The shutdown ended quickly after Congress passed a continuing resolution for a little less than a month, giving them time to negotiate. Why: This one literally happened because Reagan and Congress had social engagements and forgot to keep funds flowing in the meantime. I swear to God. Congress missed the deadline tonight for action on a catch-all spending bill needed to finance the Government in the next two and a half months, even though House and Senate conferees adopted a compromise measure resolving differences in the legislation approved by each chamber.
The House and Senate will not act on the measure until Friday. Congressional leaders barred a late-night session because of major social events tonight by both Republicans and Democrats. Why: This dispute concerned money both the House and Senate wanted for a public works jobs program, which Reagan threatened to veto. Why: A variety of issues this time: House Democrats wanted more education funding, more aid for Israel and Egypt, less aid to Syria and El Salvador, and less defense spending than Reagan did.
The two parties reached a compromise in which the MX missile was funded, and Democrats got a lot less money for education and secured their defense and foreign cuts, along with a ban on oil and gas drilling on federal animal refuges. And this time, , workers were furloughed. Why: House Democrats were pushing a number of White House-opposed provisions, including expansion of Aid to Families With Dependent Children, the name used at the time for welfare.
About , workers were furloughed for half a day. Why: Congressional Democrats were resisting further funding for the Contras in Nicaragua, and insisted on reinstating the Fairness Doctrine, a Federal Communications Commission rule that had recently been abandoned, which required broadcasters to show balanced perspectives on political issues. Why: Bush pledged to veto any continuing resolution that did not come with a plan to reduce the deficit.
The House tried to override his veto and failed, forcing a shutdown in which millions of workers were furloughed. The House and Senate agreed to a joint budget resolution outlining a declining deficit, and Bush signed a continuing resolution. Why: Gingrich and Dole sent Clinton a continuing resolution including hikes to Medicare premiums, rollbacks of environmental regulations, and a requirement to balance the budget within seven years.
Clinton vetoed it, and the government went into shutdown. The shutdown ended with a deal among the three leaders to fund the government at 75 percent levels for four weeks so that negotiations could keep going. Clinton acceded to the seven-year balanced budget requirement. About , employees were furloughed. Republicans eventually caved after 21 days, and Clinton then proposed a plan that the CBO agreed balanced the budget. Some , workers were furloughed, in the longest shutdown in history.
Why: Ted Cruz, basically. While House Republicans, led by Boehner, had pressured the White House into agreeing to lower levels of discretionary spending , and conservatives in the House led by Rep. It was set to roll out the following year, and conservatives, most vocally led by Cruz and Heritage Action , were desperate to stop it before it gained beneficiaries who could defend it politically.
Don't bring lots of dirty, gross trash. Come in a costume if you'd like! I wouldn't want to characterize the shutdown as being politically unimportant — clearly it's not a trivial event, and clearly there's some significant amount of uncertainty in just how the public might react. But my guess is that its political impact is likely to be exaggerated by some of my friends in the press.
Boehner refused to disclose specifics on what has been agreed to and what remains to negotiate, telling the assembled Republicans at one point: "Talking to you people is like talking to a press conference. The overwhelming sense among House Republicans attending the conference was that a shutdown would be averted and a compromise on the spending levels and policy riders would be acceptable to the vast majority of the conference.
Brad Plummer of TNR reports :. What was clear, however, was that Democrats were winning the spin war for the first time in recent memory. First, a gaggle of Senate Democratic women assembled in a TV studio in the early afternoon to talk up what Planned Parenthood actually does — provide STD testing and cancer screening and contraception for low-income women.
True, Planned Parenthood also provides abortion services, but federal funds are already barred from going toward that. GOP: don't retreat! The country is going broke. America can't afford cowboy poetry? And of course "subsidising abortion" with federal funds is already illegal. Oh and the country isn't going broke. Other than that, spot on. This government budget crisis has produced at least one very welcome offshoot for Barack Obama: It gives him an excuse to cancel a family vacation to lame Colonial Williamsburg.
Maybe that's been the goal all along? The organization also said its doctors and nurses annually conduct one million screenings for cervical cancer, , breast exams and some four million tests and treatments for sexually transmitted diseases. Title X provides grants for family planning and related health services under a law signed by Republican President Richard Nixon in December Federal law bars Planned Parenthood from using tax dollars for abortion.
In , three years after the landmark Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, Congress passed the Hyde Amendment which bars the use of taxpayer funds for abortion except in cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother. Let me start by saying I very much hope we can avert a government shutdown. It'll be harsh and unfair to our people.
