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The bipartisan legislation by Reps. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., comes amid growing fears about a debt ceiling breach ahead of a June 1 deadline.
Abigail Spanberger is following up on her promise to try to block members of Congress from getting paid during a government shutdown.
Is this something we could see happen, at least the never have a shutdown act >> kevin mccarthy is a good man. but that seems to me to be a gimmick. the most important thing is we never hold hostage hard working public servants. >> do you want to legislate that >> we should take a hard look at making sure we don't pursue shutdowns as a means of trying to extract leverage, whether that's a democratic president or republican president >> let me go back on what i was trying to get at the republicans infamously had a speaker of the hou rule called the hastert rule, that referred to the idea of the...
Hr-4872, the end the shutdown act of 2018, a continuing resolution through tuesday that would immediately reopen the government while negotiations continue on a budget agreement that adhere to parity, reauthorizing the children's health insurance program and other critical health care programs, addressing the issue of d.r.e.a.m.ers as requested by the president of the united states and providing assistance to citizens impacted by natural disasters. >> as the minority whip must surely know, the time dedicated is for debate purposes only. >> that's steny hoyer, who you were listening to, calling...
Better position than they were a month ago and it showed that democrats have a pretty high advantage when it comes to a generic ballot that they would pick up some seats if the election were held today according to most observers. the good news for republicans. the election is still a year away and there is the thought and i think i'm one of the ones who agrees with this that this issue might not be front and center of voters' minds 12 months from now. of course, if you end up having another high wire shutdown act. another type of endangerment of possible default that could end up damaging the...