Posted on 09/20/2017 7:34:58 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
The Senate Thursday approved on a largely party line vote a budget bill that would repeal Obamacare and defund Planned Parenthood, two top priorities of Republicans who control the chamber.
By voting to nullify Obamacare -- the signature domestic accomplishment of the Obama administration -- GOP congressional leaders fulfilled a longtime pledge to voters and rank-and-file members to get a repeal to President Barack Obama's desk, even though he will veto it.
While the House and Senate have voted scores of times to repeal portions of Obamacare, this was the first time they are using a special tool known as "budget reconciliation" that allow the measure to clear the Senate with just 51 votes instead of the 60 votes typically required for major legislation. That higher threshold has allowed Democrats to block all past repeal efforts.
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Oh.
Oops
This was in 2015.
Hmmm
Congress could do it then but not now?
Why is that?
Thank you! Finally!
House better seal the deal
Man you got me,
didn’t see the date!
2015
old days, 2015, before the Republicans could actually do it.... now that they should be able to do it, they don’t.
So, what is keeping them from sending this exact same bill to President Trump?
You knew when you posted it that it was 2015, didn’t you? Troll much?
“Six Republicans Who Voted for Obamacare Repeal in 2015 Sank the ‘Clean Repeal’ Bill Today”
http://reason.com/blog/2017/07/26/six-republicans-who-voted-for-obamacare/amp
07/26/2017
“In 2015, when presented with a bill that would have repealed much of Obamacare’s taxes and regulations, Senate Republicans were eager to send a political message. Though the bill would be vetoed by then-President Barack Obama, 52 Republicans voted “aye.”
With 48 of those 52 senators still in office, the Senate on Wednesday could muster only 45 votes in favor of a “clean repeal” of Obamacare. Six senators who voted for the 2015 bill voted against the repeal effort.”
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Something about the slimy bastards knowing 0bola would veto it, I suppose ...
Cowardice. Corruption. Dishonesty. They're socialists. They're swamp creatures.
“You knew when you posted it that it was 2015, didn’t you? Troll much?”
Only when necessary to wake up the useful idiots.
“Broken promise: GOP-run Senate votes down clean repeal of ObamaCare, 45/54”
07/26/2017
“Two years ago [2015], with Obama’s veto waiting in the wings, only Susan Collins and now-retired Mark Kirk voted against clean repeal. Today, with an opportunity to send clean repeal to the House:
It isn’t April 1st.
Only idiot on this thread is you.
“Only idiot on this thread is you.”
Sharp as a marble according to my wife and kids.
Can’t do what you disagree with when it counts.
Bastone dove il sole non brilla
Hey. I made it on your homepage list.
I feel so special.
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