Posted on 12/17/2015 12:15:52 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Thursday that House members will vote on a rollback of ObamaCare as one of their first acts of 2016.
"When we return in January, the House will put an ObamaCare repeal bill on the floor and pass it and put it on the president's desk," Ryan told reporters Thursday. "We are going to keep working to give families relief from this law while we work to dismantle and replace it altogether."
The vote on the legislation, which has already passed the Senate, will set up a veto battle with the White House just ahead of the State of the Union address.
After its passage, President Obama would have 10 days to veto the bill. Lawmakers' vote to override Obama's veto is doomed to fail and would take place on Jan. 26, The Associated Press reported Thursday.
The bill is the product of months of work by GOP chairmen in both chambers to repeal as much of ObamaCare as possible through an obscure budget process known as reconciliation.
Reconciliation, which can only be done when one party controls both chambers, allows Republicans to send a bill intended to dismantle ObamaCare to the president's desk for the first time. Unlike other legislation, a reconciliation bill can be passed with just 51 votes in the Senate.
While the bill does not fully repeal the law, it would eliminate the most significant pieces, including requirements for everyone to buy health insurance and most businesses to offer it.
The bill would also defund Planned Parenthood, a measure that has been long sought by anti-abortion advocates after a string of viral videos targeting the organization surfaced this summer.
When asked Thursday why the government spending bill does not defund Planned Parenthood, Ryan said the only way to get the bill to the president's desk is through reconciliation, which limits what types of provisions can be included in the bill.
"It's the vehicle we chose long ago. We knew we couldn't get it to the Senate any other way," he said.
But he didn’t de-fund 0bamaCare in Tuesday night’s OmniCrap Spending Bill.
Bait and switch.
Ryan is the Uniparty.
Kick the can? Go play by yourself Ryan, have better things to do.
Ryan is looking like J. Boehner,but without the tears and the lying. Who inspires Paul Ryan, the Supreme turncoat known as Judge John Roberts?
If Obama really wanted to watch the Republicans freak out he'd sign the bill.
Paul Ryan is an absolute fool if he honestly believes he can recover from the budget he just effed us over with. If Paul Ryan was an honorable man, he’d take his own life after betraying his country in such an extreme.
The only difference that I can discern with Boehner is that Ryan is not a public drunk.
Too little, too late, Ryan. You’re a traitor and shouldn’t even be allowed in Congress.
Did the catholic bishops give ryan his cash yet? Will ryan attend the commie pope’s service at the border in february and get another payoff?
O'rly? The great "rectifiers" of Congress are working furiously to bring judgment upon themselves.
It will take no effort at all for God to bring true relief. Another SOTU, another opportunity for a massive sinkhole to open underneath Capitol Hill and swallow up the miserable lot of them whole.
Is Congress inviting muslims to the next one? That might be Congress' last act of desecration...
This may seem like a show-vote, but I suspect it’s far more sinister than that. The GPOe want to serve their masters by getting employers immunity from providing health insurance for their employees. In the meantime, in their budget deal they agreed to fund every immigration and cheap labor measure that the US Chamber of Commerce wants.
What a liar and poltroon. I wish him ill.
a speechless ping
I thought he was trying to look like Aaron Rodgers.
Same thought :):)
First you fund it in a bill that you know the president will sign then you defund it in a bill that you know the president will not sign. How cool is that?
He is treated in the same manner his party treats the AMERICAN people. I am not listening so I have heard nothing the beard has spoken.
TRUMP + CRUZ = JUSTICE FOR ALL AMERICANS!!!
Ryan is such a buffoon.
All you had to do was defund it and it would have dies of it’s own weight.
If not there d@mn sure is a democrat that can, if the republicans vote for the dem, which may be the only way to unseat him and they d@mn well better.
Then why did you vote to fully fund it today?
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