Official: House GOP Will Vote on ObamaCare Repeal Next Week
- Posted on January 3, 2011 at 9:47pm by
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Via Politico:
The House will vote next week to repeal the new health care law, making good on a top-tier GOP campaign promise and setting up a showdown with President Barack Obama over his signature domestic policy achievement.
Majority Leader-elect Eric Cantor (R-Va.) announced Monday the timeline for considering the repeal legislation: The bill will post on the Rules Committee website Monday night, the Rules Committee will meet Thursday, and the rule for the debate will be considered on the House floor Friday. The repeal vote will follow on Wednesday, Jan 12.
“Obamacare is a job killer for businesses small and large, and the top priority for House Republicans is going to be to cut spending and grow the economy and jobs,” Cantor spokesman Brad Dayspring said in a statement. “Further, Obamacare failed to lower costs as the president promised that it would and does not allow people to keep the care they currently have if they like it. That is why the House will repeal it next week.”
As we reported, House Energy & Commerce Committee chairman Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., suggested Sunday that this vote was on the horizon. But despite Upton’s optimism about having the votes for a repeal, next week’s effort is not expected to succeed. However, the GOP may be successful in scoring a political hit on the Obama White House if they persuade some members of President Obama’s own Democratic Party to join them in supporting the repeal, signaling potential future support for chipping away at smaller but equally unpopular portions of the health care reform law.
Click here to see the Republicans’ proposed repeal bill (PDF).
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Comments (76)
justice
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 5:46amGreat Obama Healthcare. Our Medical went up $188.00 on the month. Got to pay for all those un-assured you know. This White house and Dem-Wits can go to hell in a hand basket. They have ruined this country. I pray in 2012 things will get better.
Report Post »FLDeb
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 4:19amThe Feds power has to be taken away. The power given back to the states. Just that act alone will reduce our debt. The entitlement programs at the fed level have to be dissolved. The federal government has to go back to doing only what the Constitution outlined for them.
Our tax laws need to be revamped. It has amazed me that our history of our founding seems to be lost on so many. When all the taxes, fines, fees are added up – are we not close to what angered our ancestors? I do not care how much money you make, at what PERCENT of your income is a fair amount to give your government? Not enough for elitist to live on in DC? Too bad.
We are a broke nation. We no longer have the money to send to other countries to help them out. We no longer have the money for elaborate life styles for our elected officials. We do not have the money to take care of all the people in our nation that do not want to help themselves. When these fools start talking about the REALLY unnecessary spending being cut, perhaps I will start believing them. Why not start with all the EXTRA tax collectors obama hired this year? We needed that when we are broke – right.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 3:37amObamacare does not come into affect until 2014. Besides, healthcare would be much more efficient if didn’t have an insurance racket to get it–everyone needs healthcare, at some point, indeed many points in there life. In fact, planning head for this eventuality, and proactively involving medical expertise and technology into one’s life definitely improves health outcomes, and what can be more vital, more essentially tied to one’s happiness, one’s capacity to form will and reason, than this? This is aside from the cheapness and efficiency that would must likely come over time, if not immediately, from the luxury of prior planning and efficiencies of economies of scale this would offer. It’s true not everyone will need the exact same kind of specific medical expertise and/or technology or in the same degree, but there‘s no reason why medical firms can’t be in a market system for such commodities, in addition to government contribution towards categories of essential medicine, while private money could go to essential and elective. Nothing wrong with that, but if insurance does become more efficient as it increases its pool to distribute risk, than it would be most sensible to only have one insurer for everyone to be maximum efficiency, and since everyone will need healthcare at least one point, and proactively benefits from having continued access to it, it’s certainly a public good, in the sense that it is universally good–no one is ever not going to benefit by having healthcare. And if we are all going to need it, and it’s more efficient to do it collectively, might as well have it run by people you can fire since they are the least able to price gouge–look at the way public utilities have their profit margins capped. Healthcare is like a public utility, and it would be so much simpler and cheaper to just plan for it, establish essential and elective categories, put a line-item in the budget for the cost of the essential healthcare subsidy, and adjust taxes and spending accordingly to account for debt impact. Done, definitely taking care of more people, and probably for cheaper without insurance companies taking a share of profit, and substantial share of the money that could ALL be going to the doctors, or medical research, or at least SOMETHING that has a tangible connection to healthcare.
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 2:46amIt‘s a symbolic vote because it’ll never pass the senate and it’ll get vetoed even if it does. But it should be done nonetheless. There should be a record of exactly who continues to believe that the people are merely here to provide the government with funding instead of believing that the government is here to serve the people.
