WASHINGTON - Democrats used both diplomacy and trash talk to urge House Speaker John A. Boehner to abandon his tea party flank Wednesday and pass a no-strings-attached bill to reopen the federal government, as attention turned to the broader fight looming over the nation's debt limit. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid also telephoned Boehner on Wednesday morning, promising the speaker a broad negotiation on federal budget priorities if the speaker would agree to allow a vote on a straight bill to reopen government. Reid, in his letter to Boehner, suggested the speaker's strategy of using the routine government funding bill as leverage for killing the Affordable Care Act would have been like Democrats shutting down government to end the Iraq war during President George W. Bush's administration. On Wednesday, the House was set to hold a second round of votes to approve small-scale bills that would reopen particular parts of the government.
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