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House Republicans have a plan to get their bills past the Senate.
WASHINGTON -- Planned Parenthood and Obamacare are probably the two things the GOP hates most. House Republicans are targeting both this week with an obscure procedural move that could finally advance opposition bills to President Barack Obama's desk.
The procedure is called budget reconciliation, and legislation advanced that way cannot be filibustered in the Senate, is subject only to limited amendments and needs only simple majority votes to pass, according to House and Senate rules.
It would then be up to Obama to veto the measures, which he would be all but certain to do. But the process would move two cherished GOP goals through the Senate, pushing them further than they've ever gotten before.
Obamacare remains as unpopular as ever, and this package gives us our best shot to put a repeal bill on the presidents desk," said Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who is leading the Obamacare attack and rolled out his plans Monday.
Congress set up the moves last spring when it passed a budget plan that included reconciliation provisions -- essentially instructions for various committees to draw up legislation targeting the Affordable Care Act and other unspecified issues. Senate committees are expected to take similar steps to those in the House.
Ryan's legislation targets the ACA by ordering the repeal of several key parts of the law, including the mandate for people to purchase health care, the cost-controlling Independent Payment Advisory Board, a tax on medical devices, and the so-called "Cadillac plan" tax on high-cost health insurance.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gop-republicans-obamacare-planned-parenthood_560965d2e4b0768126fe3f35
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(43,890 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesnt always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one youre already in.[/center][/font][hr]
NonMetro
(631 posts)And they knew about these phony doctored up videos way in advance. It was a 3 year project, probably funded by the Koch brothers. I still think it was planned by the RNC in collusion with National Right To Life. Can't prove it, but it has all the earmarks of that. The videos were supposed to be the "smoking gun!" of Planned Parenthood's "house of horrors!" The whole shocked and repulsed nation was supposed to rise up in anger and demand that Planned Parenthood be shut down! Well, that didn't happen because most people saw the scam right away. So, now they're back to "We'll shut down the Government!"
It's a good thing the country can just keep on going along without a congress. Otherwise, we'd be out of business with these a-holes in charge!
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)NonMetro
(631 posts)Thanks for your kind words.
I have read that some billionaire in Texas is financing Cruz, who is now spearheading the GOP assault on Planned Parenthood. Was this perhaps supposed to be the big national scandal where the gallant knight Ted Cruz! was to ride in on his white horse and save us all from this "horror" and win national fame, vaulting him to the presidency?
Anyway, it is cheesy enough to be a GOP plot?
leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)How much tax money have they simply wasted on this?
Andy823
(11,495 posts)Democrats in DC should figure that out, and then use it against them in next years elections. They "claim" to be trying to save the country money, yet they come up with crap like this that cost taxpayers millions of dollars. Maybe if some one in the party could come up with an actual dollar amount, and actually list all the insane committees, hearings, investigations, etc it would make them have to defend their BS during their election.
Generic Brad
(14,274 posts)...the GOP can keep up their excersise in futility as long when it is clear they will never have the votes they need to git 'er done.