Were going to continue to work with our members on both sides of the aisle to try to make sure theres no issue of default and get our government reopened. His deputy eric cantor stressed the importance of fairness in any deal. We also, though, as the House Republican conference think is very, very important for us to stress in whatever proposal we move forward will reflect our position on fairness. To the House Republicans fairness looks Something Like this. Their bill will reportedly include twoyear delay of medical device tax and prohibit members of congress and members of the president s cabinet from receiving subsidies for the Nations Health care law. It will eliminate Health Insurance protections for labor unions which are outlined in the senate bill. And it would prevent the treasury from using extraordinary measures to extend the debt limit. You know, just in case we get into this mess again. The House Republican meeting reportedly began with all members joining together to sing
Others on the hill with a rewrite of the 96 act and one of the principle things we wanted to do was to be able to plan. I think you guys gave us 110 rulemaking said we had to do roughly in 18 months so we were doing an awful lot of planning and that just got eliminated which meant when we came back to work we were all working double time to try to catch up. Host were deadlines extended . Guest the deadlines in terms of the fcc were extended obviously for certain kinds of filings. But you know the most critical thing was congress didnt give us any slack and i dont think they shouldve let me pass the bill a couple of months later and said you get these things done in six months and these then 12 months and these in 18 months. It took an awful lot of work an awful or portability an awful or portability than we were able to meet up with deadlines. If we had a shutdown the middle of that there is no way we could have done it a luck its just a lot of extra work and if you were to take a busi
As well as cspan radio. Thomas donahue said his organization has not made a decision about challenging democrats in 2014. This is event is hosted by the Christian Science monitor. Its an hour. Thanks for coming. Bruce johnston, the chambers executive Vice President of governmental affairs. The chamber is the world not for profit business. We welcome him back. Mr. Donahue led the chamber since 1997. He served for 13 years as president and chief executive officer of the American Trucking Association Prior to his tour at the a. T. A. , he was group Vice President for the chamber for eight years. In an earlier chapter of his life, he was postmaster general and Vice President for connecticut spearfield university. Hes a new york native and has a bachelors degree from st. Johns university and an mba from adele fie. Hes the government and Senior Political Affairs executive. Started as a telemarketer in 1974. Came to the organization quick for a rapid rise with a degree from harvard. He overse
The 18 no votes were all republican no votes. All of the Senate Republicans voted in favor of ending the crisis. That is not true in the house. Democrats voted yes as a bloc, unanimous on the idea that the u. S. Should not the fault and the government should reopen. Most of them voted no on that. Most republicans in the house wanted to blow past the debt ceiling and keep the shutdown going. They wanted that by almost 21. What this means is that john boehner pass this bill without the support of his own members, his own Republican Caucus. Thanks to all the democrats and to the minority of his caucus who did support him in this vote, we did finally bring about the end to this selfimposed National Crisis tonight. President obama is expected to sign the bill right away, as and basically now. After that, the government will reopen its self after this long and painful shut down. The office of management and budget is expecting employees to return to work in the morning, as in thursday mornin
Democr democrats and republicans in the house still have an important vote to take. But i want to thank the leaders of both houses for getting an agreement. Once this comes to my desk, i will sign it immediately. And well reopen of our government, and we can begin to lift this cloud from our businesses and from the American People. Ill have more to say about this tomorrow. And i have some thoughts about how we can move forward in the remainder of the year, and stay focused on the job at hand. Because there is a lot of work ahead of us, including our need to earn back the trust of the American People that has been lost over the last few weeks. And we can begin to do that by addressing the real issues that they care about. I have said it before, ill say it again, im willing to work with anybody. Im eager to work with anybody. The democrats or republican, house or Senate Members on any idea that will grow our economy, create new jobs, threaten s str middle class and get our house in order