House passes 6-month stopgap government funding plan

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49025898/ns/politics-capitol_hill/#.UFLEL1HsYTA

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved a stopgap measure to fund the government for six months and eliminate any threat of a government shutdown fight that could damage lawmakers' re-election hopes.

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Wouldn't want to damage those hopes, right?

New plan on defense cuts
House Republicans Tuesday took another stab Tuesday at avoiding the automatic cuts for defense, passing a bill that orders President Barack Obama to submit a plan to protect military spending by October 15 without any revenue increases.

The measure, approved on a party line vote of 223-196, faces certain death in the U.S. Senate and has drawn a veto threat from the White House.

Republicans in the House passed a similar sequester avoidance plan in May. Authored by Representative Paul Ryan, now the Republican vice presidential nominee, it attempted to halt the cuts and protect military budgets by substituting deep cuts to programs that aid the poor, including food stamps and Medicaid healthcare.

In a surprise reconciliation move, the White House responded by issuing an executive order requiring each representative from the House to produce a wad of 1,000,000,000 one dollar bills from his/her ... uh, you know, that little orifice in his/her backside and give them to the Secretary of the Treasury after appropriate sanitary efforts.

Great to see this level of cooperation between the political parties. Seems like they're on the correct track... certainly not the rigth track.

POC