WASHINGTON (AP) — If majorities in both the House and Senate would vote to reopen the government with no strings attached, or vote to repeal the new health care law’s sales tax on heart pacemakers and MRI machines, then why isn’t that happening?
The rancorous budget fight offers a crash course in the arcane ways and language of Congress that sometimes defy logic. The stalemate also has cast a spotlight on the institutional power of two men — House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid — and whether they can act unilaterally as their political foes insist.
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