Posted on 01/03/2011 2:21:56 PM PST by Sub-Driver
House GOP to vote on health repeal next week By: Carrie Budoff Brown January 3, 2011 05:02 PM EST
House Republicans will vote next week to repeal the new health care law, making good on a top-tier GOP campaign promise and setting up a showdown with President Barack Obama over his signature domestic policy achievement.
Majority Leader-elect Eric Cantor announced the timeline for considering the repeal legislation Monday: the bill will post on the Rules Committee website Monday night, the Rules Committee will meet Thursday, and the rule for the debate will be considered on the House floor Friday. The repeal vote will follow on Wednesday, Jan 12.
"Obamacare is a job killer for businesses small and large, and the top priority for House Republicans is going to be to cut spending and grow the economy and jobs, Cantor spokesman Brad Dayspring said in a statement. Further, ObamaCare failed to lower costs as the president promised that it would and does not allow people to keep the care they currently have if they like it. That is why the House will repeal it next week.
The repeal effort is not expected to succeed, given that Democrats maintain control of the Senate and the president can veto the legislation. But Republicans could embarrass the White House if they convince a number of Democrats to vote with them, and over the long term, plan to try to chip away at pieces of the law.
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NACY PELOSI SAID “You have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it.”
So they passed it, and the GOP can say, “We now know what’s in it.”
If they row in that direction, and it looks like they will, they can take the shine off of it further and they MUST also pass the “GOP Plan” for private healthcare reform. Insurance across state lines, etc.
agreed it is a good thing to rattle zer0’s cage...but with out the Senate?
Doogle suggested “hot chocolate and smores” !!!
YEAH!!!
We can only hope they follow through.
Pass it with enough dems and you might get it passed in the senate, too.....then override the veto and rattle his cage all the way.
Yes! Thanks very much!
Let ‘em vote!
Oh yes there is! Just attach it to every bill that has anything to do with financing the government and sit back to see who blinks first.
Why isn't this called his "signature achievement" period? Is someone going to pull a "signature foreign policy achievement" out of their you know what?
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Alright; here we go. Even without the Senate, the House must make the dem’s support this damn thing, hang it around their necks....
And tie it to the 2011 appropriations bill, just for giggles.
“You want buttuh for that popcorn?”
You are all missing the point: we have 47 votes in the Senate and need only four more to get a majority (there won’t be the 2/3 needed for repeal). But, it puts on the spot the supposed “Blue Dogs” from Red States in the Senate, including Tester of Montana, Nelson of Nebraska, Pryor of Arkansas and Conrad of North Dakota, all of whom must run again in two years and all of whom at least voted against the Dream Act and indicated they opposed the Second Stimulus. It also puts Webb on the spot, who has been Obama’s “Silent Butler” on every stinking issue but who must run in a Red State where conservatives easily won the Governorship and 3 out of 4 contested House races this past year.
It took a lot of waiting to finally be proud to be a Republican!
Go Team!
THE GREAT GOP COLLAPSE at the end of 2010 might be a blessing in disguise. They have to be feeling the anger over their surrender to Obama and perhaps it will force them to the right.
Exactly. Full votes to repeal need to be on the table, but with thousands of pages, there is enough for an "outrage of the month" with full detailed committee hearings on individual pieces of the legislation. This would provide a focused message rather than one going in different directions on the many different bad aspects of the bill - followed by additional votes for repeal. If this is not done, especially given the media, it will cause the message to be lost and also it will die out from fatigue over the issue in the news cycle - it would not do us well to fire all ammunition at once.
Don’t forget Manchin.
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