Not All GOP Members Approve of Budget Deal

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday April 10, 2011

Talking Points Memo reports:

President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker John Boehner have reached a deal on the budget to prevent a government shutdown. But that doesn't mean that Boehner can get the entire Republican conference on board.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the Republican Study Committee, told reporters that he's a no vote on the final package.

"We really wanted more advancement on the life issue than was in the final package," Jordan told a small group of reporters after the vote. "I think there's a significant number of no votes."

Jordan was referring to the anti-abortion provisions that were stripped in the deal.

But other Republicans left their caucus meeting in the basement of the Capitol building with a more positive perspective.

"I go back to what Ronald Reagan used to say, if you get 80 percent of what you're shooting for, that's a victory, you go back and get the 20 percent later," Rep. Tim Griffin (R-AR) told me, adding he hadn't seen all the details of the plan yet but understood that the Senate would hold a separate vote on defunding Planned Parenthood.

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