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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Ted Cruz is clashing with his fellow Republican senators over plans for a bill that would keep the U.S. government from shutting down next week.
Cruz, the Texas Republican, and other conservatives want to derail House Republicans’ plans to keep the government funded past Dec. 11. The Texan said he opposes a plan to pass a bill to keep the government funded through September, revisit Department of Homeland Security funding early next year and pass a proposal disapproving of President Barack Obama’s immigration policy. As Politico reports, some of his Senate colleagues say his plan would result in a government shutdown. “We’re just not going there,” said Sen. John Cornyn of Texas about revisiting anything like 2013’s shutdown fight, in which Cruz played a large role.
House Republican leaders are pushing ahead with the plan Cruz despises. As The Wall Street Journal reports, the House is expected to vote Thursday on a bill that would express Republicans’ opposition to Obama’s executive orders on immigration. But the vote will be largely symbolic: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has said his chamber won’t consider the measure. Meanwhile, as the Journal says, House GOP leaders are banking on the prospect of help from Democrats to pass the government-funding bill, given conservatives’ opposition.
Who worries Hillary? Four Republicans worry Hillary Clinton’s allies as the former secretary of state mulls a White House campaign, according to the Hill: Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Rand Paul and Scott Walker. As the Hill puts it, Clinton World believes Paul, the Kentucky senator, has run the best “pre-campaign” of the group. But time and again, Bush’s is the top name to roll off everyone’s tongue, given the former Florida governor’s enormous resources and solid networking structure.
Low turnout for Clinton speech: Hillary Clinton spoke Wednesday at Georgetown University, where it’s the last week before final exams. That, according to a university spokeswoman cited by Business Insider, may account for some of the empty seats at the event. Her remarks were delivered in an auditorium that seats more than 700 people, but based on tweets from those who attended the event, many seats were empty.
Paul blames Garner’s death on cigarette tax: Rand Paul blamed a law raising taxes on cigarettes for the death of Eric Garner, an African-American man killed by a white police officer in New York City in July. Garner died after a police officer put him in a chokehold while trying to arrest him for selling tax-free cigarettes. “I do blame the politician” that wrote the law, Paul said on MSNBC’s “Hardball.” “We put our police in a dangerous situation with bad laws.” On Wednesday, a grand jury declined to indict the officer in Garner’s death. Protests erupted around New York City after the decision.
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