Posted on 02/18/2011 12:13:49 PM PST by Palmetto Patriot
The House on Friday voted largely along party lines to prohibit funding for the healthcare reform law and eliminate funding for family planning.
In a quick succession of two-minute votes, the House adopted three amendments to their stop-gap budget bill that eliminate healthcare reform funding through the end of the fiscal year. The House also approved, 240-185, an amendment barring federal Title X family planning grants that was aimed squarely at Planned Parenthood.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
It has to pass the Senate.
If it passes, it faces a veto by Obama. Override unlikely, but it will be tied around the President's neck as an issue in the next election.
If it fails to pass the Senate, there are 23 Democratic seats up in 2012. Four of them have already announced they are retiring. There is an excellent chance the Majority will change.
The Senate may pass its own version of this Budget, leaving this provision out. It goes to conference at that point. If the house holds strong, there is the possibility of a government shutdown. Again, this becomes an issue in the 2012 elections.
After Jan. 2013, if we control both Houses of Congress, and the White House, this thing is toast.
Even sooner, if SCOTUS rules it unconstitutional.
Indeed. Now we just need to get the Senate in line.
May God give us strength.
Tatt
The people of this country need to hold firm and back the House on this.
Good, there is NO compelling argument to have federal funding of infanticide...none.
That is true, this probably isn’t the entire funding for PP and it can always be added again later.
Finally a group of politicos doing what they were elected to do!
They had better keep this march going forward or their collective asses will be out in 2012!!
There should be no grants for anything. The government should fund its basic functions and that is all.
Remember the past two years.
It was the House Republicans who were solidly opposed to the Administration and the Democratic majorities in Congress.
After standing up for us when times were tough, I have great confidence in them now.
Which would mean that democrats are shutting down the government by refusing to pass the house budget. Har de har!
"It has to pass the Senate.
If it passes, it faces a veto by Obama. Override unlikely, but it will be tied around the President's neck as an issue in the next election.
If it fails to pass the Senate, there are 23 Democratic seats up in 2012. Four of them have already announced they are retiring. There is an excellent chance the Majority will change.
The Senate may pass its own version of this Budget, leaving this provision out. It goes to conference at that point. If the house holds strong, there is the possibility of a government shutdown. Again, this becomes an issue in the 2012 elections.
After Jan. 2013, if we control both Houses of Congress, and the White House, this thing is toast.
Even sooner, if SCOTUS rules it unconstitutional."
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Uh, this is not correct. Pursuant to the Constitution, all bills to spend money must originate in the House. The President can propose any spending he wants to, but that's just for show until the House puts said spending into a bill and send it over to the Senate. Then, if they approve it, the President must sign it for the bill to become law and to actually get the money spent.
So, in this case if the House doesn't put the spending into the budget bill, then the money can't get spent. The Senate and the President can stand on their heads, and it will do no more good than King Cannute getting pissed off about the tide rolling in.
The key here, now that these funds have been stripped out of the bill, is strictly and solely that the House Republicans have to stick to their guns and NOT GIVE IN. Shut the whole GD government down if necessary - and let the whole world know that it takes two to tango. Don't accept the blame for this the way Newt, etc. did in the mid-'90s. People elected a Republican House to control spending and stop Obamacare, so YOU GUYS BETTER DAMNED WELL DO THAT, OR START LOOKING FOR WORK STARTING 1/1/2013.
This is very heartening news.
All the mischief occurs in the Conference Committee.
That’s how Kerry could say, “I voted against [whatever] before I voted for [whatever]”..............
excellent news
Now the senate will whine, but they can’t do anything about it other than try again.
time to send thank you’s to the ones who did what we wanted.
The House GOP should make it plain they won’t vote for anything out of the Conference that puts the funding back.
I don't know how this works, but I thought I read that because of this manuever the GOP-controlled House could restrict or completely deny future funding, but would need consent of the Senate and the President to strip/repeal funding that has already been budgeted.
I hope I'm wrong. (And I probably am...)
For the people who continue to argue that there is no difference between Republicans and Democrats, this headline ought to make you use your head and think through what you believe.
Remember what happened today when Election 2012 comes.
That’s where things get hairy.
Many members will have to vote, (D) or (R), for the bill because it will have funds in it for stuff in their districts.
If they vote against it, they’ll lose their funding and their opponent in the next election will have a campaign issue to tie around their necks, “Old So-and-So voted against the [fill in the blank]!”...........
THIS, my FRiends.........is a GOOD day for America!
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