{"id":576818,"date":"2023-05-31T23:32:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T20:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/house-gets-debt-ceiling-bill-over-key-procedural-hurdle-with-democratic-help\/"},"modified":"2023-05-31T23:32:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T20:32:29","slug":"house-gets-debt-ceiling-bill-over-key-procedural-hurdle-with-democratic-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/house-gets-debt-ceiling-bill-over-key-procedural-hurdle-with-democratic-help\/","title":{"rendered":"#House gets debt ceiling bill over key procedural hurdle \u2014 with Democratic help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/mccarthykevin_053123gn11_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>House Republicans on Wednesday passed the rule governing debate on bipartisan legislation to lift the debt ceiling, a procedural hurdle that paves the way for final passage of the bill later in the day \u2014 but it took an emergency assist from Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roved the rule in a 241-187 vote just days before June 5,\u00a0the day Treasury Department Secretary Janet Yellen has said the U.S. could plunge into default if the borrowing limit is not raised.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>But the vote was not without a good deal of drama.<\/p>\n<p>And despite its passage, the vote highlights the tenuous hold that Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has over his restive conference, where many of the same conservatives who had opposed his Speakership in January reemerged on Wednesday to send a clear message that they think McCarthy betrayed his promises to hold the line on budget issues.<\/p>\n<p>While rules votes are typically a partisan, mundane and entirely predictable part of the legislative process, Wednesday\u2019s vote bucked all three trends when more than two dozen Republicans opposed\u00a0the measure as a last-gasp opportunity to defeat the underlying debt ceiling bill.<\/p>\n<p>And after hanging back, more than 50 Democrats bucked convention to deliver the last-minute votes to push the rule over the finish line.<\/p>\n<p>Before the vote closed, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) held up a green card in an apparent signal of approval for his members to change their votes and help Republicans pass the rule. Democratic members flooded the Well of the House to manually change their votes after voting electronically \u2014 though Jeffries remained a \u2018nay.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A number of the Democrats who ultimately voted for the rule are members of the Problem Solvers Caucus, a coalition of bipartisan lawmakers that prides itself on finding common ground.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWe were ready, we had the conversation earlier today \u2014 if necessary to be ready to activate and that\u2019s exactly what we did,\u201d Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.), a member of the caucus, told reporters after the rule vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI typically wouldn\u2019t vote for this type of rule,\u201d he later added. \u201cBut this is, as I said earlier, this is an extraordinary day, extraordinary measure and required extraordinary consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m opposed to the bill, I don\u2019t want the bill to advance, and so I\u2019d like for us to work on another bill that did more to try to help improve the country from a fiscal standpoint,\u201d Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) told The Hill on Tuesday night, explaining why he would oppose the rule.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), another vocal critic of the bill, took to the House floor Wednesday afternoon to encourage his colleagues to oppose the rule. Twenty-nine did just that, including GOP Reps. Good, Roy, Daniel Bishop (N.C.), and Matt Rosendale (Mont.), all of whom had initially opposed McCarthy\u2019s Speakership in January and expected him to hold the conservative line on issues of spending and deficits.<\/p>\n<p>Given Speaker Kevin McCarthy\u2019s (R-Calif.) thin House majority, 29 GOP defectors seemed like enough to kill the procedural bill \u2014 and gum up the whole process \u2014 because of an old House tradition that members of the minority party tend to oppose all rules, even when they support the underlying legislation. And heading into the vote, Democratic leaders suggested they would continue that tradition, despite their support for the Biden-backed debt-ceiling package.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very simple: The majority is responsible for passing the rule,\u201d Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.), the Democratic whip, told reporters in the Capitol on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Clark\u2019s office recommended that Democratic lawmakers vote against the rule.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Democratic leaders, in somewhat cryptic fashion, also vowed not to allow the country to default, forecasting the scenario that ultimately unfolded on the House floor, where 52 Democrats bucked routines and crossed the aisle to secure passage of the rule.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExtreme MAGA Republicans voted against House Republican leadership on a bill that they negotiated. That is stunning to me,\u201d Jeffries told reporters after the vote.\u00a0 \u201cAnd once again, House Democrats to the rescue to avoid a dangerous default and help House Republicans get legislation over the finish line.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Jeffries did not directly answer a question about whether Republicans promised anything in return for Democrats voting in favor of the rule.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy laughed when NBC <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alivitali\/status\/1664007453875290112?s=20\">asked<\/a> him about Jeffries waiting until the last minute to give Democrats the green light to vote for the rule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI probably would\u2019ve done the same thing,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cWell played.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The unconventional vote launched the debate on the debt ceiling package, negotiated between McCarthy and President Biden, which is scheduled for a final vote Wednesday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The proposal then moves to the Senate, where Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is fighting to pass it before week\u2019s end.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The debt limit bill \u2014 titled the Fiscal Accountability Act \u2014 came together after more than a week of high-stakes negotiations between emissaries tapped by Biden and McCarthy.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.house.gov\/billsthisweek\/20230529\/BILLS-118hrPIH-fiscalresponsibility.pdf\">legislation<\/a>, which stretches 99 pages, suspends the debt limit until Jan. 1, 2025, implements some spending caps over the next two years, beefs up work requirements for federal assistance programs and claws back billions of dollars of unspent COVID-19 funds, among other provisions.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s high-profile vote came after the House Rules Committee adopted the rule to govern debate over the debt limit measure Tuesday night, despite two Republicans breaking from their party and opposing it. Votes in the Rules Committee typically break along party lines, with the majority party supporting the rule and the minority party voting against it.<\/p>\n<p>But in a sign of protest against the debt limit bill, two Republicans on the panel \u2014 Roy and Rep. Ralph Norman (S.C.) \u2014 opposed the rule, putting the bill at risk of being blocked from advancing to the chamber for a vote. Roy and Norman had initially opposed McCarthy\u2019s Speakership, and both have been vocal critics of the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>The Roy-Norman revolt, however, came one vote short of blocking the bill. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), another conservative on the Rules panel, voted for the rule, resulting in a 7-6 vote in favor of advancing the measure and sending the rule to the floor for consideration.<\/p>\n<p><em>Updated at 5:28 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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