Posted on 03/21/2010 12:49:59 PM PDT by CWW
Driehaus confirms: Eight or nine pro-lifers are having a press conference at 4, with Stupak.
Right clean house and take down all the bluedogs, even the few that are still voting against this bill! They are the ones that gave us the democrat majority and Pelosi as majority leader. They are all to blame no matter how they voted.
“Eight or nine pro-lifers are having a press conference at 4, with Stupak”
They are NOT “pro-lifers” by any stretch.
Stupak about to get Ben Nelson’ed. Enjoy the attention Stu!
Is there a blue dog that’s not in a winnable Republican district? Or one whose pro-life position is more than a handy facade for representing a pro-life district?
I think neither.
Our only hope now is to repeal it in 2011, and we all what that will require.
Of course he caved.
He just wanted attention under the ludicrous pretense of having integrity.
Here is the deal with the devil...
EXECUTIVE ORDER
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ENSURING ENFORCEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ABORTION RESTRICTIONS IN THE PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” (approved March ¬¬__, 2010), I hereby order as follows:
Section 1. Policy.
Following the recent passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“the Act”), it is necessary to establish an adequate enforcement mechanism to ensure that Federal funds are not used for abortion services (except in cases of rape or incest, or when the life of the woman would be endangered), consistent with a longstanding Federal statutory restriction that is commonly known as the Hyde Amendment. The purpose of this Executive Order is to establish a comprehensive, government-wide set of policies and procedures to achieve this goal and to make certain that all relevant actors—Federal officials, state officials (including insurance regulators) and health care providers—are aware of their responsibilities, new and old.
The Act maintains current Hyde Amendment restrictions governing abortion policy and extends those restrictions to the newly-created health insurance exchanges. Under the Act, longstanding Federal laws to protect conscience (such as the Church Amendment, 42 U.S.C. §300a-7, and the Weldon Amendment, Pub. L. No. 111-8, §508(d)(1) (2009)) remain intact and new protections prohibit discrimination against health care facilities and health care providers because of an unwillingness to provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortions.
Numerous executive agencies have a role in ensuring that these restrictions are enforced, including the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
Section 2. Strict Compliance with Prohibitions on Abortion Funding in Health Insurance Exchanges. The Act specifically prohibits the use of tax credits and cost-sharing reduction payments to pay for abortion services (except in cases of rape or incest, or when the life of the woman would be endangered) in the health insurance exchanges that will be operational in 2014. The Act also imposes strict payment and accounting requirements to ensure that Federal funds are not used for abortion services in exchange plans (except in cases of rape or incest, or when the life of the woman would be endangered) and requires state health insurance commissioners to ensure that exchange plan funds are segregated by insurance companies in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, OMB funds management circulars, and accounting guidance provided by the Government Accountability Office.
I hereby direct the Director of OMB and the Secretary of HHS to develop, within 180 days of the date of this Executive Order, a model set of segregation guidelines for state health insurance commissioners to use when determining whether exchange plans are complying with the Act’s segregation requirements, established in Section 1303 of the Act, for enrollees receiving Federal financial assistance. The guidelines shall also offer technical information that states should follow to conduct independent regular audits of insurance companies that participate in the health insurance exchanges. In developing these model guidelines, the Director of OMB and the Secretary of HHS shall consult with executive agencies and offices that have relevant expertise in accounting principles, including, but not limited to, the Department of the Treasury, and with the Government Accountability Office. Upon completion of those model guidelines, the Secretary of HHS should promptly initiate a rulemaking to issue regulations, which will have the force of law, to interpret the Act’s segregation requirements, and shall provide guidance to state health insurance commissioners on how to comply with the model guidelines.
Section 3. Community Health Center Program.
The Act establishes a new Community Health Center (CHC) Fund within HHS, which provides additional Federal funds for the community health center program. Existing law prohibits these centers from using federal funds to provide abortion services (except in cases of rape or incest, or when the life of the woman would be endangered), as a result of both the Hyde Amendment and longstanding regulations containing the Hyde language. Under the Act, the Hyde language shall apply to the authorization and appropriations of funds for Community Health Centers under section 10503 and all other relevant provisions. I hereby direct the Secretary of HHS to ensure that program administrators and recipients of Federal funds are aware of and comply with the limitations on abortion services imposed on CHCs by existing law. Such actions should include, but are not limited to, updating Grant Policy Statements that accompany CHC grants and issuing new interpretive rules.
Section 4. General Provisions.
(a) Nothing in this Executive Order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect: (i) authority granted by law or presidential directive to an agency, or the head thereof; or (ii) functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This Executive Order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This Executive Order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity against the United States, its departments, agencies, entities, officers, employees or agents, or any other person.
THE WHITE HOUSE,
I agreed with you about 5 hours ago! LOL
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2475972/posts?page=130#130
Great e-mail. I also e-mailed them (their voice mail box is full - surprise, surprise)... I had 3 points:
1) Why put up that “Vote Count” when they constantly had guest after guest state differing opinions.. they are playing into the hands of the democrats trying to create “momentum”
2) Why report this lie about the tea party people? - there are plenty of videos of the Black Caucus strolling through the protesters without a *single* recording of any such language.
3) The coverage of the march on Saturday was horrible! No shots of the crowd, no coverage of the speeches, BUT the nail in the coffin was when Cavuto called these patiotic Americans “Locusts”... That my dear Fox “Friends” was when I turned off your network.
A stroke of the pen and this is toilet paper.
Stupak got rolled just like I’ve been saying all along. You’re right - deal with the DEVIL.
EXECUTIVE ORDER
0kaka's Executive Orders are toilet paper. 0b0z0 should use them to toilet-train himself.
StupIDak fell in it, as expected!
Fear is "a distressing emotion caused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc." What is needed is for the threat to be actualized.
It’s not just MI that is full of traitors but the whole country!
Yes, but their constituents don’t believe that and will retain them indefinitely.
Cavuto is a traitor. I started to suspect him back when Bush wanted the Dubai Ports deal and was met with so much flak he stepped away from it. Cavuto and Gibson were both outraged that people were against it! They spoke (and looked) in a condesending way like the people were just paranoid or stupid.
0 has lined his bank accounts with millions, no tens of millions, make that hundreds of millions of $$ by merely obfuscating. I’ll bet Bill and Hill are POed that they only got a few mill from skimming.
0 can easily bribe these dickheads to get them to do his bidding.
And he believes Obama’s promise will hold through an Executive Order? Executive Orders do not trump legislation. Heaven help this country.
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