House conservative leader wants budget deal focused on ObamaCare

Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman Bill Flores (R-Texas) will lobby Republicans negotiating a House-Senate budget deal to include narrowly-written instructions on reconciliation that focus on repealing ObamaCare, according to a House GOP aide.

That would put Flores on the side of Senate Republicans who have signaled they want to focus their reconciliation effort on ObamaCare. 

{mosads}House Republicans included broader instructions in their budget. 

House Budget Chairman Tom Price (R-Ga.) and his Senate counterpart Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) are responsible for working out the deal with conferees.

If both chambers adopt a budget compromise, it would authorize a reconciliation process in which committees produce deficit-cutting measures. Those measures could not be filibustered in the Senate because they are written under reconciliation rules.

That means a bill repealing ObamaCare might be able to make it through the House and Senate, though it would be vetoed by President Obama. 

Republicans have already been working behind the scenes on a deal that merges the two resolutions each chamber adopted in late March.

The RSC budget that the House rejected last month in a 132-294 vote advocated using reconciliation to torpedo ObamaCare.