Practically it doesn’t matter much at this point anyway. Almost none of it has been enacted yet because it was never funded. They stuffed a billion dollars of funding for it into the tax bill, but that’ll be gone in another week. Then it’s a completely unfunded program again.
In the end if it gets repealed it’ll be by the supreme court on constitutional grounds. Republicans can make an effort but Obama is never going to let a repeal pass his desk and wipe out the only thing he has actually accomplished as president. Even if it is the second worst public policy legislation ever enacted.
Report Post »CatholiConservative
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 1:55amOnly 2 pages long!!!!!
Report Post »calijohn
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 1:38amany estimates on the vote count dem vs rep?
Report Post »overs and unders?
any bets?
Plankchapel
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:54amWhat we DO have to watch for is the SMALL ARMS TREATY!!!
Report Post »Plankchapel
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:51am@ 828 PATRIOT–
The Progressives WANT us to riot! Haven’t you been paying attention? When riots start, Obama declares martial law and TAKES OVER! We do NOT want that. We do not want riots.
CHILL!!!
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 1:07amRight on . but people should find others around them that are like minded and organize saftey in numbers.Be prepared.
Report Post »BringbackCoolidge
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:45amI like the effort, but I don’t think this is the way to get it done. More of a political statement than anything.
Report Post »Moment of Clarity
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 2:41amright – pure politics – not the way to go about this – beat down obamacare bit by bit until there is nothing left but the good parts
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:25amwalkwithme1966: I don’t know where you are getting your facts from. Because from the ones I have seen the popularity of Obamacare is about like a crap sandwich. You really need to wake up in the really real world for once. This bill will do more harm than ever will do any good. Just another way for government control over our deaths now. It’s bad enough that they have so much control over our lives.
Report Post »tobefreeinmt
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:16amThat’s great! Now, how about we repeal the authors of these bills? How about we repeal the Fed? How about we repeal Sunsteen? Oh..wait. Did I say repeal? I’m sorry, I meant dissolve, impeach and imprison!
Report Post »spreadcommonsensenot pc
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:19pmVETO?——————–“repeal” will only happen IF a “conservative” Congress–“conservative” Senate and
Report Post »a CONSERVATIVE—POTUS…………………….This BTTHD progressive thru a wrench in the works–and they
know it
joan k
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:17pmI will hold my cheering until the HC Law as passed is gone.
Report Post »treshall
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:16pmIf there is even the slightest chance that the GOP-led Congress can garner the necessary votes, dear Lord, PLEASE let it happen! To quote one of our friends posting here, “Repeal, repeal, repeal!”
Report Post »iyam
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:11pmthis is awesome. THough it is symbolic it puts this massive piece of legislative bowel movement back in the light the main stream media tried to put to bed after it passed. Once the republicans get to work the more they will uncover and hold up to the America people and say see, this is what the democrats think of you. They will pass 2000 page mandates full of this junk, ridicule people for asking what is in it and how it will affect you and your family and then lie about it and have the MSM cover for them.
The hope then is that we have some good conservative candidates to vote for in 2012 and absolutely send the liberals back to the rocks they slithered out of
Report Post »828 Patriot
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:55pmI’m through putting my faith in politicians. They won’t repeal anything, and by the time they have the seats none of them with have the will to address it. Same goes with the financial bill, starvation (aka food safety) bill, bailouts, stimulus, unconstitutional FCC and EPA regulations, and everything else.
I don’t really care about healthcare anymore, it’s just 1 symptom of the problem.
The real problem is the national debt at 14 trillion and Fed QE2. These will assure the collapse of America even if all of the above listed acts are repealed.
Prepare now, quit wasting your time with politicans and buy the necessary items for you and your family to survive. Buy them now before you need wheel barrels of money to do so.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:55pmWe can never stop speaking out. The HC bill will most likely go into effect. Somehow I hope we can stick it out the next two years without violence. I agree that we have to prepare on every level. I pray the dem’s in the senate will care more about getting re-elected themselves than about the HC bill becoming a reality. They seem willing to sacrifice their loyality to their country maybe they will draw the line when it comes to loosing their own careers. Regardless the republicains can use this as a tool in the coming elections. If in order to pay for HC there will have to be huge cutbacks in other programs the realization of the cost might sink in. The next two years are going to be rough times and I am afraid of the unrest that will follow. However I still believe that good will prevail above evil and that God will give us the strength to ride out this horrific storm that we surely will face.
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:36pmThe house can do a bunch of investigation‘s calling for certain document’s calling people out on the carpet.Don’t repeal just impeach.
