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Published on Tuesday, 01 October 2013 04:46

Shutdown: Hundreds of Thousands will

Go without Pay

(Daily Mail By DAVID MARTOSKO) -- The federal

government shut down for the first time in 17 years last

night.

Lawmakers in the Democrat-controlled Senate and

Republican-controlled Congress failed to pass a budget

allowing for the federal government to continue to be

funded as it headed into the new fiscal year at midnight.

Late-night negotiations ended in deadlock after the Senate

Democrats refused to consider any version of the budgetthat included changes to President Obama's signature

health care law.

This lack of compromise means that nearly a million

federal workers will go on unpaid leave until the two

legislative bodies come to an agreement.

As the zero-hour drew closer on Monday, with other

avenues exhausted, the White House's Office of

Management and Budget told federal agencies that they

'should now execute plans for an orderly shutdown due to

the absence ofappropriations.'

House Republican leaders on the Rules Committee had

discussed the procedures for both parties to appoint

'conferees' negotiating representatives for a joint

House-Senate conference committee empowered to hash

out a compromise of the budget battle that has consumed

Washington for days.

The House GOP scrambled all day to avoid being the party

without a chair when the shutdown music stops and the

federal government moves to a new fiscal year withoutmoney to spend.

Republicans have been insisting that a Continuing

Resolution funding the federal government a 'CR,' in

Capitol Hill-speak must include language defunding,

delaying or otherwise changing the Affordable Care Act,

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President Obama's signature health care legislation.

Democratic Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid had said

hours earlier that House GOP members had 'lost their

minds.' That barb followed the House's decision to send its

third such budget proposal to the Senate one that

everyone in Washington understood would be dead on

arrival.

'They keep trying to do the same thing over and over

again,' Reid said on the Senate floor. 'The Senate will vote

it down and the House Republicans will be in the same

pickle theyre in now, but even with less time before the

government shuts down.'

But Reid also said on the floor earlier in the day that he

would welcome a conference committee. He qualified that

after 11:00 p.m., saying that only a continuing resolution a

'CR,' in Capitol Hill-speak free from Obamacare politics

would pass muster.

'We will not go to conference until we get a "clean" CR,' he

said.

Debate in the House continued long after the clock struck

twelve, with Democrats demanding an up-or-down vote on

the Senate's version.

The Senate, meanwhile, recessed until 9:30 a.m. Reid said

Democrats expect to see the final funding bi ll from the

house then, along with the formal request for a conference.

He also said neither has a chance of being debated or

voted on.

'When we receive that message from the House ... Ill make

a motion to table it,' he said.

The House passed that measure by a 228-199 vote around

1:00 a.m., officially 'insisting' that its Obamacare-related

amendments should be adopted in the Senate, and

requesting the conference committee.

The real death-knell for House GOP efforts, however, came

at 11:45 p.m. when New York Rep. Louise Slaughter, the

top Democrat on the rules committee, said she wouldn't

support such a conference.

Conference committees, she said, should be reserved for

ironing out minor differences in competing versions of

legislation that both the House and Senate had already

passed.

And 'it's too late now,' Slaughter added, looking at the

clock in the House chamber.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor tweeted before 11:00

p.m. that the GOP's final attempt at a resolution would be 'a

motion insisting on our last amendment and request a

conference with the Senate.'



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That amendment came hours earlier, as the GOP-led

House passed its third failed attempt at a stopgap budget

resolution. Their legislative language sought to delay for a

year the Obamacare law's so-called 'individual mandate'

that forces Americans to buy health insurance or pay a

penalty.

Earlier in the day, Republicans had also sought to close a

loophole that subsidizes 75 per cent of the resulting costs

for members of Congress, their staffers, and White House

aides, and to repeal an unpopular medical device tax.

Twelve Republicans defected from their party in the 228-

201 vote, including a handful of moderates who have

grown weary of the budget squabbles and some

conservatives who don't believe the House GOP's position

is strict enough.

As Washington-watchers had seen twice already, the

Senate quickly 'tabled' disregarded the proposition on

a 56-44 party-line tally, leaving a few hours for the House

GOP to start the dance all over again before the clock

strikes twelve.

House Republicans' strategy has been to make Senate

Democrats look like an intransigent 'party of "no," forcing

them to either act or face at least part of the blame for the

first government shutdown since the 1995-1996 fiscal year.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky

Republican seen as a moderate foil to fire-breathing tea

partiers like Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, said Monday evening

after the Senate's third consecutive dismissal of a House

proposal that 'Americans don't want a government

shutdown and they don't want Obamacare. But Senate

Democrats have once again blocked a House-passed bill

to keep the government open while protecting Americans

from the consequences of Obamacare.'

'Unfortunately,' he added, 'Senate Democrats have made i t

perfectly clear that theyd rather shut down the federal

government than accept even the most reasonable

changes to Obamacare. Its past time that Democrat

leaders listen to the American people and act.'

