Senate led by democrats voted against it tuesday. The idea of a conference came up again during the white house talk. Weve appointed conferees to sit down and work with our senate colleagues. All were asking here is a discussion and fairness for the American People under obama care. Then Top Democrats in both the house and senate appeared before the camaras. The Senate Majority leader says he offered to go to conference but got a no from boehner. He said well be happy to talk about dis vision nary spending discretionary spending, well talk about anything that you want to talk about and he says, no, all i want to do is go conference on a shortterm c. R. We have a debt ceiling staring us in the face. The president made it clear he wont macon sessions on his healthcare law if its attached to any spending plan. Democrats are demanding a clean bill. We heard from the president earlier in an interview with cnbc. We have a situation right now where if john boehner the speaker of the house put
With a bully you cannot let them slap you around because they slap you around today they slap you five or six times. Tomorrow its seven or eight times. This back and forth has been ongoing for two weeks as the two sides inch towards a shut down president obama met with his cabinet to make plans. The battle is not over. It will come up over the fight of over raising the nations Borrowing Limit in two weeks. Craig boswell, fox news. Our Team Coverage continues fox 5 will thomas has been on capitol hill. Will, i imagine the mood is somber . It is really clear lawmakers are digging in. It seems no one is budging. It seems like this shut down is immanent. House leaders are getting negotiators to come up with some sort of plan to pen potentially that they can present to the senate so its not boehner and mcconnell. The big question will the senate name negotiators so you can see a meaningful conference. Lets get perspective right now. Right now there is no plan for now keep the government ope
I agree to talk. The way to resolve differences is to sit down and talk. But Senate Democrats rejected the house apps request for a conference on the spending bill. Harry reid says republicans are trying to refight an argument on obama care thats settled what is wrong with their fixation shin on a law this country has had for fours years bus theres no telling if the shut down but theres no telling how long the shut down will continue. Today across our region and america there was plenty of evidence of a Government Shutdown. Signs and barricades went up indicating moo see intoes, memorials and marks are now shut down museums. Many tourists locked out. People who live in d. C. And visitors are feeling the effects firsthand. The National Mall legally closed. People are being turned away from National Parks and smithsonian museums across the country. This morning the National Park began barricading the monuments and the mall. Workers closed off 45 fountains because of the shut down. All af
Defense workers will be out. The parks zoo and smithsonian would close. New patients would not be accepted into clinical research. At the National Institute of health but current patients would. The f. D. A. Would suspect inspections suspend inspections. Congress remains in a partisan deadlock. Lets talk about some of the things that have occurred in the last few hours. The senate rejected the latest spending plan and now it goes back to the house. Earlier the house voted to pass the latest version of a spending plan to try to head off a shut down. It delays the implementation of bo maam care. The bill went to the senate obama care. It was nearly defeated immediately. Almost immediately and with the Government Shutdown looming both sides are still pointing fingers on who is to blame. One faction of one party in one house of congress in one branch of government doesnt get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election. Keeping the peoples government open i
Strong storm. Heres the problem with it. It really is having hard time moving and its been almost stalled today. So its going to continue the northeast wind that keeps that onshore flow bringing the rain cooler temperatures and gusty winds especially at the beaches for the next several days our facebook friend linda says it hasnt been a real wet day but it sure has been a wendy day and pretty raw. Something youre also going to notice is this persistent onshore flow is going to cause minor coastal flooding. Maybe a half foot for the next few days. So its going to be kind of an ongoing thing where were going to deal with rounds of showers at times there could be heavy rain. I want to show you we could have a batch of moderate rain that could move across the kel march va. That could swing through our area. Plan on a wet commute. Plan on temperatures staying below average by some 10 degrees tomorrow so it feels like late november, scott. Let me let you know how much longer it will last but