Boehner: After votes today, debt and Obamacare fights "will continue

WASHINGTON–House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) will a vote on the House floor on Wednesday on the Senate bi-partisan stopgap deal to lift the debt ceiling and reopen the partially closed federal government. Blocking the Senate agreement “will not be a tactic for us.” However, Boehner said the fight against Obama care and the debt “will continue.”

Before the vote Boehner said in a statement:

“The House has fought with everything it has to convince the president of the United States to engage in bipartisan negotiations aimed at addressing our country’s debt and providing fairness for the American people under ObamaCare. That fight will continue. But blocking the bipartisan agreement reached today by the members of the Senate will not be a tactic for us.

“In addition to the risk of default, doing so would open the door for the Democratic majority in Washington to raise taxes again on the American people and undo the spending caps in the 2011 Budget Control Act without replacing them with better spending cuts. With our nation’s economy still struggling under years of the president’s policies, raising taxes is not a viable option. Our drive to stop the train wreck that is the president’s health care law will continue. We will rely on aggressive oversight that highlights the law’s massive flaws and smart, targeted strikes that split the legislative coalition the president has relied upon to force his health care law on the American people.”