http://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/10/sen-al-franken-obliterates-republicans-plan-replace-obamacare.html
Posted on 01/11/2017 4:26:48 PM PST by Libloather
With the incoming Trump administration wanting to repeal Obamacare, Rep. Nancy Pelosi tried defending how it was passed.
PELOSI: The Affordable Care Act was passed not under reconciliation when it first came to the Congress. So the main part of the bill — House and Senate — was not under reconciliation. But the bulk of the bill — if you look back to the history of it — the bulk of the bill was done on the 60-vote rule, not under reconciliation.
CNS NEWS REPORTER: But it passed without a single Republican vote.
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She manages to bring in donations. Given the choice between doing their Constitutional Duty, or being paid off not to do it, they always choose the latter.
They gutted another house bill and put in the ACA language. First bill had passed with both sides voting yes....second vote with ACA language in house had no R support. Read the history for more info.
Do I remember correctly that she was the one PUSHING it through with*We have to pass it to find out what’s in it?*
What a LIAR!!!!!
Truth: Not a single GOP vote to pass the law. However, every Continuing Resolution since 2011 has been passed by the GOP House and then the GOP Senate since 2013. They may not have voted for it but we wouldn’t have it without the GOP’s help.
Nancy is probably thinking about the bipartisan support she received behind the scenes to pass it. The elites of both parties wanted it... or we wouldn’t have it.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/10/sen-al-franken-obliterates-republicans-plan-replace-obamacare.html
Passage under the 60 vote rule would have required bi-partisan support.
Your fixation on socialized medicine is really becoming quite tiresome.
Let the free market take care of it, the only thing needed is interstate portability and interstate access.
If you don’t like that idea please leave and go to Canada, England, or Cuba.
No way was it bipartisan. No way. No republicans voted for it.
A day of infamy.
Your memory is faulty. The PPACA did not get a single Republican voted in either House of Congress.
She’s mentally incompetent
The only market reform ever introduced into the government side of Healthcare was the Medicare Drug Plan. It was spearheaded by Tom Delay and the Republicans.
Hillary Clinton's attempt to takeover the US Healthcare system was thwarted by ... yes, that's right ... the Republicans.
The real problem with our Healthcare system is that the government has TOO MUCH involvement. Republicans need to get the market in, and the government OUT.
She says she’s “Catholic.” I.e., she’ll say ANYTHING.
With her as minority speaker we should be able to kick 500 more dem state and federal pols to the curb over the next 4 years.
Every time this hag speaks we get more people to see what the left is all about and more dems lose their job. She does have some value, not for the dems of course, but for us.
I have avoided saying this for years, but there is no other way to respond.
You, sir, are an idiot.
It's like demanding that a new president "fix the Space Shuttle Challenger!"
The booze on her Airforce 757 and the Botox has pickled her itty bitty little brain.
So sorry Nan Nan
Trump is flushing the sshitsandwich you Rats forced America to eat.
I hope you eat shit someday.
No, the Democrats had 60 votes at the time, as she acknowledges.
I didn't even see her use the word then. It's possible if I play enough videos she might use it, but I'm not going to do that.
My point isn't about her, it's about the writer of the article and the headline. It's very misleading because that's not at all what she says.
"A conversation about the process of "reconciliation" -- a technical term -- is pretty opaque to the rest of the country and goes right over our heads, so it does have to be put into other words."
It's certainly possible most people don't know what "reconciliation" means in this context, but that doesn't make "bipartisan" a substitute for it. They are two different things. It is pointed out to Pelosi that the Democrats has 60 votes and she acknowledges that. She does not appear at all to be making a point about being "bipartisan". Instead, she's making a point about using the reconciliation process now, which she says isn't right because that wasn't used before. That might be debatable, but it's wrong to cast that argument as one about being "bipartisan".
Fix it by getting Govt OUT of the healthcare business. Entirely.
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