Posted on 02/02/2015 6:30:57 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) introduced an “Obamacare Repeal Act” that would repeal the Affordable Care Act “as if such Act had not been enacted.”
The text of Cruz’s bill to repeal the 2,700-page law — which spawned another 10,000 pages of regulations — barely runs onto the third page. It comes as Republicans have debated whether to use a procedural tactic that circumvents filibusters known as reconciliation to repeal the legislation.
“This repeal bill is pro-growth, pro-jobs, and pro-liberty,” Cruz says in a statement on the bill. “It provides time for Congress to start over, to pass true market-based reforms that will allow the purchase of insurance across state lines, expand health savings accounts, and make health insurance, personal, portable, and affordable.”
The bill is co-sponsored by 44 Senate Republicans, including Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) and several leading members of the Obamacare working group that is mulling the GOP’s possible response to a major anti-Obamacare lawsuit pending before the Supreme Court. If the Court rules against the administration, Americans who enrolled in Obamacare through the federal exchanges would not qualify for subsidies.
“We must send this bill to the president’s desk,” Cruz adds. “If he vetoes it, the GOP Congress should pass bill after bill to stop Obamacare. Each will have broad support among the American people, and Democrats in both chambers will be hard-pressed not to support them. The President will be faced with a clear choice: either listen to the American people, who have never supported this law, or ignore them, and ignore the disastrous harms to millions of families, young people, and the most vulnerable among us.”
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“The bill is co-sponsored by 44 Senate Republicans, including Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell”...Sounds good but I won’t get my hopes up.
Thank you Senator Cruz for all you do.
I meant it as a pointed reminder to all of the Scott Walker supporters. And to Rush if he happens to peruse this site. He’s been shilling for Walker for the past couple of weeks, and it’s really starting to p!ss me off.
McConnell is probably a co-sponsor so he can vote in the majority and then bring a motion to reconsider.
Cruz/Walker 2016
My governor may be a RINO but he did sign the bill into law that allows us to pay a retainer to doctors who will give us basic medical care without the insurance.
Liberals and insurance companies don’t much care for it.
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That’s tagline material right there.
Ted, you’re gonna need personal bodyguards, a metal neck shield, a food taster, and a vehicle manufactured prior to 2014. Also toss the smart phone, tear up your credit cards, and only pay in cash...
I wonder which degenerate GOP animals in the Senate are not co sponsors.
Only 23 more yes votes to go.
You would think, that with the MAJORITY of this country’s disdain for this forced “law”, that finding 23 more votes would be a no brainer.
(Same for a two-thirds majority vote in the House. But, no. The ruling class doesn’t want to give up their 0bolaCare gravy train.)
I think Rush uses this site as show prep.
Any conservative radio host that doesn’t is a fool.
pfl
Co-sponsors:
Alexander; Ayotte; Barrasso; Blunt; Boozman; Burr; Capito; Cassidy; Coats; Cochran; Cornyn; Cotton; Crapo; Daines; Ernst; Fischer; Flake; Gardner; Graham; Grassley; Hatch; Hoeven; Inhofe; Isakson; Ron Johnson; Lankford; Lee; McCain; McConnell; Moran; Paul; Perdue; Portman; Roberts; Rounds; Rubio; Sasse; Scott; Shelby; Thune; Tillis; Toomey; Vitter; Wicker.
The complete text of the bill is available at:
http://www.cruz.senate.gov/files/documents/Bills/20150202ObamacareRepealAct.pdf
Is that to say you won’t vote Walker if he is the Republican candidate?
I’ll only vote for him if he’s the republican candidate for vice president, and Ted Cruz is the candidate for President.
A Great Step Forward!
Leaders Lead. Ted’s Leading!
Thanks!
Second that! Walker could learn about true reform from Cruz!
Thank you! I was just going to try and find out the names of the co-sponsors. You saved me some time:)
It will be interesting to see how many of these co-sponsors actually end up voting for it. I see some suspicious names. If nothing else, it will show us which repubs really mean it when they say they want to repeal it. It brings the liars out in the open.
Perfect.
And the GOPe will howl.
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