{"id":1649366,"date":"2022-09-20T14:34:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T18:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1649366"},"modified":"2022-09-20T14:35:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T18:35:21","slug":"senate-house-republicans-throw-down-the-gauntlet-on-clean-continuing-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-house-republicans-throw-down-the-gauntlet-on-clean-continuing-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate, House Republicans Throw Down the Gauntlet on \u2018Clean\u2019 Continuing Resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-house-republicans-throw-down-the-gauntlet-on-clean-continuing-resolution%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1649366&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and 13 of his Senate Republican colleagues are challenging other GOP lawmakers and Democrats in the upper chamber to adopt a \u201cclean\u201d Continuing Resolution (CR) with no additional spending or policy changes.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.senate.gov\/services\/files\/F184F647-1CA9-4477-AE80-56F37E9F808C\">letter<\/a> puts the signers on a collision course with Senate Democrats, headed by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), regarding how the Senate deals with the requirement that Congress either adopt\u2014and President Joe Biden sign into law\u2014a completed 2023 budget, or approve a CR that keeps the federal government open after the Sept. 30 end of the 2022 fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are expected to push for a short-term CR that would end before the 118th Congress takes office in early January, this requiring another vote.<\/p>\n<p>That additional vote would give the current Democratic congressional leaders an opportunity to fatten federal spending and add policy directives that a new Republican majority would almost certainly oppose in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Lee and his fellow Senate conservatives are seeking to force the issue among their Republican colleagues, many of whom may prefer the Democrats\u2019 approach. It could also give them a chance to grab another slice of the federal spending pie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must not accept anything short of a \u2018clean\u2019 [CR] that contains no additional spending or extraneous policy riders. At a minimum, any agreement on a clean CR must carry over into the beginning of the 118th Congress,\u201d the 14 Republicans said in a Sept. 19 Dear Colleague Letter to the other 36 GOP senators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFailure to stand strong against lame-duck spending and caving to the Democrats will likely worsen inflation, prolong the current economic recession, and advance policies contained in the Biden administration\u2019s progressive wish-list. The American people cannot afford another Washington feeding frenzy. We must not let them down,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Utah\u2019s Lee, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and 13 of his Senate Republican colleagues are challenging other GOP lawmakers and Democrats in the upper chamber to adopt a \u201cclean\u201d Continuing Resolution (CR) with no additional spending or policy changes. The letter puts the signers on a collision course with Senate Democrats, headed by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1649366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}