10/12/13
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/12/negotiations-stall-on-capitol-hill-house-leaves-collins-plan-in-serious-doubt/
A new plan was presented by Maine GOP Sen. Susan Collins was presented today (Saturday) and was rejected. Her plan would have funded the government for six months and increase the federal debt limit through January. She also had proposed a two-year delay on the medicinal device tax and income verification for those seeking subsidies for Obamacare. It was supposedly rejected because the $967 billion budget was too low. This means that any hope for a deal can only come as soon as Tuesday. Jabs are continuing to go back and forth with Republicans saying President Obama won't talk and Eric Cantor is the only one who can propose a way to open the government back up. So we still have no deal and no open government.
Another deal was proposed but there seemed to be no agreement even close to being made. One positive note that was made in the article was that Senate Majority leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnel continue to have an open dialogue and discuss about what needs to be done. One thing that the Republicans do not seem to want to give in on is the medicinal device tax. I, personally, have done a lot of research on this but I wonder what the cons are to this tax. I know that its purpose is to fund Obamacare, but is that the only reason that there is such a negative response towards it? I will need to do some more research because I wonder if the Republicans will budge on this part of the deal.
I personally think that Susan Collins deal should have pleased both parties. Republicans delay Obamacare in a way, and Democrats get Obamacare running. But I guess the Republicans think that Obamacare is very destructive. They don't want to see it running even if it is for only 6 months. Republicans also don't want to look weak because on the outside it looks like this deal favors Democrats more than the GOP. It's a very difficult situation, but we're going to have to compromise sometime, right?
ReplyDeleteThere have also been discussions and arguments that the Republicans were overreaching with their deals and compromising in the beginning but now it has flipped and the Democrats are wanting too much.
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