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House Passes Three-Month Debt Limit Extension

Jan. 23, 2013 1:31pm Becket Adams

The U.S. House of Representative voted 285-144 on Wednesday to authorize a three-month increase in the nation’s debt limit, giving the U.S. Senate even more time to come up with a budget.

The House has passed #NoBudgetNoPay in a 285-144 vote.

— Eric Cantor (@GOPLeader) January 23, 2013

Included in the bill, dubbed “No Budget, No Pay,” is a provision that halts all paychecks to U.S. lawmakers’ if they fail to come up with a budget plan on time.

Shortly after the bill cleared the House, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) assured members of the press that it would also pass the senate. Once the bill passes the senate, it will make its way to President Obama’s desk.

“The measure would suspend the $16.4 trillion cap on federal borrowing and reset it on May 19 to reflect the additional borrowing required between the date the bill becomes law and then,” the Associated Press notes.

“The amount of borrowing required depends on the tax receipts received during filing season, but over a comparable period last year the government ran deficits in the range of $150 billion,” the report adds.

House Republicans hailed the bill’s passage.

“Balancing the budget over the next 10 years means that we save the future for our kids and our grandkids,” said House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). “It also means that we strengthen programs like Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid that can’t continue to exist in their current form without some kind of controls.”

However, not all House Republicans were for the bill. Among those who voted against it were Reps. Bachmann, Steve King, Broun, Yoho, Stockman, Amash, and Massie .

Can duly kicked.

— daveweigel (@daveweigel) January 23, 2013

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Tigress1
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:21pm
For once I agreed with Nancy Pelosi and Obama. Pelosi said that the deal where if the Senate doesn’t pass a budget they don’t get paid is just a gimmick.I agree. It is just a gimmick. The Senate should get FIRED if they don’t pass a budget! Most of us if we do not do our work do not simply forgo our paychecks until the work is completed – WE GET FIRED!

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- termyt
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:25pm
  It’s not even that much of a gimmick. They don’t lose their pay, it goes into escrow. They will eventually get every dime of it.
  
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- Gold Coin & Economic News
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:33pm
  Really you Republican wussies, you want to just kick the can down the road and go through this crap again in 3 months? You want Obama to tell Boehner again that we don’t have a spending problem? What the he** is wrong with you guys?
  http://www.isthatbaloney.com/stunning-obama-statement-to-boehner-we-dont-have-a-spending-problem/
  
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- macpappy
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:39pm
  You don’t fire the Senate, you vote them out. So, vote them out…..How did your Senator vote?
  
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- toiletclogga
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:45pm
  It is a gimmick. The people in Congress have money coming out of their wazoo! If they were serious, it would be no government checks PERIOD! This would include Social Security, Disability and Welfare payments!
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:51pm
  Doesn’t the Senate have to agree to this? Who says the pay thing isn’t simply stripped out in conference?
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 3:03pm
  Do you think the reason for them passing such a short extension is because they know this country could fall apart any day now?
  
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- justangry
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 3:08pm
  @Soy, Have you seen the vote yet? If so please link. I’d like to know how our favorite Republicans voted.
  
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- Tigress1
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 3:16pm
  Macpappy, Yes, we fire them through elections. How about a special election and fire them early? They obviously refuse to do the jobs that they were hired to do. Yeah, a special election might cost a lot, but we are losing BILLIONS of dollars every single day by their inaction! These people are making money in other ways besides simply their Senate job. Threatening them with their paycheck means nothing. Threatening them with losing their power might get their attention.
  
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- marybethelizabeth
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 3:20pm
  The gimmick is the lie that a budget hasn’t been passed. It’s not true that the senate hasn’t passed a budget in X number of years, x being a variable dependent on who is telling the lie.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 3:22pm
  @Just
  I cant find the vote breakdown. Only 33 republicans are reported to vote “no” on this thing. Ironically, 144 democrats voted ‘no”……which makes me wonder why so many republicans voted “yes”…..
  
  http://news.yahoo.com/debt-limit-extension-bill-moves-vote-house-165507643–business.html
  
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- Rogue
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 3:27pm
  In other news, hundreds of GOP reps simultaneously sprained their wrists trying to pat themselves on the back.
  
  3 month extension equals about, what, $250 Billion in new debt? Well done, GOP. I’d ask you to stand up and take a bow, but that requires a spine.
  
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- Strasser
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:06pm
  Yes, they’ll get every dime even if they don’t pass a budget–thanks to the 27th Amendment. There’s even language in the bill stating precisely that.
  
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thibx
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:21pm
watch oboma print new money on his on request and watch him spend it.

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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:16pm
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Chicken S^%#’s not a **** among them…………

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BehindTheMouth
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:12pm
Well guess I’m leaving the RINO party now.

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:53pm
  What do you expect….The republican voters nominated a moderate flip-flopper and got chills up their legs from the guy who proposed balancing the budget in the next 15 years (Paul Ryan)…..If you were the republican establishment – all indications are that the situation is normal.
  
