Posted on 03/24/2010 9:26:49 AM PDT by pissant
Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) announced today that he is supporting a 47-word long bill to repeal the 2,400-page long health care bill that was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on Tuesday.
The text of the legislation backed by Inhofe and introduced by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) reads as follows:
“To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. REPEAL. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and the amendments made by that Act, are repealed.”
In a statement about his support for the proposed repeal, Inhofe said, “I stand with the majority of the American people in opposing the awful government takeover of our health care system. Repealing this legislation is the only way we can start over with meaningful reforms that will improve our health care system – not turn it into socialized medicine.”
“The tax increases, cuts in Medicare, and the provisions that allow taxpayer funds to be used for abortions are all unacceptable,” said Inhofe. “I appreciate Senator DeMint’s efforts on this, and I look forward to working with my colleagues in doing all we can to repeal Obama’s health care plan.”
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
I so wish we could have a Constitutional amendment that stated that no bill could be more than 2 or 3 pages long. It’s insane for us to continue to allow these crooks to put in so many pages they can’t read them all, we can’t understand them until it’s far too late and they can throw in things that have nothing to do with the law they are passing.
Amen!!!
Also be sure to sign the Repeal ObamaCare Pledge that Sen Jim DeMint has.
Over 131,000 folks have signed the pledge thus far.
Sign it yourself and send an email to your friends encouraging them to sign it.
On top of 2400 pages of ‘screw america’ gibberish, the various agencies - IRS, HHS, FDA, etc will add 1000s of new pages of regulations and onerous clap trap.
At least this: bills shall have no unrelated amendments.
The rationing and long lines are also unacceptable. I say ration the liberals.
Sen. Inhofe Backs 47-Word Bill To Repeal 2,400-Page Health Care Law
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I wonder how many words it takes to introduce an Article of Impeachment against Obammie.
Real health reform ought to be about 5-10 paragraphs.
In fact, that should be one of the things that Republicans run on. Put together bills for every major issue of the day that are less than 5 pages long.
I say all bills must have the paragraph and line of the power granted by the US Constitution that authorizes such law. No citation, no bill.
And I think the average American doesn’t understand that.
I would be happy with:
Congress shall make no law. (stop)
I would go for that, but I don’t trust these corrupt people not to find a way to make everything related.
That’s a good idea, but you know that the corrupt people in Washington will work around that, just as they’ve worked around the rest of the Constitution.
Psst, psst, psst, the birth cert. dummies!!!
I’m looking for am amendment that states that any
legislation introduced may only be passed after
the next regular November election, unless it is
passed by 75 in the Senate and 327 in the house.
Any law repealing bill that reduces spending may
be passed by a simple majority as early as 72 hours
of introduction, however any bill repealing a law
that increases spending must meet the 75/327 rule
after the next regular November election.
Look, all the necessary laws have been passed.
The new business at hand is repeal and replace;
replace only if really necessary.
“Kill this socialist CRAP dead.”
Do the ones who passed it still get to live?
How do you impeach a foreigner? Can’t we just deport him back to Kenya?
“I would be happy with:
Congress shall make no law. (stop)”
Awesome post...maybe the best of the day.
this is to show the rest of the republicans what to do
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