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Sen. Bernie Moreno<\/a> said Thursday he expects the Senate to move a party-line legislative package after the midterm elections \u2014 especially if Democrats flip one or both chambers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will do a reconciliation bill \u2014 one way or the other we will,\u201d the Ohio Republican told reporters at the Capitol, referring to the simple-majority budget process. \u201cObviously, if we lose control of Congress, it’ll be the Last Supper.\u201d<\/p>\n

Such a bill, he added, would be \u201cgiant\u201d and would include \u201call the Republican priorities that we can get done.\u201d<\/p>\n

The House approved a framework for a party-line bill over the summer that includes war funding, farm aid and election integrity incentives. But the push has so far run aground in the Senate<\/p>\n

Moreno said the threat of imminent Democratic control of either the House or Senate would jumpstart matters \u2014 and potentially push Republicans to include a debt-ceiling increase as well.<\/p>\n

The borrowing limit is set to be reached sometime next year, and a Democratic majority could have significant leverage to demand concessions as part of any deal \u2014 something the GOP could forestall by acting in the lame-duck session.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, nobody wants to see a debt default,\u201d Moreno said. \u201cThat would be 1929 on steroids.”<\/p>\n

Rep. Rob Wittman<\/a> (R-Va.) also told reporters on Capitol Hill that a new reconciliation bill \u201chas to happen\u201d after the election but warned against expanding the scope of the House framework.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think you have to go with the one that we’ve got,\u201d he told reporters. \u201cThe Senate needs to act and get the job done.\u201d<\/p>\n

A senior member of the Armed Services Committee, Wittman said the legislation is \u201ckey to restock our weapons magazine\u201d and \u201cshould be the main focus when [members] get back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moreno said if Democrats win control of both chambers, Republicans should stay in session nonstop to pass GOP legislation \u2014 which could be a tall order given worries about poor post-election attendance<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we lose the House and the Senate, we should be here from Nov. 9 until Dec. 31 with no break at all,\u201d Moreno said. \u201cLike, we’ll have turkeys here for Thanksgiving because we have to get this done.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sen. Bernie Moreno said Thursday he expects the Senate to move a party-line legislative package after the midterm elections \u2014 especially if Democrats flip one or both chambers. \u201cWe will do a reconciliation bill \u2014 one way or the other we will,\u201d the Ohio Republican told reporters at the Capitol, referring to the simple-majority budget […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}