Posted on 05/04/2017 11:31:47 AM PDT by exbrit
The House of Representatives today unanimously passed U.S. Representative Martha McSally’s legislation to prevent Members of Congress and their staff from being exempt from the State waiver provisions of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) as amended
(Excerpt) Read more at mcsally.house.gov ...
So are they going to strike the appropriation to fund the ACA for the congress and staffers so they wont suffer a loss to their paychecks?
Congressional candidates don’t run to make a better America anymore but rather to feather their nests. Character and integrity? Please.
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I agree completely.
ONLY if this new health care bill becomes law. These slimy congresscritters are banking on the health care bill NOT becoming law. They could have passed such a law regarding the current Obamacare law any time they wanted.
YA! Martha.
Great, but everyone knows they will take this out in committee when the modified senate version (because there will be one) and the house version are discussed.
Anyone betting it stays in is breathing in unicorn farts.
Unanimously?? Seriously? Wow.
They did, FEHB like all Federal Government employees. But a late amendment to Obamacare put Congress and their staff under their home state's ACA exchanges. I'm fairly sure the move was done by a Republican as sort of a poison pill.
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