Bachmann Exposes $105 Billion Secret

Townhall.com ^ | March 15, 2011 | Phyllis Schlafly

[Kaslin]

Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., has again demonstrated her extraordinary leadership in the U.S. House. She discovered $105 billion of taxpayers' money that Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi had hidden in ObamaCare.

Now, Bachmann wants her colleagues to refuse to pass must-pass bills, such as the Continuing Resolution or raising the debt limit, unless they include recapturing that secret money. What a great idea!

After all, the new Congress was elected last November to cut spending and put the federal government back within the bounds of the Constitution. The new members of Congress promised not only to cut overall spending but specifically to repeal and defund ObamaCare, so thank you, Michele, for showing the new Congress where to start.

When ObamaCare was passed by the Senate on Christmas Eve of 2009, senators had less than 72 hours to compare a 383-page package of amendments to the 2,074-page bill. Public outrage over backroom deals (such as the Cornhusker Kickback and the Louisiana Purchase) led to the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts.

Democrats then cooked up a plan to link the now-2,409-page Senate-passed ObamaCare bill to dozens of amendments contained in a separate 150-page Budget Reconciliation bill that could pass both houses by a simple majority. That's when then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously told the then-Democratic majority, "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it."

When President Obama signed ObamaCare into law, that set in motion a series of funding triggers and money transfers that add up to $105,464,000,000 in pre-authorized appropriations that are scheduled to be paid up through FY2019. In laymen's language, that means writing postdated checks that are guaranteed to be paid out over the next eight years.

This money was divided into dozens of smaller amounts so the big total would not be apparent. For example, Section 2953 of ObamaCare included a pre-funded appropriation of $75 million a year for five years to "educate adolescents" in "adult preparation subjects" such as "stress management" and "the development of healthy attitudes and values about adolescent growth and development, body image, racial and ethnic diversity, and other related subjects."

Section 4101(a) of ObamaCare prefunded $200 million a year over four years for the construction of school-based health centers. In Section 4002, a total of $17,750,000,000 will be deposited over 10 years to a discretionary account controlled by the HHS secretary (currently Kathleen Sebelius), who may spend that money "to provide for expanded and sustained national investment in prevention" and to "help restrain the rate of growth in private and public sector health care costs."

At a hearing last week before the House Health Subcommittee, former Rep. Ernest Istook, R-Okla., likened ObamaCare to a 2,700-page haystack in which a lot of needles are still being discovered. He urged Congress to place a stop-payment order on the massive postdated checks hidden in ObamaCare.

The Pelosi bunch's strategy was devious and highhanded. They bypassed the customary appropriations process and prefunded ObamaCare on passage, knowing that House Rules would restrict a future Congress from defunding an already enacted law.

This makes it more difficult for Congress to deal with, but not impossible. Congress will both have to include the defunding language in the FY2011 Continuing Resolution and also pass a rule that makes this defunding language OK under House Rules.

There is not only adequate precedent for this procedure, but it also is common sense. Congress, in its constitutional role, can completely stop this secret funding of discretionary funds.

What Pelosi did was like setting up online a way to pay your monthly utility bills out of your bank checking account. Each new date triggers the bank to pay the bill out of your bank account.

ObamaCare is very similar. The law Congress passed without reading it lists the dates up to 2019 on which payments totaling $105 billion are to be paid out of the U.S. Treasury.

Bachmann and Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa. are asking their colleagues to join them in signing a letter to the House leadership stating that the $105 billion in postdated checks drawn on the U.S. Treasury must be stopped, and stopped now, by including the necessary language in the continuing resolution.

It is an insult to the U.S. Constitution, which gives the House the power to originate all revenue bills, and to current and future Congresses, for ObamaCare to try to handcuff Congress in regard to future appropriations up through 2019.

We are fortunate that Bachmann is smart enough to figure out the cost of the secret money in ObamaCare. One of the smartest members of Congess, she was a tax attorney before being elected to Congress.

[Erik Latranyi]

"So I misplaced the battles Concord and Lexington by saying they were in New Hampshire. It was my mistake, Massachusetts is where they happened. New Hampshire is where they are still proud of it! "

I thought the battles of Concord and Lexington took place in our 57th state?

