Posted on 12/03/2015 2:58:39 PM PST by Alter Kaker
The latest bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act contains a provision to strip federal funding to Planned Parenthood. Three Republican Senators want to remove the item, according to The Hill.
Republican Senators Mark Kirk (Ill.) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) have filed an amendment with Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) that would remove the Planned Parenthood provision from the reconciliation proposal currently on the Senate floor.
As is, the repeal bill aims to block federal funding for Planned Parenthood for one year and reallocate the money to other community health centers, according to the report. Republican leaders have conveyed confidence they can get the 51 votes required to push the reconciliation bill through the Senate this week.
However, the three senators have conveyed concern over the linkage between the ACA and Planned Parenthood, and have not commented on whether they would support the legislation to repeal the healthcare reform law during a final vote. Even if the senators fail to remove the Planned Parenthood language from the repeal bill, President Barack Obama is expected to veto the bill if it passes through the Senate.
So far, their amendment has been filed but has not yet been scheduled for a vote.
Lisa Murkowski
Lets all remember how the GOP got her elected. She lost the primary, but the GOP still supported her as the write in candidate.
Could be the model they use if Trump or Cruz wins the nom.
Yes what the GOPe did FOR Murkowski is a example, along with what they did AGAINST McDaniels and Cuccinelli of what they would do to Cruz and get away with it.
Find them and make them squeel like the pigs theyvare.
She has such a low conservative rating, why isn’t she getting primaried.
the same old usual RINO suspects
Even when she loses a Primary, the GOP supports her.
The usual traitors. No surprise here.
I guessed the Maine and Ak Senators to be involved with this, missed the ill one.
Can’t fight those big donations.
There is no "GOP." There is a Uniparty. Call it NWO, Illuminati, Bilderberg, whatever. The system must go one, with slight variations for taste permitted, such as "Democrat" and "Republican" to suit the public mood. But the same show goes on regardless of who sits in "power." Unless this system is smashed, nothing will change.
Susan Collins (Maine); Mark Kirk (Illinois); Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)
Collins is not up for re-election in 2016,
but Kirk and Murkowski are.
Do they have any good competition in the primaries?
“She has such a low conservative rating, why isn’t she getting primaried.”
Bide you time. The filing deadline for Alaska is June 1. The primary is not until Aug. 30th.
Time for citizen legislators to rise. I am sure Trump would support them enthusiastically.
Wonder why Sarah doesn’t run for Murkowski’s seat?
How did I already know who they were before reading the article?
Mark Kirk is toast, and he knows it. I know of absolutely NO Illinois Republicans who will vote for him. They won’t, of course, vote for Tammy Duckworth, either. They will either leave that race blank or write in someone (which is what I’ll be doing).
Mark Kirk will survive the primary, but will get clobbered in the general election.
“Could be the model they use if Trump or Cruz wins the nom.”
That is my fear. The ‘loyalty oath’ should go both ways.
She was primaried in 2010. Lost to a Tea Party candidate named Joe Miller.
So she ran a write-in campaign. I remember video of republican operatives handing out cards with the phonetic spelling of her name, so people wouldn’t misspell it on the write-in ballot. Traitors.
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