Posted on 02/02/2015 6:30:57 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) introduced an “Obamacare Repeal Act” that would repeal the Affordable Care Act “as if such Act had not been enacted.”
The text of Cruz’s bill to repeal the 2,700-page law — which spawned another 10,000 pages of regulations — barely runs onto the third page. It comes as Republicans have debated whether to use a procedural tactic that circumvents filibusters known as reconciliation to repeal the legislation.
“This repeal bill is pro-growth, pro-jobs, and pro-liberty,” Cruz says in a statement on the bill. “It provides time for Congress to start over, to pass true market-based reforms that will allow the purchase of insurance across state lines, expand health savings accounts, and make health insurance, personal, portable, and affordable.”
The bill is co-sponsored by 44 Senate Republicans, including Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) and several leading members of the Obamacare working group that is mulling the GOP’s possible response to a major anti-Obamacare lawsuit pending before the Supreme Court. If the Court rules against the administration, Americans who enrolled in Obamacare through the federal exchanges would not qualify for subsidies.
“We must send this bill to the president’s desk,” Cruz adds. “If he vetoes it, the GOP Congress should pass bill after bill to stop Obamacare. Each will have broad support among the American people, and Democrats in both chambers will be hard-pressed not to support them. The President will be faced with a clear choice: either listen to the American people, who have never supported this law, or ignore them, and ignore the disastrous harms to millions of families, young people, and the most vulnerable among us.”
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Yup, this clearly puts him at odds with Karl Rove and his big government ilk.
You realize that if you do not vote for him in the general election, you are not voting for a conservative and therefore voting for a liberal.
I’m not a Cruz fan, but if he’s the candidate, I’m voting for him. The alternative is not acceptable.
If Scott Walker were the candidate, I like many others would write-in Ted’s name.
Hurrah!
Fine. Obamacare remains extremely unpopular with the American people, despite the media’s best efforts. Let the bill get to Hussein’s desk and let him veto it. Then beat the Democrats up over that.
The new MBS, Mort(Death) Gauge (Grip) of each body they are counting on.
They are counting on packaging and selling these “MBS” as securities.
Over 300+ million legal citizens don’t want their bodies as Mortgages, for the Exempt Ones and their so called “insurance” and “banking” crone Lobby.
Mort = Death
Gage = Grip
McConnell is a co-sponsor. His hearing might be better than we thought.
Beat the dims up over it???? Are you kidding? The RINOs attack the enemy??? Really??? When they do, please kindly let me know. That mob of wimps couldn’t attack a girl scout troop.
Well said and spot on.
Some in “our” party evidently have trouble in the Identification Friend or Foe realm.
I hope they stay at repealing Obama Care. But the fact is that Civil Disobedience may kill Obama Care, especially when the IRS fines kick in.
People are going to learn to have nothing to do with Obama Care.
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