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Susan Davis and Gregory Korte, USA TODAY 10:01 a.m. EDT October 15, 2013
House Speaker John Boehner, accompanied by fellow House Republicans, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill on Oct. 10, 2013.(Photo: Susan Walsh, AP)
WASHINGTON -- As Senate Republicans and Democrats near a deal to raise the nation's debt limit and reopen the government, House Republicans said Tuesday they plan to pass a bill of their own.
Monday Senate leaders said they were close to a deal that would extend federal spending through January and raise the debt ceiling through February, but details were still in flux and a planned White House meeting to discuss the plan with President Obama was scrapped.
House GOP leaders have apparently decided not to wait for the Senate deal, telling rank-and-file members in a meeting this morning that they would pas their own measure with similar timelines but a few additional amendments to the president's signature health care law.
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said the House will vote today on a proposal similar to a bipartisan compromise emerging out of the Senate.
"We're very similar," he told reporters after leaving a GOP conference meeting at which members sang "Amazing Grace."
"But remember. The Senate doesn't have a bill. So being similar to a possible bill with another possible bill isn't saying anything."
And because the proposal has tax provisions -- elimination of the health care law's tax on medical devices -- the bill has to originate in the House under the Constitution, he said.
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Susan Davis and Gregory Korte, USA TODAY 10:01 a.m. EDT October 15, 2013
House Speaker John Boehner, accompanied by fellow House Republicans, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill on Oct. 10, 2013.(Photo: Susan Walsh, AP)
WASHINGTON -- As Senate Republicans and Democrats near a deal to raise the nation's debt limit and reopen the government, House Republicans said Tuesday they plan to pass a bill of their own.
Monday Senate leaders said they were close to a deal that would extend federal spending through January and raise the debt ceiling through February, but details were still in flux and a planned White House meeting to discuss the plan with President Obama was scrapped.
House GOP leaders have apparently decided not to wait for the Senate deal, telling rank-and-file members in a meeting this morning that they would pas their own measure with similar timelines but a few additional amendments to the president's signature health care law.
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said the House will vote today on a proposal similar to a bipartisan compromise emerging out of the Senate.
"We're very similar," he told reporters after leaving a GOP conference meeting at which members sang "Amazing Grace."
"But remember. The Senate doesn't have a bill. So being similar to a possible bill with another possible bill isn't saying anything."
And because the proposal has tax provisions -- elimination of the health care law's tax on medical devices -- the bill has to originate in the House under the Constitution, he said.
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