As we endure the next weeks of the Congressional cage match over the debt ceiling, funding government, and destroying people's access to insurance, note how politicians and the media will spin talk of what they want to do to you and yours into some just-so morality fable.
Assumption was to use money from service agreement (SA) but this was not possible because the basket fund is based on ceiling funds allocated to the health facilities by the Ministry of Health" (PBF project staff; Health facility In-charge IDI 1; informants in group discussion 2).
And @drenwick110 proposed a way to kill two birds with one stone: Funnel all campaign contributions for 2012 into a new debt-ceiling fund.
But while the bill has almost no chance of passing on its own, it could spur lawmakers to include a new break for the super-rich in must-pass legislation later this year, when Congress will need to raise the debt ceiling or fund the government, particularly if the GOP is able to peel off a few dozen conservative Democrats to vote in favor of this week's bill.
The ceiling on funds was previously set at €89.5bn.
That includes demanding more from Democrats in exchange for raising the debt ceiling and funding the federal government in 2016.
Boehner, they claim, has betrayed conservatism by seeking legislative outcomes like lifting the debt ceiling or funding highways.
The deal to provide hurricane relief, while hiking the debt ceiling and funding the government for just three months, was indeed a gift to Democrats.
Reid wanted much more, worried that the two-month period will simply set up another colossal showdown that will also rope in the debt ceiling and funding for the government.
There's a chance Ryan's effort to listen to conservatives could end up being entirely fruitless, particularly if they simply turn on him when lawmakers have to take the other kind of tough vote -- one that, say, raises the debt ceiling or funds the government.
The short time frame for the debt ceiling-government funding issues had been disparaged by GOP leaders including House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis).
