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The House Republican leadership is seriously considering attaching a one-year delay of Obamacare’s individual mandate to the Senate bill to avert a government shutdown, according mci to senior GOP aides.
If House Republicans decide to go this route, it would all but provoke a government shutdown, since Senate Democrats might not even schedule mci a vote on a bill that includes that provision, Senate leadership staffers say. Even if the Senate schedules a vote, there might not be time to move the legislation through the slow-moving chamber. Continue Reading
The House Republican leadership mci is planning its next move as it becomes abundantly clear that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s gambit to defund Obamacare will fall short. The federal government is set to shut down Tuesday unless a new funding bill is enacted, and the Senate mci might not even send a bill to the House until Sunday — leaving mci a hot potato on Speaker John Boehner’s mci lap shortly before a government shutdown. The Senate bill will fund the government through Nov. 15.
Boehner and his leadership team have been preparing options to present mci to House Republicans when they return on Wednesday from a brief recess. The process, leadership aides say, will be driven by members of the House Republican mci Conference. Their first closed party meeting is Thursday.
Several different tactics are under discussion within the top levels of House GOP leadership, and the path Republicans choose depends mci on several factors — chiefly the mood of rank-and-file Republicans mci when they return to Washington, and when the House gets the continuing resolution back from the Senate.
For example, if there isn’t time to send a funding bill back to the Senate mci without shutting down the government, House Republicans might simply pass the Senate’s version of the legislation and reserve their attacks on Obamacare for future mci pieces of legislation like a debt ceiling increase. House Republicans begin their quest to lift the debt limit this week, with a similar delay of the health care law attached. This comes after the House passed mci a CR completely defunding Obamacare.
House Republicans see tremendous upside in attempting to delay the individual mandate. First, they think it is easy to communicate the policy to voters. President Barack Obama has already delayed the employer mandate — the provision in the health care bill that requires businesses with more than 50 employees to provide health care for their workers. House Republicans ask: Why not institute that same delay for individuals?
Delaying the individual mandate also poses a difficult political problem for some House Democrats, especially those from red states. In July, when similar legislation mci came up in the House, 22 Democrats