Posted on 01/09/2015 6:59:38 PM PST by Jim Robinson
The House on Thursday in a 252-172 vote approved legislation that would waive fees on businesses that do not offer health insurance to employees working fewer than 40 hours per week.
The legislation – which has been at the center of a heavy corporate lobbying campaign – only received 12 Democratic votes. Eighteen Democrats backed the bill during a House vote on the same issue last spring.
No Republicans opposed the measure.
The White House has threatened to veto the bill, which strikes at the healthcare law’s mandate that businesses provide insurance.
The legislation is the GOP’s first chance to deliver an anti-ObamaCare bill to the president’s desk. It will now advance to the Senate, where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has promised it will see a vote.
Republicans said the current statute gives employers an incentive to cut workers' hours to avoid paying fines as a result of the healthcare law. The healthcare law imposes fees on businesses that do not provide health insurance to employees who work 30 hours per week.
“The law punishes employers who provide workers with full-time jobs,” said House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-Minn.).
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Take yur pill and swallow it, you Bum.
What has been waived can be reinstated.
Sideshow.
The only things Obama will listen to are a full government shutdown and Articles of Impeachment.
Anything less is a waste of time and energy designed by the GOPe to make it look like they are doing something.
Would 252 votes be enough to override a veto? Not familiar enough with that aspect of the US Constitution.
Stupid sidebar crap.
REPEAL OBAMACARE!
You can forget about them repealing obamacare. It is not going to happen.
[reinstating the union supported standard 40 hour work week] only received 12 Democratic votes.
Living proof that the democrats don’t give a crap about the working class.
It’s a start. How will Obama explain to the people that he had to veto this?
Yet another show vote from these clowns. The bill will be filibustered in the Senate and of by some miracle they clear that hurdle it will be vetoed. Then we’ll be exactly where we are right now.
Takes 2/3 in both houses.
The title of this piece contradicts the text. Which is it, did the house vote the measure down, or has it passed and is expected to be eventually vetoed by barky?
“The House on Thursday in a 252-172 vote approved legislation that would waive fees on businesses that do not offer health insurance to employees working fewer than 40 hours per week.”
They voted down ObamaCare’s 30 hour work week.
It would be most helpful for my kids if they would completely dump this Obamacare beast.
They will be happy to have more than 29 hours and not need to keep going through second jobs that aren’t always willing to work with the main job schedule.
My son didn’t sign up for Obamacare, I guess he will find out what happens come tax time.
STOP (forced) TOTALITARIANCARE, CONgre$$. All of it.
It will never be reported widely is my guess. So nothing will happen just the status quo it will be as if it never happened just like all the other crap O does.
Get Obama to use that veto pen as much as possible to set the Dims up for 2016.
Exactly!
We’re not going to hear from the corrupt, RINO-controlled House that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate commerce which reasonably includes regulating vote-winning minimum wage. This is evidenced by the following excerpt from a Supreme Court case opinion.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
The states uniquely control 10th Amendment-protected intrastate minimum wage.
Remember, the 10th Amendment is probably one of the best-kept secrets in corrupt DC.
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