Live Blog: House Votes on Boehner Plan

UPDATE: 9:34 PM

According to Fox News, Speaker of the House John Boehner will "tweak" his debt ceiling bill before it is to be voted on. What exactly he will change is unknown. Likewise, when exactly a vote will take place is unknown.

UPDATE: 7:00 PM

Two items of note - 1. The House is in recess and 2. Boehner's likely to hold a vote tonight, regardless of whether he has the votes, or not.

UPDATE: 6:32 PM

Speaker Boehner's spokesman says there will be a vote tonight.

Stay tuned.

UPDATE: 6:11 PM

Excellent question from Ed Henry of Fox News: "If Speaker Boehner is struggling this much to get through this measure, what can pass [the] House?"

That's what scares me.

UPDATE: 6:02 PM

I am done live-blogging - at least until they start voting - but I want to leave everyone with this: any GOP no votes that change will be because of Speaker Boehner's ability to lead; not his ability to bribe.

UPDATE: 5:47 PM

So what does this mean?

Well, House Republicans are still not united (or, at least not united enough) to pass their leadership's proposal and force Senator Reid's hand on the debt.

UPDATE: 5:45 PM

Whoa, Nelly! Final vote on passage has just been postponed until later.

UPDATE: 5:38 PM

Pelosi continues to blather about protecting the children; the children's water and the children's grandparents. Probably their pets too.

UPDATE: 5:33 PM

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-California): "Republicans want to dismantle decades of progress for the middle class." Yes we do, because progress has us in debt.

UPDATE: 5:27 PM

Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) has slammed Democrats on accounting tricks and gimmickry in Senator Reid's proposal.

UPDATE: 5:23 PM

Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Illinois) just brought Martin Luther King into the debate on raising the national debt-ceiling. Oy vey.

--Original Article-

The House of Representatives will be voting shortly on Speaker John Boehner's proposal to raise the national debt-ceiling; cut spending and guarantee congress considers the Balanced Budget Amendment sometime later this year.

I support passage of the plan, but current whip counts have the vote coming in close - due to revolt by Tea Party members and obstructionism by Democrats, even the supposed blue dogs. Thus anything can happen over the next sixty-to-ninety minutes on Capitol Hill.

Stay tuned for updates through-out the evening and turn on C-SPAN for debate.