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

She was talking about this yesterday, caught it on a live stream at foxnews.com, but can’t find it now in their video archives.
She really nailed their hides.

[Liz]

Keep in mind------when he got in as Ohaha's COS, Rahm Emanuel put his brother Dr Zeke in charge of Medicare/Aid and O/care. Meaning Wall Street Rahm has his sticky fingers in Medicare/Aid billions and O/care billions. Wall Street scuzzball Rahm is an expert at looting and pillaging govt money piles. Rahm Emanuel knows how to make money disappear faster than a cream puff at a Weight Watcher weigh-in.

Novelist Dean Koontz stated in a public forum that at least $70 BILLION has been stolen by the Obama administration.

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"Professor" Obama surrounded himself with Wall Street shrewdies---like Rahm. They are helping themselves to billions as we type.......Keeping a permanent Dem majority is at the top of the list. They will have billions at their disposal.

HOW GANGSTER GOVERNMENT SCAMS TRILLIONS----THE MADOFF MO Ponzi Madoff created a supersecret labyrinth of interrelated international funds, institutions and financial entities of almost unparalleled complexity and breadth......with assets and businesses in multiple places overseas that hid thievery, money laundereing and tax evasion.

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BUT HOW'D HE DO THAT? This is so bogus. I feel like heaving Emanuel was given the bum's rush out of Washington-----he ran and won for Chicago Mayor. Rahm "said" he raised more than $10.5M in 3 months for that race..........

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Was Dr Zeke Emanuel spit-shining his penny loafers when the subject of "O/Care death" panels surfaced?

[ripley]

There are no words to describe to duplicity of psychotic, adolescent, insane, swine that call themselves Democrats.

Just a bunch of gang members, who when backed with an equally psychotic press, turn themselves into “heros of the people’, doing everything “for the children” and “loving humanity”.

Judging by the number of psychotics in the population who vote for them, they will probably be in power for a long time to come.

Scu*bags one and all.

IMHO

[Starboard]

“Michele Bachmann: American hero and patriot. Unlike John Boehner, who should resign immediately from his Speakership, and allow someone with courage and conviction to replace him.”

Absolutely and totally agree with you. I called her office today to express appreciation for her tireless efforts defending conservative principles. Good post.

[giotto]

I suppose to the New York liberal elites, the northeastern 2% of the country is the only part that matters, so mixing up Concord, MA and Concord, NH is unforgivable. But to the rest of us out here in giant states like California and Texas, the difference is negligible. You can drive from Concord to Concord in 1 hr. 8 min. It takes 13.5 hrs to drive from El Paso to Beaumont, Tx. It takes 14.5 hrs to drive from Crescent City, CA to San Diego. Even greater than the distance is the difference between a west Texan and an east Texan. I've never been to either Concord, but I would bet there's not that much difference between one New Englander and another.

Once again, the liberal media reveals that they don't have a clue.

[frogjerk]

I'm hoping you find he isn't a Natural Born Citizen because we don't need anymore RINOs potentially running for POTUS.

Keep me in the loop during your investigations because no matter who you were investigating, I think it is a fascinating topic that reveals much about the real intentions of the Founders.

[ASA Vet]

UPDATE!!! Found the record.

Donald Trump

born June 14, 1946 (Meets the 35 years Minimum age Requirement)

in Queens, New York, NY (Meets the Jus Soli Requirement)

Parents were
Frederick Christ Trump, born October 11, 1905 in Queens, NY, died June 1999 in Queens, NY
Mary Ann MacLeod, born May 10, 1912 in SCOTLAND, died August 7, 2000 in Queeens, NY. Arrived in US October 5, 1935. Married January 1936. Naturalized as US Citizen March 10, 1942.

Both parents were US Citizens at the time of his birth (Meets the Jus Sanguninis Requirement)

Donald Trump is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN unlike Comrade Barry.

[ASA Vet]

Ping to #28

[frogjerk]

Whew! What a relief! Just kidding.