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shorelineliz
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:08pm
@Gonzo: Really? Did he say 10 years? If I don’t balance my budget every two weeks I tank! This Congress is out of control! Someone take the checkbook away! Oh, I forgot! There is NO MONEY in it! Bounce. Bounce. Bounce. (sound of Government checks being cashed). Fake money. Phony people.

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progressiveslayer
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:05pm
The candy@sses in congress are so courageous eh? Let’s give a big round of applause for the idiots.
They can’t demand real spending cuts because they’re too busy rearranging the chairs on the deck of the titanic.

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- BODYBAG
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:46pm
  Integrity is dead. As is Character.
  If not completely dead then certainly nearing extinction.
  
  As Mil-Dot has said here before —– the matter is now beyond the voting booth.
  Those who talk about changing things with “the next election” are living in fantasy land.
  The reset is going to be grusome. Be prepared.
  
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shorelineliz
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:05pm
The only thing that just happened is they voted themselves and everyone else three more months of Government paychecks. These people are vacuous greedy idiots incapable of leading anyone. This is a joke.

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:04pm
Here we go once again, I wonder what Reid and Obama will seek to gain from this in the long run goal they have for crushing the nation into communism?

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term limits for congress
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:02pm
dirty harry will not allow a vote on this bill, so who cares? The senate will come up with their own debt limit increase without the hook and the house will pass it. dirty harry will never submit a budget because it will show all of the out-of-control spending that is happening and the budget will show a huge defecit. It is best for no one to know because it allows them to claim ignorance when the SHTF.

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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:01pm
If I was Clint Eastwood, I would make a public service announcement, just like President Obama, and say, take time to be a dad, make a budget? Maybe a couple of sentences of how interest rates could finance foreign armies and put TMZ fans in the DMZ zone?

Don’t over do it with humor, make it simple, make it stick?

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toiletclogga
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:57pm
News! The Senate has no intention of passing a budget. Budgets are a vehicle of restraint. Fiscal sanity is the enemy of the modern Democrat party!

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Penn
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:51pm
Never before have so many been so screwed by so incompetent a group of govmint officals..

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- BODYBAG
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:02pm
  In a current country where people voice their true positions, then quickly issue public “apologies” because they are immediately vilified by the left —- Phil Mickleson is one of the latest examples —–
  
  I see the statement here and elsewhere “God Help Us”
  
  I tell you this —–
  If you are not willing to stand and defend your position in the face of adversity
  then why should God ?
  
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- Polarized America
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:03pm
  i know,…..everyday i wake up and i’m a day older but when it comes to Gov’t, the Media etc. their getting younger …i’d say they’re about 13yrs old now …
  
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Witness1974
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:47pm
I wish I was a testicle salesman in D.C. They are in very short supply.

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- hatchetjob
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:50pm
  True, but testicles won’t work without testosterone. Sell some of that too.
  
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- hauschild
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:53pm
  Yeah, but neither of those two things mean squat without a spine, so add that to the top of the list.
  
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BUCKFECK
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:46pm
Typical selfish republicans want this country to crash just as long as it benefits them.

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- Gonzo
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:53pm
  Yea, no kidding. It’s not like $20 or $22 trillion of debt could ever cause the “country to crash”! Those whacky conservatives. Hey, let’s go watch the new Psy video and compare tattoos!
  
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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:46pm
That’s good– When the budget comes due maybe people will pay attention. Including those that are on benefits, who will be getting benefit cuts because of obama rampant overspending and crony Capitalism gifts to his donors. Benefit money only gets cut BECAUSE OBAMA HAS AND CONTINUES TO SPEND IT ELSEWHERE – where it is not to be spent. That should be the core argument. Obama will day it’s foreign aid and wars- But they are HIS wars.

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hauschild
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:46pm
This is getting downright comical; as the masses of lemmings continue to remain at the edge of their seats in anticipation.

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Too_Far_Gone
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:45pm
They are just buying time to get things in place for themselves before islama pulls the plug at the bottom of the pool ..

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AvengerK
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:43pm
“giving the senate a little more time to come up with a budget”…LOL…now THAT’s comedy.

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gyro
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:42pm
was watching cnn this got 15 seconds of their time

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Carrie3570
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:41pm
“giving the U.S. Senate a little more time to come up with a budget.”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! How much time do they need?

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Al J Zira
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:40pm
Waiting for a budget from the Senate, one might be dead before that happens.

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moreteaplease
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:39pm
“….giving the U.S. Senate a little more time to come up with a budget.”
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….or find a way around coming up with a budget.

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civilwarcometh
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:39pm
We all new this was going to happen just as we all know what is going to happen in 3 month’s. Distraction’s from what is really going on. So tired of this BS.

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LOJ
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:38pm
Demand that the spending gets cut after a short extension….or we are on the road to financial collapse….Don’t allow this irresponsible open check book to continue that is taking us to Greece to continue without checks and balances…its vital.

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justangry
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:36pm
Whew that was close. Maybe we can balance the budget in 3 mos… Sigh

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- Gonzo
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:45pm
  Hardee har har, even “fiscal hawk” Paul Ryan says we need 10 years to balance the budget. Wouldn’t every business you know of go belly up if it took 10 years to balance their budget?
  
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