{UAH} Boehner: No Funding Bill Without 1-Year

By: STEPHEN OHLEMACHER

Speaker John Boehner said Thursday the GOP-controlled House will not

accept a temporary spending bill from the Democratic Senate if it is shorn

clean of a tea party plan to "defund Obamacare."

"I don't see that happening," Boehner told reporters.

At the same time, the Ohio Republican said House GOP leaders would

unveil legislation to lift the government's borrowing cap, but only if the new

health care law is delayed for a year. He defended that measure's relatively

modest spending cuts even as some rank-and-file conservatives pressed

for more.

"It does not cut spending significantly. It does not fix the problem," Rep. Mo

Brooks, R-Ala., said of the debt ceiling package. He said he was undecided

about whether to support it. "We need to significantly cut federal

government spending, or long-term have a balanced budget constitutional

amendment," he said.

Pressure is building on fractious House Republicans as a partial

government shutdown looms at midnight Monday if a bitterly-divided

Congress can't send a temporary spending bill to President Barack Obama

on time.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid immediately rejected Boehner's

proposal. Meanwhile, the Senate trudged ahead toward a Friday vote on

stripping the defund Obamacare provision from the House-passed stopgap

funding bill.

Boehner's remarks mean the House will return the stopgap measure to the

Senate over the weekend, but he declined to describe what measures

Republicans might add to it.

A partial government shutdown would keep hundreds of thousands of

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