Carney declined to push Reid to return, saying that the way out remains having the House vote on the Senate bill.
“The reason they refused to vote on that bill is because it would have passed,” Carney said.
Carney also suggested that the real problem was that House and Senate Republican leaders couldn’t get their act together among themselves, given that 89 Senators backed the two-month patch.
The president “is not and should not be” a “marriage counselor between House and Senate Republicans,” Carney said.
Rep. Bill Cassidy has his blood drawn by Alesha Barbour during a free hepatitis screening in the Rayburn House Office Building hosted by the Congressional Viral Hepatitis Caucus to recognize "National Viral Hepatitis Testing Day."
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