Bachmann to miss vote on spending bill that funds Obama’s healthcare law

The Hill ^ | 121611 | Julian Pecquet

[Fred]

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) won’t be returning to Congress on Friday to vote against a $1 trillion spending package that preserves funding for President Obama’s healthcare reform law, her office told The Hill.

The presidential candidate is campaigning in Iowa on Friday, according to her campaign schedule.

The omnibus is expected to sail through Congress after both parties signed off on it Thursday night. Still, Bachmann has made opposition to the healthcare law a focal point of her campaign and has taken to calling the two front-runners for the GOP nomination “Newt Romney” because of their past support for an individual mandate.

“I won’t rest until we repeal ObamaCare.

[whitedog57]

Traitors all.

[Terry Mross]

So, once again the republicans fund obamacare. I thought their plan was to defund it. Wasn’t that what they ran on?

Cowards! They’ll let the courts decide it and that ain’t good.

See my tagline.

[Fred]

Congress wants to get home so they can blow all the bucks they made on legal congressional insider trading.

[cripplecreek]

The omnibus is expected to sail through Congress after both parties signed off on it Thursday night.

Not a big deal but the media would like it to be.

Reminds me of an attack ad against my congressman who missed 100% of the votes on a particular day. (he was having prostate surgery)

[Thank You Rush]

I’m sure someone here will correct me if I’m wrong but I turned on C Span for a bit today while the vote was supposedly taking place and 12 votes had been recorded and the remainder were in the Not Voting column - the place was empty!!! How do bills get passed when no one is there?

[loveliberty2]

Ahhhh. . . . Bachman's repeated debate attacks on Gingrich are in sharp contrast to her words of praise for him in this video, which includes her attributing the title of "architect" of the conservative movement and "renaissance man," among other high honors, to Gingrich. See: here

[Fred]

It is when you are on media 24/7 saying you will do anything possible to end Obamacare. AND NO she may seem ‘sick’ but she is not having prostate surgery...

[marty60]

WTH???????

[Conservative9]

She should have made the point by returning to DC and voting against it, that is her job, that is what she was elected to do, that is what we give her our money for.

[newzjunkey]

I wonder how many votes she's missed while campaigning for Romney err for president.

Another year and still no Senate passed budget. I expect 2012 will go likewise, particularly when Obama's reelected.

[cripplecreek]

So wasting time to rush back to symbolically vote no on a passing bill would make you happier?

I miss the days when conservatives had a little common sense and decency.

Its no wonder we;ll be stuck with Obama again.

[Fred]

Bachmann is the one that is lacking, not once has she called out Romney.

[marty60]

I would like for Boehner and Company to explain what DEAL was so important that he sold 70% of Americans down the river?

This funding also stayed below the radar screen because it was so often reported—inaccurately—that Congress had not passed any appropriations for the current fiscal year. Obviously, the last Congress chose to fund Obamacare even though they failed to pass any of the regular appropriations bills.

For those who support that new law, this may present no problem. But the process should nevertheless offend their sense of an open, well-publicized and orderly process. The funding of Obamacare is a major concern for those many Americans– including me–who consider the law unwise, unaffordable, and detrimental to affordable and quality health care.

To de-fund Obamacare, it is insufficient simply to deny future funding. Until the full law can be repealed, at least the existing and advance appropriations need to be rescinded, just as the House last month voted to repeal billions of dollars from previous appropriations to 123 federal programs. An effort to restrict use of the funds appropriated within Obamacare was thwarted because the House did not waive the same point of order (House Rule XXI) as it waived to allow de-funding those 123 other programs. This was most unfortunate.

To any who do not realize that over $105-billion has already been appropriated to fund Obamacare, I direct your attention to the February 10, 2011, revision of the Congressional Research Service’s paper, “Appropriations and Fund Transfers in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA),” CRS number R41301. It documents the specific provisions that I’m discussing and the magnitude of those advance appropriations.

[eclecticEel]

not once has she called out Romney

You missed the whole "Newt Romney" line of attack?

[2ndDivisionVet]

The “Leader” of the “Tea Party Caucus” is AWOL.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Fred.

[Sacajaweau]

She talks a good game. Tells you exactly what you want to hear. Snuggles to Cain, then Newt...

Then there's a real vote AT WORK....and she's off playing future queen of america.

[cripplecreek]

Bachmann is the one that is lacking, not once has she called out Romney.

I'm calling you out for being a liar on that statement right there, boy.