Preceding events
| Timeline of events |
- September 20, 2013 – House passes appropriations bill H.J.Res 59,
a continuing resolution that would fund the government until December
15, 2013. The bill included a controversial amendment that would defund
the ACA.
- September 27, 2013 – Senate
amends H.J.Res. 59, removing the House amendment that would defund the
ACA. This is commonly referred to as a clean continuing resolution.
- September 29, 2013 – House amends H.J.Res. 59 a second time to add another amendment to defund the ACA. President Obama threatens veto
- September 30, 2013 – Senate
amends H.J.Res. 59 again to remove the defunding amendment and return
to a clean continuing resolution. House Speaker refuses to bring amended
bill to vote
- October 1, 2013 – Government shuts down
- October 2, 2013 – Obama
meets with Republican and Democratic leaders, but no agreement is
reached. House begins passing "mini" appropriations bills. Senate
Majority Leader refuses to bring "mini" bills to vote
- October 9, 2013 – President
Obama invites the entire Congress to meet with him about the government
shutdown and upcoming debt ceiling. Separate meetings for House
Democrats, House Republicans, Senate Democrats, and Senate Republicans
were suggested. The House leadership responded that they will send 18
members to meet with Obama. [15]
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In January 2013, Republican Sen.
John Cornyn
of Texas wrote that "It may be necessary to partially shut down the
government in order to secure the long-term fiscal well being of our
country, rather than plod along the path of Greece, Italy and Spain."
[16] The
New York Times
reported that plans to defund the Affordable Care Act began soon after
Obama started his second term as President, involving a "loose-knit
coalition of conservative activists" led by former
Attorney General Edwin Meese III[17], who is also the the Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow Emeritus in the
The Heritage Foundation.
[18] Supported by funding from the billionaire
Koch brothers and conservative
political action committees, the activists worked with
Tea Party
coalition members of Congress, such as Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee,
to promote passage of an appropriations bill without any funding for the
Affordable Care Act. The groups ran negative media campaigns to
pressure Republicans in the House and Senate who had expressed doubts
about the strategy into changing their positions. Support for the plan
spread among Republican congressional leaders. In reference to an open
letter written by Congressman
Mark Meadows which was signed by 79 other members of the house, David Wasserman of the nonpartisan
Cook Political Report told the
New York Times,
"They've been hugely influential. When else in our history has a
freshman member of Congress from North Carolina been able to round up a
gang of 80 that's essentially ground the government to a halt?"
[17]
With Congress having failed to agree by late September 2013 on the
budget for the fiscal year beginning October 1, members of the Senate
proposed a resolution to continue funding the government at
sequestration levels
through December 2013 as a stop-gap measure, to allow more time to
negotiate over final funding levels for the full fiscal year.
[19]
Republican Senators
Ted Cruz,
Mike Lee,
and others then demanded a delay of or change to the Affordable Care
Act in exchange for passing the resolution. On September 24, Cruz gave a
21-hour speech in the Senate to draw attention to his goals.
[20]
On September 30, the Republican-led House sent many proposals to
continue funding the government through December while delaying or
blocking the Affordable Care Act, each of which were blocked by the
Democrat-led Senate.
[21]
Even if the Senate had agreed to House demands, President Obama
threatened to veto any bill that would delay the Affordable Care Act.
[22]
Once the shutdown had begun on October 1, a group of 30–40
Republicans in the House continued to pressure House Speaker John
Boehner to refuse to allow a vote on any funding resolution that would
not block or further delay the Affordable Care Act.
[23][24][25]
Much of the Affordable Care Act comes from mandatory spending, rather
than discretionary spending, and a continuing resolution would not
affect it. Some of the law’s funds also comes from multiple-year and
no-year discretionary funds that are not affected by a continuing
resolution.
[26]
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preceding events section of:
United States federal government shutdown of 2013
Once again for my readers worldwide this will allow you to zero in on exactly who caused this present mess and the above website likely will be updated periodically during and after the shutdown hopefully ends.
I'm very hopeful for example that this doesn't go on through Christmas because it was a pretty sad Christmas during 1995 when it went on throughout Christmas Vacation starting December 15th and went until January 6th which was a total this second time for about 21 days straight on the second time. The first time that year was around 6 days. We have already surpassed the first one in 1995 but not the second one (Yet).
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