The September 30 Deadline For Obamacare Repeal Is Fake News

The Federalist ^ | September 20,2017 | Christopher Jacobs

[Hojczyk]

The Senate’s 52 Republicans have multiple options open to keep the Obamacare repeal process alive after September 30. The only question is whether they have the political will to do so.

One Earlier this month, the parliamentarian advised Senate staff of her viewpoint that the reconciliation instructions would terminate on September 30—meaning the bill and process would lose their privileged status and access to the expedited Senate procedures. But her opinion remains advisory and not binding on either the chair or the body as a whole

Option 2: Pass a New Budget

While that requirement has since been changed, Congress could still pass multiple budget resolutions in a given year, along with a reconciliation measure for each. Congress could pass a Fiscal Year 2018 budget resolution with reconciliation instructions for Obamacare repeal this month, complete work on the Obamacare bill, then pass another budget resolution with reconciliation instructions for tax reform.

Political Will

Congressional leaders apparently want to portray the Graham-Cassidy bill as a binary choice—either support it, or support keeping Obamacare in place. The facts turn that binary choice into a false one. Republicans have every opportunity to work to enact the repeal of Obamacare they promised the American people, regardless of the opinion of an unelected Senate official. No legislator should use an arbitrary—and false—deadline of next week to rationalize voting for a bad bill, or abandoning his or her promises altogether.

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[HangThemHigh]

shoulda, coulda, woulda. A deadline last week/month sometime is the same as the end of September to me - unlikely to happen.

[LostPassword]

Senate Republicans WANT the deadline to be real and so it will be. They’ll “get sooooo close” but time will run out. Then all through the election they’ll tell us they REEEEALLLY tried to keep their promise but ran out of time because of the rules. And of course “it can’t be done in an election year”, but “NEXT YEAR for sure it will happen if you re-elect us”.

And, as an added benefit (for them), working on this in September will result in not having any time to work on taxes and the wall and budget and anything else voters care about. If you ask today, they’ll repeat what they’ve been saying for months: “We can do multiple things at a time”. If you ask in December they’ll say they ran out of time as an excuse for not getting anything done this year.

If only they had more time they would have gotten SO MANY conservative things done (those days they aren’t in DC aren’t vacation, that’s when they “connect with voters” so don’t ask them to make more time that way and lose an excuse for not getting anything done)

[DoughtyOne]

I can’t remember a more obstructionist Congress, which is weird in that Congress had a majority of the same party as the president.