It will be inefficient and disruptive. But we are a country of laws, and if we go through a government shutdown, we will follow the law, and that's important to realize. We won't be following a set of priorities, necessarily, but rather a specific set of laws, the Anti-Deficiency Act and exception to it. The Anti-Deficiency Act basically says if we don't have an appropriation, we can't obligate or disburse funds, except with some very narrow exceptions for safety of life and protection of property.
And based on those exceptions, we can maintain key national security functions - the war in Afghanistan, the transition in Iraq, the Libya operations, the humanitarian operations in Japan - and other key national security missions, and the support that's directly required for the legal, financial, acquisition.
House appropriators' staff began meeting in Speaker John Boehner's office about 7. The proposal under review could form the basis of an agreement on a six-month continuing resolution that averts a government shutdown of longer than a few days. It would not include a ban on federal funding for Planned Parenthood, but part of the arrangement would likely be an unspecified and symbolic procedural step intended to give Boehner and conservatives political cover on the issue, the aides said.
Democrats appear to have accepted an increased level of cuts in exchange for the GOP dropping the rider. AP reports:. Republican leaders have called the party's House rank and file to a highly unusual late night meeting in the Capitol to discuss budget negotiations with President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats. The meeting comes about three two hours before a midnight deadline to avoid the first government shutdown in 15 years.
Texas Rep. Jeb Hensarling says that at this point there is no deal. But negotiators have been exchanging offers all day. Cat out of the bag," says Brian Beutler , with a screenshot of what appears to be a press release from Nebraska's Republican senator Mike Johanns, sent out prematurely. In it, Johanns welcomes "the three-day budget agreement reached by bipartisan negotiators Boehner is selling us out tonight. We will primary Boehner next year. Whatever the deal is, The Hill reports that it could still be derailed by hold-outs :.
With little more than 2 hours before the midnight deadline, House and Senate leaders will need to pass some type of funding measure by unanimous consent to avert a shutdown. Under the rules of the Senate, a bill cannot be moved quickly unless it clears by unanimous consent. If there is an objection, a cloture motion must be filed and approved — a process that takes days. Well they better get a move on. Less than 90 minutes to actually pass any stop-gap legislation before midnight.
Aside from the fact that we haven't seen the deal yet. Looking further ahead to April or May, there's the issue of the debt ceiling, which dictates how much the US government can legally borrow. Here's an explanation of the debt ceiling and why it matters. Dem and GOP sources: Deal is done and signed off on. John Boehner has just spoken very briefly: he says there has been a deal reached and that Congress will now vote on a bridging resolution to provide short-term financing and avert a shutdown.
This has been a long discussion and a long fight," says Boehner. Now Congress is going to have to act quickly in order to have both the Senate and the House pass a quick resolution allowing funding for another few days, so that the full deal can be passed next week it would take too long to do so in the hour or so remaining.
Tomorrow I'm pleased to announce that the Washington Monument, and the entire federal government, will be open for business tomorrow. He's careful to make mention of coming together and finding common ground: "I want to thank Speaker Boehner and Senator Reid for their leadership," and mentions the deal as the largest annual spending cut in American history.
Then he mentions a letter he received from a mother in Colorado whose son's class was about to visit Washington, just at the point that the federal government would have been closed if this agreement hadn't been reached:. A few days ago, I received a letter from a mother in Longmont, Colorado.
Over the year, her son's eighth-grade class saved up money and worked on projects so that next week they could take a class trip to Washington DC. They even have an appointment to lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The mother wrote that for the last few days the kids in her son's class had been worried and upset that they might have to cancel their trip because of a shutdown. Cox took over for the U. Park Service employees and was seen mowing the lawn and emptying the area's overflowing trash cans.
Veterans pushed past barricades of the closed WWII memorial. Millions of veterans and their families almost did not receive their benefits. The Veterans Affairs secretary at the time, Eric Shinseki, warned that if the shutdown continued through late October, the agency would not be able to send out compensation checks to 5. There was an increase in restaurant beverage mostly liquor sales.
Beverage sales saw a 3 percent increase during the first week of October compared to the first week of September that year. Shutdownbeards became a thing. With extra time on their hands and no meetings to look presentable for, some furloughed federal staffers tweeted out pictures of their beards, refusing to shave until Congress ended the shutdown.
The shutdown finally came to an end. On Oct.
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