Posted on 03/20/2010 7:07:53 AM PDT by SE Mom
Edited on 03/21/2010 5:00:38 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
10 AM Rules Committee meeting (C-span2 LIVE all day)
11 AM Stupak press conference
12 PM Demonstration at the Capitol
3 PM Obama meets with the Democratic caucus
Sunday
2 p.m.: The House will debate for one hour the rules of debate for the reconciliation bill and the Senate bill.
3 p.m.: The House will vote to end debate and vote on the rules of the debate.
3:15 p.m.: The House will debate the reconciliation package for two hours.
5:15 p.m.: The House will vote on the reconciliation package.
5:30 p.m.: The House will debate for 15 minutes on a Republican substitute and then vote on the substitute.
6 p.m.: The House will vote on the final reconciliation package.
6:15 p.m.: If the reconciliation bill passes, the House will immediately vote on the Senate bill, without debate.
UPDATE FROM D.C.
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LOL. Don’t drink it all!
Keep one thing in mind during these horrific times -— Success is the best revenge. We can’t let them get away with it.
Stop screaming! Barf-o-rama!
We can’t wait! Health care is a right!
Congressman Lewis, if health care is a right, then why am I being forced (at the point of a gun) to pay for it with my tax money?
Oh my GOD, John Lewis should be ASHAMED.
Yes, I sent it to Greta also and it took place shortly before last year’s first vote — so early November 2009 or late October 2009.
I thought he may have a flask in his pocket....LOL!
15,000 IRS thugs—all hired from ACORN.
Not only will I not watch the Pacific, but I will not buy it for anyone, nor will I frequent anything related to Speilburg or his frequent producer Kathleen Kennedy, no relation.
LOL. Thanks!!!!
I certainly fear that our nation is being overrun tonight with no shots fired! If the crooks can pull this off then they can do anything they want to....there is nothing we can do. Watch now for the immigration bill...it will also play out just like the terrible health care bill...but they will pass that too. Since they do not serve the people, we have no voice. I do not believe the Nov. election will change anything. They have the power now to see that the results are just as they want them.....God Bless the America that used to be.
I screamed at the computer! Who was that guy? He sounded like Calypso Louis Farrakhan!
There's not enough bourbon in AMERICA for that!
Subjects to citizens to subjects in less than 250 years.
Did you ever think you’d see this in your lifetime? I never did. I can’t help thinking that we lost our Representative Republic today.
Thanks, Kittie...can we have hope again tonight that this will be stopped?
Ditto the rest part.
“...no one would consider doing the same to a returning vet today.”
Tell me about it... almost turned around and went back to Europe.
But under King Hussein, that will return...
From my automatic email:
“STATEMENT BY THE NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE
ON ABORTION “DEAL” ON HEALTH CARE LEGISLATION
WASHINGTON — (Sunday, March 21, 2010, 6 PM EDT) — In response to today’s announcement regarding an agreement between Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mi.) and President Obama on the pending health care bill (H.R. 3590), the following statement was issued by the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of right-to-life organizations in the 50 states:
The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) remains strongly opposed to the Senate-passed health bill (H.R. 3590). A lawmaker who votes for this bill is voting to require federal agencies to subsidize and administer health plans that will pay for elective abortion, and voting to undermine longstanding pro-life policies in other ways as well. Pro-life citizens nationwide know that this is a pro-abortion bill. Pro-life citizens know, and they will be reminded again and again, which lawmakers deserve their gratitude for voting against this pro-abortion legislation.
The executive order promised by President Obama was issued for political effect. It changes nothing. It does not correct any of the serious pro-abortion provisions in the bill. The president cannot amend a bill by issuing an order, and the federal courts will enforce what the law says.
To elaborate: The order does not truly correct any of the seven objectionable pro-abortion provisions described in NRLC’s March 19 letter to the House of Representatives, which is posted here: www.nrlc.org/AHC/NRLCToHouseOnHealthBill.pdf
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Regarding Community Health Centers (CHCs), NRLC has documented the problem created by H.R. 3590 here: www.nrlc.org/AHC/NRLCMemoCommHealth.html.
Prof. Robert Destro, a professor of law and former dean of the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America, and an expert on abortion-related litigation, has sent lawmakers a letter explaining why the bill opens the door to direct federal funding of abortion in Community Health Centers: www.nrlc.org/ahc/DestroLetterToStupakOnCommHealthCenters.pdf
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Prof. Destro clearly explains why it is the statutory language that will govern.
Regarding the new program to provide tax credits to purchase private insurance, the executive order merely tinkers with the formalities of a bookkeeping scheme under which federal subsidies will pay for plans that cover elective abortion — a break from the longstanding principles of the Hyde Amendment.
The order does nothing at all to mitigate the other abortion-related problems described in the NRLC letter, dealing with bill provisions that create dangerous regulatory mandate authorities, revise Indian health programs, and create pools of directly appropriated funds that are not covered by existing restrictions on funding of abortion. Nor can the order correct the omission from the pending legislation of the necessary conscience-protection language that had been included in House-passed health care legislation last November (the “Weldon language”).
For additional information regarding the abortion-related components of the legislation, and NRLC’s assessment of the gravity of these issues, please refer to the March 19 letter linked above, and other materials posted on the NRLC website at www.nrlc.org/AHC/Index.html. “
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