Posted on 01/03/2017 9:15:09 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The new Congress was sworn in on Tuesday, and the first thing it did was prepare to repeal Obamacare.
Senate Budget Committee Chair Michael Enzi (R-WY) introduced a budget resolution Tuesday that includes "reconciliation instructions" that enable Congress to repeal Obamacare with a simple Senate majority. Passing a budget resolution that includes those instructions will mean that the legislation can pass through the budget reconciliation process, in which bills cannot be filibustered.
That means Republicans will only need 50 of their 52 members in the Senate, and a bare majority in the House, to pass legislation repealing the Affordable Care Act. According to the Wall Street Journal, the budget resolution could be passed by both houses as early as next week....
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
I’m worried, I might get addicted to all this winning.
Hi, I am nwrep, and I have been a winner for 6 months. I cannot stop winning.
The GOP needs to use a tremendous amount of care.
Americans elected Trump, who said ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare.
Repeal. And replace. We do not need to simply repeat Obamacare.
That would be a MASSIVE blunder, in my humble opinion.
Me too, but it needs to wait until the Kenyan leaves office. If it passes “as early as next week,” he can veto it.
Go away commie.
Blah, blah.
He would veto it if it is passed on to his desk....I would think the plan would be to wait until Trump is sworn in.
You need to REPEAL it first. Then later you can work on replacing it. But need to get rid of it FIRST.
Go away commie.
Leverage. More tools to negotiate with. Looks like it’s going to be a full frontal assault.
Holding my breath, it’s not a done deal yet and I don’t entirely trust the Republicans. I will dance a jig when it actually happens.
I do not want politicians in charge of my health.
I say a repeal immediate with all of the current individual subscribers polices grandfathered for 10 years. They can keep their plan. then no issues going forward.
Tom Price has a plan ready to go.
Mr. Trump the repeal of Obamacare is complex. Unless reviewed from all angles, there could be unforeseen consequences that could prove damaging to your Admin. Get numerous eyes on any new plan. Tax folks, insurance folks, and lawyers!
This is how the demoncrats managed to pass the thing without the original bill being reconciled. They would never have passed it in final passage because the election of Scot Brown who took the senate seat in Mass.
So the house passed the senate bill...remember? Then they used the budget reconciliation for final passage. That was signed by Obastard in March?
The Obastard care bill was NEVER passed by reconciliation of the House and Senate bill.
Well, don’t send it to the presidents desk until the President is Donald J. Trump. Then we’ll get it signed. It’s vetoed if it gets there any earlier.
i dont care how they do it...but they most of all have got to KILL THE MANDATE THAT YOU HAVE TO BUY INSURANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!....that was a once in a 100 year fluke election in 2008... and the commies rammed it thru. Destroy that mandate, and it”ll be decades before they can ever pass that again.
“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.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —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.
Patriots need to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.
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