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WASHINGTON (AP) The tea party may have learned its lesson.
As Congress finishes work on a must-pass spending bill set for votes next week, the most conservative lawmakers on Capitol Hill are eager to send a message on immigration, and stand firm against a government lending bank.
But a year after they forced a 16-day partial government shutdown over President Barack Obama's health care law, few seem to have the stomach to push their demands that far again.
"No question we learned that with the aid of the news media the Democrats were able to pin the blame on us" for last year's shutdown, said conservative Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala.
This time around, Brooks said, "We need to pass whatever funding necessary to prevent a government shutdown, first and foremost."
Rep. John Fleming, R-La., another tea party-aligned lawmaker, said: "I don't think any of us want to have a big battle" over the spending bill to fund government operations into December.
Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced Wednesday that votes on the measure would be put off to next week to give lawmakers time to weigh the Obama administration's request to include authorization to aid Syrian rebels fighting Islamic State terrorists.
But that delay could create space for opposition against the bill to mount.
Tea party Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who played a lead role last year in goading House Republicans into shutting down the government over what they call "Obamacare," is urging House members to hold out for a spending bill that lasts until March rather than early December. That would ensure that the next round of fiscal negotiations takes place after a new Congress is sworn in possibly with Republicans in control of the Senate.
Some House conservatives who met with Cruz over pizza on Tuesday have embraced his strategy.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) With just eight weeks left in the race for Minnesota governor, both parties are trying to cast the others nominee as too extreme: Republicans say Gov. Mark Dayton is beholden to labor unions, while Democrats are chastising Jeff Johnson as being a right-wing supporter of the tea party.
The themes are driving the latest television ads and candidates comments, including on Thursday when Johnson accused Dayton of pushing a law that was a priority for state unions after he was endorsed and financially supported by the state chapter of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. The law paves the way for personal care attendants and home child care providers to unionize.
Any political payback is wrong, but this one is worse than a lot of them we see because it is done at the expense of a lot of hardworking businessmen and women, and at the expense of parents and children who use in-home child care in this state, said Johnson, a Hennepin County commissioner.
Dayton campaign manager Katharine Tinucci said Dayton has consistently supported citizens right to unionize and that his stance had nothing to do with institutional support or campaign money.
People have been trying to make hay out of this for years, she said.
Personal care attendants for the disabled and elderly recently voted to form a union, and a vote among thousands of day-care providers who tend to children in subsidy programs could occur soon. Both drives were authorized by Dayton and the Democratic-controlled Legislature, and allowed to proceed after court challenges.
Meanwhile, groups eager to see Dayton re-elected are spending heavily on TV ads branding Johnson as a tea party subscriber. The state Democratic Party is preparing to launch a million-dollar ad campaign next week, and the Democratic-aligned Alliance for a Better Minnesota has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars calling Johnson a tea party Republican.
Minnesotans dont want people who associate with the extremes of either party, Democratic Party Chairman Ken Martin said Wednesday. And when you have a candidate who is proudly wearing as a badge of honor the fact he is a tea party member, I dont think thats what Minnesotans want to see in their next governor.
Ukraine: Soldiers #39; loved ones besiege Defence Ministry in Kiev
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