Subject: Re: House GOP Will Trade Debt Deal for Reversing Pension Cut
From: <[email-masked]>
To: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 11:37:54 -0500

Here's what will happen. They won't get enough tea partiers for that, so Boehner will have to ask Pelosi to have the Ds carry a clean debt limit increase bc he can't even get half his caucus to increase it. I hope she tells him to shove it and act like a Speaker for once. 

ASM

> On Feb 11, 2014, at 11:31 AM, Eric Schwerin <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> These guys are unbelievable.   Are they really going to get GOP House members to vote on the record for a debt ceiling increase in exchange for INCREASED spending?
> 
> House GOP Will Trade Debt Deal for Reversing Pension Cut
> "The House is likely to vote Wednesday on a plan to extend the government's borrowing authority into 2015 in exchange for reversing a cut to the pensions of working-age military veterans that Congress approved just two months ago to try to trim the budget deficit," theNew York Times reports.
> 
> "The plan, presented to House Republicans on Monday evening by their leaders, represents a dramatic reversal for the House after three years of using the debt ceiling to extract major spending cuts and conservative policy changes. In this instance, the debt ceiling deadline -- looming at the end of this month -- will be used to reverse the only difficult spending cut included in a budget and deficit-reduction deal reached in December."
> 
> Roll Call: "The deal remains tenuous, however, as leaders will still have to round up a large swath of support from the Republican Conference."
> 
> 
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