Report Post »shorthanded12
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:41pmimpeach naaaaa thats a slap on the wrist, how about criminal charges Yep thats the answer.
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:46pmHe has spent close to 50 million on lawyers to hide something that could put him out of the white house into the big house.
Report Post »13thGenerationAmerican
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:32pmGood luck with that one! LOL
Report Post »828 Patriot
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:29pmGuys don’t forget water in your storage. You can fill up empty 2 liter soda bottles with water, be sure to rotate them once a year though.
Also get lots of canned goods. Tuna has a very long shelf life and is cheap. Beef stew is great and so are Hormeal pouched dinners. Rice lasts indefinitely and should be the backbone of your storage.
Plan for large scale gas and electricity shortages. Get a bike for movement without a car, get a solar oven to cook and boil water without power. Be sure to get Chlorine Dioxide tablets for water purification (not Iodine), lanterns and flashlights with crank power system (they can recharge cell phones too).
Above all, purchase weapons and ammo for home defense.
Report Post »Tipdog
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:26amTuna does have a long shelf life, but contains a fair amount of Mercury. Rice can be shelf stable for a long time, but that depends on how you store it, it will suck up all the moisture in the air and go rancid. About 6 months to a year is all you should trust it before thinking about rotating it, unless you store it in an airtight/moisture tight container.
Report Post »BuckOfama
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:27pmNow this sends a tingle up my leg.
Report Post »sonofapatriot
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:52pmLOL me too! up and down! Now I know how Chris Mathews feels.
Report Post »Make the Stupid People Shut Up
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:16pm…and that is just the beginning. Start in January with the elimination of the Departments of Education and Energy. Don’t raise the Debt ceiling, Shut Down the Government. 85% of what it does is either Unconstitutional, Illegal Immoral or all three.
Report Post »WhiteTeaParty
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:22pmYour ignorance does not surprise me.
Report Post »828 Patriot
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:24pmI would add don’t bailout California to that, but I’m sure the Fed will take care of that despite Congresses wishes.
Hyperinflation, food shortages, gas shortages, electricity rates that ‘necessarily skyrocket’, collapse of the dollar, overwhelming national debt. It’s a ticking time bomb. The riots are coming.
Report Post »StMichelob
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 1:14am@WHITETEAPARTY: Explain, please.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:12pmGo GOP, if you guys want to keep getting elected then listen to the will of the people and act on it.
Report Post »HillBillySam1
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:18pmI am glad that they are moving quickly….even if it passes the House, it will die in the Senate…..we have to keep the pressure on or they will allow it to die and simply use it as a “wedge” issue every election cycle. The American people have to demonstrate to our elected officials that we have no patience for such games anymore.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:27pmI agree, nice to see someone coming in on the right side for a change.
Report Post »Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:12pmRepeal.
Report Post »Repeal.
Repeal.
Down2TheC
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 1:13pm2 pages to kill 2700 pages! Love it! I bet a good replacement could be under 100 pages.
Report Post »joeliberty
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:09pmThis vote is only symbolic because this president is never going to sign a bill that is the direct opposite of what he fought so hard to achieve! Hopefully, in two years we will be able to fully repeal it! There will be plenty of opportunity for the new Congress to put forth bills to cut spending but they will fail when it gets to Obama!
Report Post »WhiteTeaParty
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:11pmNever going to be repealed with the Dems controlling the Senate.
Report Post »WhiteTeaParty
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:13pmIt will be too late JoeLiberty in 2013.
By then almost all of the benefits would of kicked in. New polls today show that more and more American‘s don’t want Obama Care repealed.
Report Post »828 Patriot
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:17pmLook at the bright side, even if they don’t repeal it now it will be repealed during our coming riot and austerity period.
Report Post »marhee9
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:20pmIt is symbolic, but they have to honor the commitment they made to the American people. It’s about keeping their word to those who elected them. It’s going to be the first of many fights to come over the next two years.
http://www.donsmithshow.com – conservative news.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:39pmIt is symbolic, but it will make it clear that ObamaCare goes against the will of the people. This will hopefully galvanize support behind the GOP to help them get enough Senate seat next election to fully repeal this Obamanation.
Report Post »shorthanded12
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:39pmPut that baby killer supporter over there at the Health and Human Service Dept Kathlene Sebelius before a congressional hearing and go after her for making threats to businesses and insurance companies if they dont comply with Obamacare. Defund HHS budget 25%. Choke off all funding to Obamacare period. No money means no government control.
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:55pmRepeal is symbolic, but defunding it is not and they do have the ability to defund and deconstruct it. It will fall.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:17pmIt will put votes on record.
