Obamacare, Spending and IRS in Spotlight on Capitol Hill
The President unveiled his budget yesterday that would raise taxes on the wealthy and increase spending for social programs, defense and infrastructure. Republicans are opposed to most of the proposals. Today theyll get a chance to question both the .
House GOP Try to Justify Spending 15% of Their Time on.
A very defensive Speaker Boehners office sent out a preemptive missive declaring that Republicans have only actually tried twice before via a stand-alone bill to rescind the health care law.. House Republicans have voted to repeal ObamaCare before, but since Democrats have the majority in the Senate, Republicans are going nowhere again on this, their 37th effort.. But the Obama administration has asked for more money for the IRS to enforce the new law.
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 | Kaiser Health News
President Barack Obama invited 10 Obamacare enrollees to the White House on Tuesday to fulfill two aims: guilt Republicans out of voting for repeal and goad procrastinators into signing up.. Most of Obamas guests in. The House passed a bill on Tuesday to repeal the Affordable Care Act for the first time in the new Congress, but Democrats appeared to show more zeal in defending the law than Republicans did in trying to get rid of it. The measure goes now to��.
Paul Ryan Unveils Budget, Makes White Rabbit Our New.
But because the modern GOP seems to have the memory of particularly stupid goldfish, Paul Ryan was free to go on Fox News Sunday the other day and drop some straight up ridonkulousness regarding his new budget plan,. We thought the GOP had given up on this repeal nonsense after failing more than 30 times to repeal Obamacare during the last Congress... Tax cuts for rich assholes, no cuts to defense and if you happen to get sick, pray you die quickly?
The top ten reasons not to vote Republican in the midterms
Maybe if you buy 50 repeal votes, you get one free. We get it.��� No one likes them. The lowest point in the average of the polls that Nancy Pelosis Democrat-led House ever reached was 17%, as Obamacare was being passed.. they have spent the entire Obama years using racial divides as a political weapon,��� Bill Maher argued earlier this year, later going on to argue that Fox News called the New Black Panthers scary, but portrayed white militia members as heroes.
McConnell suggests ObamaCare cant be repealed with 51 votes
on Tuesday said it would take 60 votes in the Senate to repeal ObamaCare despite previously suggesting the law could be erased with a simple majority. It would take 60 votes in the Senate, and no one thinks were going to have 60 Republicans [after.
Monday, February 2, 2015 | Kaiser Health News
Paul Ryan ��� will lead a working group to develop an alternative to Obamacare, the House Republicans most serious attempt thus far to develop their health care reform package, according to GOP sources... the House Budget Committee chairman, promised Sunday on Fox News that a Republican budget would re-imagine Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, and ���will do what the American people have to do with their homes and in their businesses every��.
An Obamacare Replacement? Dont Believe The Hype
But given that Republicans have been unable to reach consensus on much beyond repealing Obamacare in the last five years, thats an ambitious timeline. This pattern has been repeating itself since 2009. Just this week, House Republicans approved yet .
House Republicans seek ObamaCare repeal, more defense $$ in new budget.
House Republicans, unveiling their first budget blueprint since the party took control of Congress, issued a sweeping spending plan Tuesday that calls for complete repeal of ObamaCare, major changes to Medicare and controversial moves to boost defense .
Supreme Court ruling could upend Obamacare politics
Most of them are in states that use the federal exchange, rather than running their own, and those are the people who lose their financial assistance if the court rules against the White House in the case known as King v. Burwell. Up to 8. It would.
The GOP Mustnt Offer Obamacare Lite
There is a secret that people outside of Washington, D.C., arent aware of right now: Some Republicans in Congress are on the verge of proposing an alternative to Obamacare that imposes new tax hikes on the American people. On March 4. Instead, they.
Republicans hope latest anti-Obamacare bill will be first to reach presidents.
