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Jonathan Gruber LIED To Congress About Not Writing Obamacare (Video)
Daily Caller ^ | 12/10/2014 | PATRICK HOWLEY

Posted on 12/11/2014 4:05:21 AM PST by tobyhill

Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber lied to Congress when he said that he did not write Obamacare.

Gruber said in a heated exchange with Wisconsin Republican Rep. Cynthia Lummis at Tuesday morning’s Oversight hearing that he did not write Obamacare.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gruber; gruberhearing; jonathangruber; obamacare
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To: tobyhill
Government Rules for the peasants: We'll handle the boring stuff
21 posted on 12/11/2014 4:56:10 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Obama - "I will stand with the Muslims")
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To: IamConservative

You are learned on Free Republic dogma but there is no basis for your claim. It can’t be proven because it is wrong


22 posted on 12/11/2014 4:56:38 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: bert
It can’t be proven because it is wrong

Not following. Are you saying the Republican led house has not ever voted to fund Obamacare?

23 posted on 12/11/2014 5:02:40 AM PST by IamConservative (If fighting fire with fire is a good idea, why do the pros use water?)
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To: tobyhill

Perjury? Dude, he’s a lib; the laws don’t apply to them.

But as far as the lies, that is what libs do. He probably lied before breakfast.


24 posted on 12/11/2014 5:04:50 AM PST by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the altar of gun free zones?)
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To: Jim Noble

Gruber is the most relevant part of King vs. Burwell. Nowhere in the law does it claim subsidies are for the Federal Exchange and quite the contrary, it was designed that way to punish states that don’t setup exchanges.
Besides Gruber’s admissions, the law also never states FPL or Federal Poverty Line, it states a percentage of the poverty line. If they meant the subsidies were for the Federal Exchange then they would have specifically used the model for the FPL and Gruber knew that.


25 posted on 12/11/2014 5:10:03 AM PST by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

Rep Cynthia Lummis is Representative of Wyoming not Wisconsin


26 posted on 12/11/2014 5:16:34 AM PST by tommix2
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To: tobyhill
Gruber is the most relevant part of King v. Burwell

Well, I agree that legislative history is the most relevant part of King v. Burwell, and some of Gruber's remarks (if they are in evidence) supports the plaintiff's case.

But there is abundant OTHER evidence of legislative intent. IIRC, in fact, Baucus and Ben Nelson were both quite clear that they would not vote for a bill with Federal exchanges.

27 posted on 12/11/2014 5:18:57 AM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: tobyhill

There is no accountability in DC. Nothing will happen to anybody.


28 posted on 12/11/2014 5:27:47 AM PST by Rappini (Veritas Vos Liberabit)
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To: tobyhill

I have a feeling he’s gonna be REEEEEEAL popular in prison...


29 posted on 12/11/2014 5:52:58 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: tobyhill; Whenifhow; LucyT; WildHighlander57; hoosiermama; thouworm; crosslink

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2013/11/educator_heal_thyself.html#ixzz3IyCGlksB

But, unfortunately, that wouldn’t neatly align with his sociological credo. Jonathan Gruber is the son of the New York University Stern Finance Professor (Emeritus) Martin J. Gruber, who received his Ph.D. from Columbia, and was once Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research. That’s equivalent to a winning genetic lottery ticket, isn’t it?

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http://www.nber.org

About the NBER
Founded in 1920, the National Bureau of Economic Research is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. The NBER is committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research in a scientific manner, and without policy recommendations, among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community.

http://www.nber.org/custom?q=jonathan+gruber&btnG=Search&entqr=0&output=xml_no_dtd&client=default_frontend&ud=1&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&proxystylesheet=test3_fe&site=default_collection&whichsearch=db&restrict_papers=yes&fullresults=1

NBER Full Author/Title Search Results for ‘jonathan gruber’

http://conference.nber.org/board.html

Directors by Appointment of Other Organizations

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Martin J. Gruber, American Finance Association

http://www.nber.org/FY2013FinancialsSummary.pdf

National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. Summary Statements for the Fiscal Year ended June 30th, 2013

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NET ASSETS, end of year $101,723,584


30 posted on 12/11/2014 5:54:59 AM PST by maggief
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
ObamaCare Is Funneling Billions To Defense Contractors
31 posted on 12/11/2014 6:16:28 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: tobyhill

Headline over small article on page 10 of Mercury News yesterday: “GOP Grills ‘Arrogant’ Economist.”

Front page? TORTURE, TORTURE, TORTURE!!!


32 posted on 12/11/2014 6:20:12 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: IamConservative

...when the vote is symbolic...and they can hide behind the assurance that there is zero chance of their repeal vote being enacted into law.

Makes your blood boil, huh?


33 posted on 12/11/2014 6:24:44 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Old Sarge
Assuming anything happens to him. Which it won’t.

IT is against the law to LIE to Congress whether under oath or not.

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WILL HAPPEN TO HIM, AND EVEN IF CONGRESS FOUND THEIR CAJONES THE IMPOSTER-IN-CHIEF WILL PARDON GRUBER. OBAMACARE IS OBIE'S SIGNATURE LEGISLATION THAT WAS COLLECTIVBELY JAMMED DOWN AMERICA'S THROATS AND PUBLIC OPINION POLLS HAVE NEVER SUPPORTED IT. HE WILL DEFEND IT TO THE DEATH. OBIE IS AN IDEOGLE AND WILL NOT BE DETERRED.
34 posted on 12/11/2014 6:38:48 AM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: tobyhill

Wrong.
The Senate finance committee hearing, live on cspan and recorded for posterity, makes the prima facie case.

I’ve been saying for months that this joker is a distraction. He’s the sacrificial lamb. Focus on actual legislators.


35 posted on 12/11/2014 6:43:32 AM PST by BlueNgold (Have we crossed the line from Govt. in righteous fear of the People - to a People in fear of Govt??)
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To: Cheerio

It all depends on what the definition of “lie” is...


36 posted on 12/11/2014 6:47:03 AM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: thefactor

That was the entire gist of the excuse he used in testimony - that he lied to his audience to elevate his perceived stature.


37 posted on 12/11/2014 7:24:38 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: tobyhill

These days you can lie all you want to congress as long as you are doing it to protect someone in government. They guy has nothing to worry about.


38 posted on 12/11/2014 8:39:22 AM PST by Revel
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To: maggief

When was the dad at Columbia? Who does he have ties with?


39 posted on 12/11/2014 8:40:08 AM PST by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now)
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To: hoosiermama

Academic Background

Bio:

http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/martin-gruber

Ph.D., Finance and Economics, 1965
Columbia University

M.B.A., Production Management, 1961
Columbia University

S.B., Chemical Engineering, 1959
MIT


40 posted on 12/11/2014 9:53:30 AM PST by maggief
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