Report Post »CYCLONE
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:29pm@829 patriot… YEP…
Report Post »republitarian
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:31pmExactly, Catb. Let’s get them on record. And not just Republicans, the Dems will have to go on record again. We saw what toll that took last time.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:08am@NICKDERINGER “New polls today show that more and more American‘s don’t want Obama Care repealed” can’t you read – new polls today – people are beginning to like some of the provisions which have already put into effect. It will never be revoked – the best the Republicans can do for the public is to fix any problems that it has! http://maboulette.wordpress.com
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:27am@walkwithme1966
Look!! A NEW poll from the NYT!! It MUST be true. What about this poll? It was taken on November 2. People voted overwhelmingly against the O’Barry agenda.
Just sayin’ ….
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:28amIt’s true that the bills are symbolic, but there won’t be any hiding the facts that the Demos. are out for only one thing and that is too control every aspect of our lives and deaths. If the people don’t see this then they deserve what ever happens. But I will never be for the bill and I don’t need anyone to tell me that its a good bill. Anything that takes over two thousand pages has to be bad and if they have to pass it to know what’s in it, definitely tells me its bad.
Report Post »Plankchapel
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:44amI’ve heard that they have the votes to repeal it. They might even have the votes to overturn a veto.
Report Post »Plankchapel
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:47am@828 –
We DO NOT want to riot!!! If we riot, Obama declares martial law and sends the Congress homje for six months and TAKES OVER!
Report Post »StMichelob
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 1:07amGood. Then on election day, 2012, we can see obama vetoing against the will of the majority of the people, and he will NOT, even with a thousand teleprompters, be able to defend his decisions. Let him roll against us, and God bless Thomas Jefferson!
Report Post »StMichelob
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 1:10am@PLANKCHAPEL IF martial law is declared, then WE the PEOPLE take over. WE WILL NOT STAND for this Tyrant to be in TOTAL CONTROL, PERIOD.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 2:01amNo Compromise! No Compromise! No Compromise! No Compromise! No Compromise! No Compromise! No Compromise! No Compromise!
Report Post »Show the Dems the same graciousness they showed us during closed door meetings, by-passing Senate rules, telling us that “we won.”
I say, the tables are now turned and what was good for the goose, is now good for the gander. No Compromise! No Compromise! No Compromise! No Compromise!
jzs
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 4:22amEveryone go for a checkup now, and have your kids get one too. If you’ve developed a serious condition, such as cancer, get as much treatment as you can now before the Republicans vote to allow insurance companies again to drop your insurance when you are diagnosed with a condition expensive to treat. You may love insurance companies now, but you‘d better get your money’s worth before their death panels are once again allowed to pull the plug on you.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:02amLet repeal OBAMA as well …
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:09amshorthanded12, has it right. Sebelius should be fired and held to account for her intimidation tactics, etc. I do not understand how anyone can support a bill that nobody can understand because it was written to confuse, gives certain favored Unions and others the right to opt out. There is so much wrong with this bill to not repeal it would be criminal.
Report Post »mikem1969
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:39amThe vote at this point is to see how much support they have to repeal the bill. They are doing what they said they were going to do at this point. The people want this bill repealed, and it needs to be done. If we have to wait until 2012 when obama is kicked out of office, then so be it, but at least at this point they can garner support and defund the bill.
Report Post »psst
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:52am@WhiteParty.
Report Post »Umm! That’s more and more ameriKan lemmings.
There are millions on welfare and food stamps across the country.This is a generational thing for many (both black and white)of them. Can’t pry them off the plantations come hell or highwater..
What!! leave the comfort of massa’s crumbs.It‘s scary as hell making one’s own way.Ain’t no way Jose they will venture into the unknown.
They don’t want any government program stopped. What da hey. They don’t have to pay for it.
Methinks that poll is suspect. Driven my the marxist MSM.
vngstr
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:54amHe also will enact title 50 sub 35 of the emergency powers act and will anoint himself as supreme ruler of the US due to and economic emergency. Get ready for anarchy…
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 2:52pmAll spending originates in the House. Period.
It is thus fully conceivable, and fully do-able, to de-fund the beast. And if the sneering rats in the Senate don’t like it, then bring the whole freakin’ government to a halt, a dead standstill, until they move in the direction we want them to.
Report Post »*************************
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 4:29pmREPEAL!
REPEAL!
AND REPEAL SOME MORE! (to paraphrase a certain marxist Kenyan)
BUDDY BIZARRE: “What in the hell do you think you’re doing here? This is a closed set!”
Report Post »boss TAGGART: “Piss on you! I’m working for Mel Brooks.”
-Blazing Saddles