Price Applauds Passage of Bill to Stop IRS Enforcement of Obamacare (Press Release)

http://tomprice.house.gov/ ^ | August 2, 2013 | Tom Price

[Whenifhow]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Tom Price, M.D. (GA-06), applauded the passage of legislation he introduced H.R. 2009, the Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act today, saying:

“By voting to prohibit the IRS from implementing or enforcing any part of President Obama’s health care law, the House of Representatives has taken an important step toward protecting the health care of American citizens today. The Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act has the support of over 140 cosponsors in the House and has been endorsed by numerous organizations and thousands of Americans who share our commitment to preventing any of our fellow citizens from having to answer to the IRS when it comes to their personal health care decisions.

“The IRS clearly has not been able to prudently and impartially enforce current tax laws. It has abused its authority by targeting individuals and organizations. There’s no reason to trust this massive agency with one of the most personal aspects of our lives – our health care.

“Instead, we ought to be empowering individuals and families to make their own health care decisions. There are many positive ways to pursue a patient-centered health care system. But to get there, we need the Obama Administration and Senate Democrats to stop siding with the Washington bureaucracy and to start standing up for the rights and health care choices of the American people.”

[Whenifhow]

Congressman Tom Price, M.D., is the vice chairman of the House Committee on the Budget. He is also a member of the House Committee on Ways and Means, as well as the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. An orthopaedic surgeon, he spent more than 20 years caring for patients in the metro Atlanta area.

[Deathtomarxists]

To all the conservatives in congress, keep it up, don’t give up, we canwin this battle. We are behind you 100%!!!!

[Graewoulf]

Thanks, Doctor Tom.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Big EFFING Deal. So, how would 0bama ‘solve’ this? He would put the HHS, TSA, DHS, EPA, or Social Security Administration in charge of it. There is NO good solution for who oversees Obamacare. SOMEONE will oversee Obamacare and it won’t be acceptable, regardless.

[driftdiver]

Sure its great. Does it stand a chance of passing the Senate or being signed into law?

[Whenifhow]

Perhaps the thinking was that the IRS has so much power and they have not shown they are up to the task (sharing taxpayer info online for example).

[SeekAndFind]

Ahhh, but what happens when this bill reaches:

1) The Harry Reid Senate

(and even if we were to pass that unlikely hurdle )...

2) Obama’s desk?

Wouldn’t it have the same effect as the House passing bill after bill (count them, 37 times, the most recent one by Michele Bachmann ) to repeal Obamacare?

[Whenifhow]

Don’t know how this will play out, but people have been asking for congress members to stand for principles.

The momentum is building, think positive and go to town halls if possible, Make your voices heard.

http://www.whiterosesociety.org/WRS_pamphets_first.html

If the German people are already so corrupted and spiritually crushed that they do not raise a hand, frivolously trusting in a questionable faith in lawful order in history; if they surrender man’s highest principle, that which raises him above all other God’s creatures, his free will; if they abandon the will to take decisive action and turn the wheel of history and thus subject it to their own rational decision; if they are so devoid of all individuality, have already gone so far along the road toward turning into a spiritless and cowardly
mass - then, yes, they deserve their downfall.

[novemberslady]

So he's applauding this vote which means nothing. NOTHING.
It accomplishes nothing.

Did he also vote to exempt himself and his staff from obamacare?
That vote will actually matter.
Will he be applauding that vote too?

[Piranha]

Will he vote to keep money for Obamacare out of the continuing resolution?

[Whenifhow]

Tom Price is applauding this vote based on what is shown in this video - Werfel is not cooperating - fiery exchange between Issa and Werfel.

11:56 Minutes
Chairman Issa Announces Subpeona for Witheld IRS Docs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cI1_Vd2CQo

If you have the roll call vote list for this vote, please share.

The exemption was provided to congress - if there was a vote on that, please share that information.
Here’s one article:

Congress to get Obamacare exemption: report
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3050360/posts
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/congress-to-get-obamacare-exemption-report-2013-08-02?link=MW_popular

However, the Office of Personnel Management now plans to rule that the government can continue to make a contribution to the health-care premiums of the lawmakers and their staff, it said, citing unnamed congressional sources and a White House official.

[Whenifhow]

There was no vote. It was done by way of a “ruling” of the Office of Personnel Management.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2013/08/02/guess-whose-healthcare-premiums-arent-going-up-next-year-n1654588

[nathanbedford]

The meaningless vote and Dr. Price's self-congratulatory message applauding the vote are designed to provide cover for failing to defund Obamacare.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Tom Price is a great guy but is this going to fly in the Senate?

[showme_the_Glory]

If the left really thinks this is such a future vote killer for the GOP, they would be figuring out how to slip them a few extra votes.

[Whenifhow]

See post 8
Momentum is building....the Obamacare law is affecting people’s lives. (including democrats lives)

In the hearing yesterday a congressman said he gets text messages from his constituents.

Make your voice heard - loud and clear.

Look at Scarborough - he thinks it is embarrassing...

3:39 Minutes
Scarborough Lashes ‘Embarrassing’ Congressmen Who Refuse To Face ObamaCare Fees They Voted For
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Daqi7zJsEaE

[B4Ranch]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3050422/posts
House votes 232-185 to block the IRS from enforcing ObamaCare

[Whenifhow]

House votes 232-185 to block the IRS from enforcing ObamaCare
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3050422/posts

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/315267-house-votes-to-block-irs-enforcement-of-obamacare

[sport]

I was listening to one of those who are trying to "defund" obamacare on either Beck or Hannidity. I can't remember which. He admitted that it could not be defunded. It can be repealed, but that will not happen. It would take a Republican House, a Republican Senate, and a Republican President. Once the Republican House give the Democrat Senate a Immigration Reform Bill. The Republican Party is dead.

I intended to write, the United States was dead, but in reality, the United States died November 4, 2008.

obamacare and Immigration Reform will complete the transformation of the United States of America to a Banana Republic

[novemberslady]

There was no vote. It was done by way of a “ruling” of the Office of Personnel Management.

Very slick of them.