Posted on 06/21/2017 8:28:24 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Two abortion-related provisions in the House-passed bill that rewrites the U.S. health insurance system have been dropped from the Senate’s counterpart version, according to several lobbyists.
A number of GOP offices would not confirm whether those provisions are still in the legislation and several aides cautioned that the working draft is still undergoing multiple revisions and that those measures could still be included.
If those provisions were not incorporated, however, Republicans could face intense backlash from conservative groups who have demanded their inclusion. Several aides said it could also affect the support of conservative senators, calling into question whether Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has enough votes to pass the bill.
The two measures would effectively prohibit federal funding to Planned Parenthood for one year and prevent government health subsidies from being used on insurance plans that offer abortion coverage.
When asked if those two sections would be included in the Senate’s bill, Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas said only, “That’s our objective.”
“We’re doing our best, working with the parliamentarian,” he told Roll Call.
(Excerpt) Read more at rollcall.com ...
Uh, how about dropping funding for abortion on demand forever? Why should tax payers be on the hook as usual?
Crafted in the dark... a bailout for Obamacare.. not just no! How about just drop the whole thing and move on?
5 months since the inauguration, 5 months too long.
“Working with the parliamentarian”...their new scapegoat as to why they can’t enact conservative legislation.
What a cowardly bunch these GOPe politicians are! They want to be able to say in next year’s campaigns that they voted to take funding from the biggest baby killing operation in the world, Planned Parenthood. The trick is that it is only for the one year before the 2018 election. In 2019, these swindlers will probably give PP twice as much taxpayer cash to make up for the one year they withheld funding. This STINKS.
Wilkow talking about this now.
“Abortion provisions (?)” read taxpayers still fund “Planned Parenthood” in “GOP Healthcare” bill!
Who’s Wilkow?
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Most of the Republicans will be happy to see the current effort fail. They don’t want to give Trump any crowing points and they would prefer the system to just collapse into Single Payer.
Where’s the bet pool? You KNOW they’ll have the audacity to run on the “Vote for ME and I’ll vote to end O’Care” theme again in ‘18.
Wonder the excuse from the ‘Freedom Caucus’ and the like when they re-vote the same clowns in again too?
However, as long as President Trump is still standing I will vote straight republican ticket. This current system does not have long to live anyway.
"Abortion Provisions Said to be Dropped From Senate Health Bill"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Unconstitutional federal taxing and spending for abortion is another good example why the ill-conceived 17th Amendment (17A) should never have been ratified, state lawmakers foolishly giving up the voices of the state legislatures in Congress when they ratified that amendment, effectively repealing the whole Constitution by doing so imo.
Note that previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices had clarified, in broad terms, that the feds cannot tax and spend for any issue that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to address, abortion a great example.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
What’s going on with politically correct abortion is this. The post-FDR era, state sovereignty-ignoring justices who decided Roe v. Wade against the states ignored the following. In stark contrast to the rights that the Founding States famously expressly protected with the Bill of Rights, and other rights that the states expressly protected by the Constitution, pro-abortion activist justices wrongly ignored that the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect having an abortion as a right.
In other words, these justices not only wrongly stole unique state powers to regulate abortion, but used those stolen powers to create from the bench the fictitious “constitutional right" to have an abortion.
Sadly, corrupt, post-17A federal lawmakers followed in the footsteps of activist justices and began using the political correct abortion right to exploit low-information women voters.
More specifically, lawmakers won the votes of such women with the assurance of funding for abortion, these women evidently not understanding that the feds have no constitutional authority to tax and spend for abortion purposes.
Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
Remember in November ’18 !
Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.
Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist Supreme Court justices off of the bench.
In fact, if Justice Gorsuch turns out to be a liberal Trojan Horse then we will need 67 patriot senators to remove a House-impeached Gorsuch from office.
Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.
While I Googled the primary information above concerning Iowa and New Hampshire, FReeper iowamark brought to my attention that the February primaries for these states apply only to presidential election years. And after doing some more scratching, since primary dates for most states for 2018 elections probably haven’t been uploaded at this time (March 14, 2017), FReepers will need to find out primary dates from sources and / or websites in their own states.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed above.
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However, as long as President Trump is still standing I will vote straight republican ticket.
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Whatever floats your boat, though I haven’t seen a THING (yet) to make me pull the lever in their favor. That definition of insanity thing...
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This current system does not have long to live anyway.
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I hope you are right, but I think it foolish to believe we’d return to once we started. We couldn’t even make the average 200 yr.\civilization before we swung Socialism (aka ‘Democracy’).
Take a WHOLE lot of peeps, pissed off of being fleeced to even begin that quest and I just don’t see it w/ the over 50% mooch class.
There are many red flags that point to big changes ahead. Washington is no longer a representative form of government and perhaps it hasn’t been for a long time. The big difference is now everybody knows it. I think the Trump presidency is a huge outlier and marks the beginning of people fighting back against an illegitimate government.
The country is more divided than ever before and people have no desire to get along. There is a violent atmosphere in America today. You can cut with a knife. Everything everywhere is hyper-politicized. Look at the recent sniper attack. People are turning more and more to violence. We are primed for a violent event that will push us over the top and into full scale street warfare after which we will be even more irredeemably divided. What happens next who knows but it wont be business as usual that’s for sure.
Mark Meadows was the only one I saw who came out the last time and told the truth.. and he has never been on my radar S a constitutional conservative.
Andrew Wilkow of Sirius XM Patriot.
Thanks.
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