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House votes 230-189 to fund government, defund ObamaCare
The Hill ^ | 9/20/13 | Pete Kasperowicz

Posted on 09/20/2013 8:31:22 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001

The House on Friday passed legislation that defunds ObamaCare but would keep the government running through mid-December.

The legislation was approved on a party line 230-189 vote, with Rep. Scott Rigel (Va.) the only GOP no vote. Two Democrats voted for the measure, Reps. Jim Matheson (Utah) and Mike McIntyre (N.C.).

Passage of the bill sets up a showdown with the Senate, and moves the two sides closer to a possible government shutdown on Oct. 1.

The ObamaCare language is expected to be stripped from the bill in the Senate, setting up a critical week of negotiations next week. House Republicans have cancelled a planned recess to return to Washington Wednesday, and their leaders have warned the House could be in next weekend.

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) bowed to conservatives in deciding to include the healthcare language in the continuing resolution. Republicans in the House had rejected an earlier proposal from their leaders that would have funded the government without defunding ObamaCare.

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1 posted on 09/20/2013 8:31:22 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: spacejunkie2001

Finally, a victory for what is right!


2 posted on 09/20/2013 8:33:34 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: spacejunkie2001
YES!!!!
3 posted on 09/20/2013 8:35:18 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again,")
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To: fella

Yes, for now but No, next week, when Boehner and the Democrats fund Obamacare. It will happen.


4 posted on 09/20/2013 8:36:04 AM PDT by Windy City Conservative
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To: PATRIOT1876

“Finally, a victory for what is right!”
A victory? What have we won?
ANSWER: nothing yet


5 posted on 09/20/2013 8:36:37 AM PDT by aumrl (let's keep it real Conservatives)
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To: PATRIOT1876

And Senate will fund Obamacare again. Besides. Bathhouse Barry would veto it.

DC is a sickness.


6 posted on 09/20/2013 8:38:50 AM PDT by whitedog57
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To: whitedog57

It makes a good kabuki show for fundraising emails.


7 posted on 09/20/2013 8:39:51 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: spacejunkie2001
A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.

[Borrowed from a very old Chinese fellow and as told to the West by Marco Polo.]

8 posted on 09/20/2013 8:42:15 AM PDT by jamaksin
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To: spacejunkie2001

I have no confidence in anything the Senate does. They are corrupt and polluted. IIRC, they were the ones who got this entire debacle kicked off in the first place.


9 posted on 09/20/2013 8:42:16 AM PDT by rlmorel (Silence: The New Hate Speech)
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To: PATRIOT1876

Now its senate ass kicking time!!!!


10 posted on 09/20/2013 8:44:07 AM PDT by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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11 posted on 09/20/2013 8:45:49 AM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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To: whitedog57

“Bathhouse Barry would veto it.”

Would he if it passed the Senate too? That would put the shutdown 100% on O’bastard. Let’s try it and see if he wants to go there.


12 posted on 09/20/2013 8:48:18 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: aumrl

Just having our representatives do what they were elected to do is enough right now. The real question will come in the Senate when the Dems in red states have to decide to do what the people want or follow Obama. They will be on record for 2014. Obama is a lame duck, do they want to join him?


13 posted on 09/20/2013 8:51:05 AM PDT by chuckles
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To: Beagle8U
Would he if it passed the Senate too?

It's not going to so it's pretty much a moot point.

14 posted on 09/20/2013 8:57:09 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: chuckles
Just having our representatives do what they were elected to do is enough right now. The real question will come in the Senate when the Dems in red states have to decide to do what the people want or follow Obama. They will be on record for 2014. Obama is a lame duck, do they want to join him?

Or, does the kabuki theater play out and they go to the mat for him only to decide to not run again in a few weeks after this all play out...

15 posted on 09/20/2013 9:07:47 AM PDT by taildragger (The E-GOP won't know what hit them, The Party of Reagan is almost here, hang tight folks....)
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To: spacejunkie2001

Happy News For Friday !


16 posted on 09/20/2013 9:09:08 AM PDT by onona (The Earth is the insane asylum for the universe (yup, I belong))
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To: RedMDer

Tell all your union buddies....if they don’t want their hours cut, and don’t want to lose their health plan, jump on board and call their Senators. Does not look like Richie Trumka is getting anywhere trying to get them a waiver.


17 posted on 09/20/2013 9:11:32 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: aumrl
We have engaged in and won a moral victory, a vote that each and every GOP congress critter claimed to be in favor of doing.

Now on to the Senate to see if these cowards have the guts to vote against the will of their voters!

The rag tag Patriots fighting and losing battles in the Revolutionary War had turned around and gone back to their homes and families, Queen Elizabeth would have been our Monarch and George Washington, Patrick Henry, Dolly Madison and Paul Revere would merely be names lost in history!

Now, go back to work, to sleep or whatever else consumes your daily routine and have a nice day!

18 posted on 09/20/2013 9:22:09 AM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: spacejunkie2001; All

” - - - The legislation was approved on a party line 230-189 vote, with Rep. Scott Rigell (Va.) the only GOP no vote. Two Democrats voted for the measure, Reps. Jim Matheson (Utah) and Mike McIntyre (N.C.). - - - “

Now, who were the sorry RINOs who voted “Present?”


19 posted on 09/20/2013 9:24:26 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: spacejunkie2001

The ObamaCare language is expected to be stripped from the bill in the Senate, setting up a critical week of negotiations next week.

So Obamacare ‘language’ is stripped from the bill, how about Affordable Care ‘language’?

As I read the article, Affordable Care isn’t in the text only obamacare which, technically, doesn’t exist and ‘health care’ law.

Well, how many previous ‘health care’ laws are on the books?


20 posted on 09/20/2013 9:24:44 AM PDT by RetSignman (Standing my ground against group think.)
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