Cruz, who spearheaded a marathon quasi-filibuster last

week on the Senate floor marked with absolutist pitches for

'no compromise,' seemed to soften that stance Monday

afternoon by hoping out loud for Senate approval of a

watered-down GOP proposal from the House.'If the House of Representatives acts tonight,' he said, 'I

believe this Senate should come back immediately and

pass ... whatever the House passes. I don't know what it will

be, but it will be yet another good faith effort to keep the

government running and to address the train wreck of a law

that is Obamacare.'

President Barack Obama castigated the Republicans on

Monday afternoon, saying they aimed to 'extract a ransom'

from the White House as a condition of continuing to fund

his administration past midnight, when the federal

government's fiscal year ends.

Maintaining their leverage by insisting on changes to theObamacare law as a condition of writing a new series of

checks, he said 'would throw a wrench into the gears of our

economy.'

The federal government is America's largest employer,'

Obama reminded reporters at the White House, cataloging



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whose tea party House caucus has held moderates in line

by refusing to back what Senate Democrats have called a

'clean' spending resolution one that doesn't involve

changes to the Affordable Care Act, Obama's signature

health insurance overhaul law.

The federal government has shut down 17 times since the

end of the Gerald Ford presidency many of them when

Democrats in Congress strong-armed Republican

President Ronald Reagan but the 24-hour news cycle

and online social media have made this year's budget

brinksmanship especially toxic.

Club For Growth, an influential conservative political group,

immediately renewed its call for House members to

support Republicans' plan instead.

After several successive drafts interrupted by a 2:30 p.m.

rejection from the Senate, the GOP's proposal sought a

one-year delay in the Obamacare law's 'individual

mandate' to buy health insurance, and a measure forcing

members of Congress and their staffs to forgo insurance

subsidies that ordinary taxpayers won't receive.

Earlier in the day, Republicans dispensed with plans to

demand a one-year implementation delay in the entire

Obamacare law, along with the repeal of a new 2.3 per

cent medical device tax.

Senate Democrats said Monday afternoon that they

wouldn't support that tax repeal, although a similar measure

won the backing of 79 out of 100 senators earlier this year.

Tea party partisans on the Republican Party's right wing

had said since before the Obamacare law passed

Supreme Court muster that it will have unintended negative

consequences on the economy, and that it's an

unconstitutional attempt to force Americans to buy a

service health insurance that they may not want.

Jenny Beth Martin, National Coordinator for the Tea Party

Patriots, said Monday in an emphatic statement that

members of Congress should 'do your duty and protect the

American public from this catastrophic law! ... Obamacare

is not ready! Big labor, big government, and big business

all know this and have already asked for exemption from

this disaster.'

'You are the duly elected Representatives let the Senate

know that a delay of the entire law is absolutely necessary,

and fair.'Obama also assured Americans on Monday that no matter

what happens, a government shutdown won't affect the

planned Oct. 1 rollout of Obamacare's state-level health

insurance exchanges.

'You can't shut it down,' he said, claiming that the law is

'already providing benefits to millions of Americans.'

'You don't get to extract a ransom just for doing your job.'

Senate Democrats have maintained that their Republican

counterparts in the House are radicals, bent on forcing the

White House into a needless surrender on a health

insurance law that has been passed on party-line votes and

approved by the Supreme Court.'We have just tabled the radical bill that the House sent

over to us. It was deliberately designed to be politically

provocative,' Maryland Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski

said in a statement. 'Continuing Resolutions have always

been about disputes over money. They were not about



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Send

political, ideological viewpoints over past legislation.'

But most House Republicans stuck to their guns, even as

some news reports depicted a GOP in turmoil with a group

of moderates encouraging conservatives to give up their

fight.

'Senate Democrats have a clear choice: Protect special

treatment for themselves and the politically connected, or

shut down the government,' Texas Republican Rep. Kevin

Brady said. 'I hope they put Americas middle class ahead

of their own privileged class.

'Obamacare isnt ready for families, patients and workers,'

he claimed. 'Why dont they get the same one-year waiver

others have gotten? I hope the Senate doesnt protect the

politically connected and needlessly shut down the

government.'

Brady's statement said the White House has

acknowledged a host of implementation problems with the

Affordable Care Act which could be fixed given a year-long

delay.

As he has in recent weeks, Obama emphasized the value

of low-cost health insurance plans, without noting that those

policies' high deductibles can make a patient's out-of-

pocket medical costs dwarf the policy's official price tag.

The president said Republicans were 'sacrific[ing] the

health care of millions of Americans' by refusing to endorse

the plan advanced by Senate Democrats.

He also hinted at his preference for a long-term solution,

instead of stopgap measures that some Republicans have

suggested publicly.

'Does anybody truly believe we won't have this fight again

in a few more months?' Obama asked. 'Even atChristmas?'

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