averted a shutdown by mere hours and gave lawmakers more time to hammer out a final, catchall bill. They secretly filmed meetings with Planned Parenthood executives, discussing the details involved in collecting and delivering the tissue.

“If you forfeit before the game starts, you’re probably not going to win the game”, Rep. Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican and member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, said in an interview.