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Ryan promises vote next month to roll back ObamaCare, on Obama's desk before State of Union
The Hill ^ | December 17, 2015 | Sarah Ferris

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.


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; abolishobamacare; budget; obamacare; reconciliation; ryan; speakerryan
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

But he didn’t de-fund 0bamaCare in Tuesday night’s OmniCrap Spending Bill.

Bait and switch.

Ryan is the Uniparty.


21 posted on 12/17/2015 12:23:29 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (The GOPe / RINO / Uniparty wants a Cruz v. Trump Death Match. Don't give it to them.)
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To: headstamp 2

Kick the can? Go play by yourself Ryan, have better things to do.


22 posted on 12/17/2015 12:24:32 PM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

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?


23 posted on 12/17/2015 12:24:56 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
"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."

If Obama really wanted to watch the Republicans freak out he'd sign the bill.

24 posted on 12/17/2015 12:25:29 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

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.


25 posted on 12/17/2015 12:27:33 PM PST by drypowder
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To: lee martell

The only difference that I can discern with Boehner is that Ryan is not a public drunk.


26 posted on 12/17/2015 12:30:15 PM PST by laconic (M)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Too little, too late, Ryan. You’re a traitor and shouldn’t even be allowed in Congress.


27 posted on 12/17/2015 12:30:21 PM PST by Kenny (RED)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

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?


28 posted on 12/17/2015 12:30:41 PM PST by biggredd1
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To: faithhopecharity
$1.6 more billion
I believe the figure is 1.6 trillion.
29 posted on 12/17/2015 12:31:32 PM PST by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; MeshugeMikey
"We are going to keep working to give families relief from this law while we work to dismantle and replace it altogether."

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...

30 posted on 12/17/2015 12:36:52 PM PST by Ezekiel (All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

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.


31 posted on 12/17/2015 12:44:37 PM PST by be-baw (still seeking)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

What a liar and poltroon. I wish him ill.


32 posted on 12/17/2015 12:45:14 PM PST by WENDLE (Trump is not bought . He is no puppet.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

33 posted on 12/17/2015 12:46:16 PM PST by OwenKellogg (CRUZ to Victory! Donate at tedcruz.org. The Trump Tsunami does not need your money.)
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To: carriage_hill; rodguy911

a speechless ping


34 posted on 12/17/2015 12:46:32 PM PST by thouworm ("The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." --Orwell)
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To: LS

I thought he was trying to look like Aaron Rodgers.


Same thought :):)


35 posted on 12/17/2015 12:48:30 PM PST by patriotspride
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

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?


36 posted on 12/17/2015 12:51:29 PM PST by itsahoot (Anyone receiving a Woo! Woo! for President has never won anything after the award.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

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!!!


37 posted on 12/17/2015 12:51:35 PM PST by V K Lee (u TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP to TRIUMPH Follow the lead MAKE AMERICA GREAT)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Ryan is such a buffoon.

All you had to do was defund it and it would have dies of it’s own weight.


38 posted on 12/17/2015 12:54:00 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Rusty0604
I hope there is a conservative in his district that can beat him.

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.

39 posted on 12/17/2015 12:54:23 PM PST by itsahoot (Anyone receiving a Woo! Woo! for President has never won anything after the award.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Then why did you vote to fully fund it today?


40 posted on 12/17/2015 12:55:15 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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