Ideas being exchanged include a one-year extension of government funding at sequestration levels with more agency spending flexibility, a long-term debt limit increase of more than a year and a repeal of Obamacare’s medical device tax, changes to the Independent Payment Advisory Board and income means testing for Obamacare subsidies.
There is growing appetite for the Senate to forge a solution more comprehensive than the short-term, clean debt increase that House Republicans are pursuing.
“The Senate should act, okay? Then we try to coordinate with the House, but the Senate should act,” McCain said. “For the first time there seems to be some real movement.”
The Senate framework is different than the House proposal, which would still leave government shuttered. Senate Republicans have panned the House measure as too short and too narrow.
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