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To: Jane Long; Jim Robinson
Yes, the House voted explicitly to defund Obamacare.

The House holds the purse strings...for ALL *programs*...and authorizes funding, each year.

No, not for all programs. Some programs are continually funded through multi-year/no-year discretionary funds and/or mandatory funding provided within prior legislation.

If the House does not take explicit action to adjust, suspend, or repeal prior funding for those special programs, then that funding remains in effect. The House does not vote every year to continue funding Social Security and Medicare. Those programs have funding unless and until the House says they don't have funding anymore. That's how it works.

50 posted on 09/23/2013 3:09:18 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: BuckeyeTexan
Right. Agree. It's call DEFUNDING. (Which is what the House did on 0Care, last week.)
52 posted on 09/23/2013 3:11:11 PM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs stay silent.)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Is that multi-year thing in the constitution or just a gentlemen’s agreement?


54 posted on 09/23/2013 3:17:21 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

So, in other words, they’re knowingly lying to the American people when they say social security checks won’t go out and our soldiers won’t be paid?

Why, the dirty, rotten basturds.


55 posted on 09/23/2013 3:22:16 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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