Posted on 02/01/2011 12:26:58 PM PST by RobertClark
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) will force a vote on healthcare repeal as early as this week despite pledges from Senate Democrats to block the effort.
McConnell told colleagues during a lunch meeting Tuesday that he will offer healthcare reform repeal as an amendment to legislation on the Senate floor.
McConnell told Republican colleagues during a meeting in the Lyndon Baines Johnson room that he would offer the repeal amendment to the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill, according to a Senate GOP source.
The GOP leader plans to offer his amendment later Tuesday afternoon.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has agreed to allow Republicans a vote on the healthcare repeal amendment because they did not filibuster the motion to proceed to the FAA bill.
Democrats will raise a budget point-of-order objection to McConnell’s amendment because it would add $230 billion to the federal deficit, according to an estimate by the Congressional Budget Office.
Republicans have discounted the CBO estimate as inaccurate, arguing it’s based on “budget gimmickry.”
A senior Democratic aide said a vote on the point-of-order would likely happen on Wednesday. Republicans, who control 47 seats, would need at least 13 Democrats to join them to overcome the 60-vote threshold to waive the objection.
A Senate GOP aide said Democrats should try to find ways to reduce the impact of the law on employers.
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Maybe the moderates are finding their spines after all.
Yes, DO IT!
REPEAL
REPEAL
REPEAL
attaboy!
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How do you repeal a law that isn’t a law anymore?
Oblundercare is dead, for the time being since it was ruled unconstitutional yesterday.
What is this, a roach motel? It took only 50 votes to pass it, but 60 to repeal it?
It’s only partially dead. Obama will use the courts and there will be some slight of hand trickery involved.
Here is what Sen. DeMint had to say about it today in an e-mail from the Senate Conservatives Fund:
Dear Fellow Conservative:
Yesterday, a U.S. District Judge in Florida ruled that Obamacare is unconstitutional. If the ruling stands, it will overturn the 2,700 page, $938 billion bill passed by Congress last year.
In his opinion, Judge Roger Vinson referenced the Boston Tea Party:
“It is difficult to imagine that a nation which began, at least in part, as the result of opposition to a British mandate giving the East India Company a monopoly and imposing a nominal tax on all tea sold in America would have set out to create a government with the power to force people to buy tea in the first place.”
It is difficult to imagine, indeed.
I certainly hope the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the President’s socialist experiment, but freedom-loving Americans cannot count on the courts to solve this problem.
If we want to stop President Obama from taking away the freedom to make our health care decisions, we must force Congress to repeal Obamacare wholesale.
The House of Representatives recently voted to repeal it and now it’s time for the Senate to act. I wanted you to know that I will be working to force a vote as early as this week.
Thanks to your support, all 47 Republicans in the Senate have agreed to cosponsor my bill to repeal Obamacare and can now be counted on to vote for full repeal. This is a tremendous accomplishment, but we still have a long way to go.
There are a number of Democrats up for re-election in 2012 who need to hear from the American people right now. These senators include Jon Tester (D-MT), Ben Nelson (D-NE), Jim Webb (D-VA), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), and Joe Manchin (D-WV). They may not want to listen but it’s important that they know you will repeal them at the ballot box if they don’t help us repeal the bill.
Click here to find a complete list of senators and where they currently stand on the bill to repeal Obamacare.[http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=cdcltncab&et=1104361895333&s=318514&e=001zQrb82NNIryKt34UZhuCrXnvz-cTcqCUhJIXIopcyp9DcjZ4tlzY-2sRqpFm4FYAQ_4wR6GQJjrf5_wfatctmBqHihjiFPKSV2v94rYR_FwQhK2W-FQ6jeEiisb8EIi_YnnUmsUq8_J0Ot2ZJSSpIwXe8MbBrMmloxkiqeOawP_PXgRACUCRkQ==
Winning this battle will require perseverance and patience.
• First, we have to put each senator on record and force them to vote on repeal over and over again so their constituents know where they stand.
• Then, we have to defeat as many pro-Obamacare senators in 2012 as we can.
• And finally, we either have to defeat President Obama or win a super-majority in the House and Senate to override his veto before the law goes fully into effect in 2014.
Stopping socialized medicine won’t be easy but we can do it if we work together. We’ve already made significant progress, and with your help we can expect much more to come.
Thank you for your willingness to fight for the principles of freedom that make America the greatest nation on earth.
Respectfully,
Jim DeMint
United States Senator
Chairman, Senate Conservatives Fund
P.S. The Senate Conservatives Fund only supports candidates who pledge to completely repeal Obamacare. Your support today will help us build the resources we need to elect new leaders who will fight for health care freedom.
The problem I have with this statement is, Congress has the AUTHORITY under the US Constitution to limit what cases the Supreme Court can take up. So why don’t you congress critters USE YOUR AUTHORITY found in the US Constitution to Immediately remove the Supreme Courts ability to Take up this case. A simple majority is all that is needed.
9 simple words would end this now:
THE SUPREME COURT SHALL REMAIN SILENT ON THIS ISSUE
If he keeps hewing to the Conservative line, I might be inclined to rejoin the Republican party.
Really? The congress has the power to tell the SCOTUS what cases they can or cannot hear ? Where’s that in the constitution? (Forgive my ignorance)
Article 3 section 2
In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.
Note to all
READ THE CONSTITUTION
I don’t get it. I thought 2 fed judges said ‘no’ and two said ‘its o.k.’ How would that solve the problem to keep supremes out? I guess each state would be able to decide which is what we want?
Mitch McConnell might be considering COMPRIMISE. If he lets a TAX INCREASE of any kind happen, that will be the the Sucide of the Century for the Republicans.
Mitch McConnell might be considering COMPRIMISE. If he lets a TAX INCREASE of any kind happen, that will be the the Sucide of the Century for the Republicans.
Mitch McConnell might be considering COMPRIMISE. If he lets a TAX INCREASE of any kind happen, that will be the the Sucide of the Century for the Republicans.
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