Pennsylvania House GOP challenges Senate’s budget package

Republicans have reacted to those attacks by seeking to curb Syrian refugees and visa-free tourism to the U.S.

The likelihood of a weekend release for the most part disappeared Friday when House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., announced the House will come in next week on Tuesday, as was previously scheduled.

The second collapse of a budget deal in the past month left lawmakers, lobbyists and people in the education and social services communities wondering if the stalemate would stretch into 2016.

The process picked up momentum last week, particularly in the Republican-controlled Senate, which passed hundreds of pages of bipartisan spending bills along with major changes to charter school policy, the state’s two mammoth public-sector pension systems and the state-owned wine and liquor stores system. A short-term spending bill has been introduced, as lawmakers won’t be able to work through all their differences.

“I hope we can get a deal”.

“Forty-seven Democrats said they were for it, the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee says ISIS is exploiting it, and we’re not going to put it on the omnibus, but we may put in a special provision to help campaign finance for the political parties?”.

House Republicans have passed a $30.3 billion budget that they’d paid for with higher cigarette taxes and expanding casino gambling to Internet sites and off-track betting parlors.

Republicans said little in response.

Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said negotiators were down to about 40 riders after starting with 202.

No. 2 House Democratic leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland indicated on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” that Democrats could be open to bargaining on oil exports and gun violence research.

“If [the government’s] budget does not allow the CDC to compile that data, that information, so we can figure out how to more effectively address the public safety-requirements of the American people, then – I’m speaking for myself – it’s a budget not worth voting for”, Israel told reporters.

House minority leader Nancy Pelosi has called the move shocking and disgraceful.

Each side accused the other of issuing unreasonable demands blocking a final deal.

The tax bill could cost at least $100 billion or more over 10 years by extending dozens of mostly obscure tax cuts.

She said even if Democrats get indexing of the earned income and child tax credits, two priorities for her caucus, many of her members wouldn’t vote for the extenders package because it is too big.