To get the Obamacare repeal bill on Obamas desk, Republicans are considering a controversial budget procedure known as reconciliation, which was used to pass parts of the original Affordable Care Act legislation.. reason to hold a vote on it: as.
An Obamacare Replacement? Dont Believe The Hype
Just this week, House Republicans approved yet another bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and this one included language charging three House committee chairmen with devising a replacement plan.. The proposals precise effect on the uninsured is hard to tell, but under the prevailing assumptions of most forecasting models -- including those used by the Congressional Budget Office -- the likely impact would be more people without insurance and/or much��.
The Left Is Tired Of Persuasion
Its true that liberalism doesnt have anything exciting and new to offer ��� even its plans for the Internet are drawn from 1930s telephone legislation ��� but the only thing the Left is really tired of is selling its ideas to skeptics. Its largely given.
Paul Ryan Budgets Obamacare Repeal Challenged By.
Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan previewed the Republican House Budget Committees budget on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace today, where he laid out some of the envisioned changes to entitlement programs. Even as��.
Heres Democrats first chance to obstruct Republicans on.
House Republicans insisted on its repeal, along with a one-year delay in Obamacare implementation, in their ill-fated government shutdown demands last year (again, thinking they had bipartisanship on their side).. [new] The budget limits are BS. This tax is not.. And armchair conservatives across the country will watch Fox News and will nod in angry agreement about these cowardly worthless Democrats clearly obstructing the will of the American people.
House votes to delay Obamacare for a year, government.
Posted 2:46 pm, September 28, 2013, by FOX 13 News, Updated at 11:04pm, September 28, 2013. Facebook �� Twitter. WASHINGTON (CNN) ��� House Republicans pushed through a spending plan early Sunday morning that would delay Obamacare for a year and repeal its tax on medical devices. The vote. Thats because passage of the amendments sends a temporary budget resolution back to the Senate, where Democrats vow to again block the anti-Obamacare amendments.
The Ryan Budget Shows What Republicans Want To Do To.
The chances of the Republicans wining majorities in the House and Senate big enough to pass a repeal, and override the inevitable presidential veto, are so slim that its a waste of ink to even include repeal in a budget.. Could it be that Ryan is as outraged as Fox News anchor Stuart Varney that states are continuing to help the poor feed themselves by tying food stamp eligibility to home heating assistance, making more low-income families eligible for food stamps?
Mitch McConnells Obamacare gambit
Private talks over the matter began in the summer of 2012, when the GOP thought it would take back the White House and Senate. But with control of both chambers in 2015, the budget strategy has picked up new urgency and will be a prime focal point of a .
McConnell pressed to repeal ObamaCare with budget move
���Republicans should use reconciliation to fully repeal ObamaCare,��� said Ken Cuccinelli, president of the Senate Conservatives Fund. ���Voters know that nothing is a bigger threat to the budget and our economy than ObamaCare. Sen. McConnell is on record .
GOP Battle Cry: Repeal Obamacare, Cut Spending | The.
The interesting thing is that this years Pledge to America concentrates more on substantive issues of governance than the Contract With America did 16 years ago. Yes, the. One is to roll back non-defense discretionary spending to 2008 levels.. But wouldnt it hurt Republicans, if they have a House majority, to get into a budget fight as it hurt Newt Gingrichs new majority back in 1995?. Enterprise Institute, a Fox News Channel contributor and a co-author of The.
Republicans take control of Congress: Can Obama, GOP end perpetual conflict?
Tuesdays big electoral wins have handed the reins of Congress to Republicans for the remainder of President Obamas term, but immediately raise the question of whether the next two years will bring more acrimonious gridlock ��� or some compromise on key.
Boehner: GOP will have ObamaCare alternative this year
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is pushing back against new criticism that the Republican Party lacks a plan to replace ObamaCare, even as it renews its effort to repeal the law. ���There will be an alternative, and you will get to see it,��� Boehner told.
Conservatives Hatch An Illegal Scheme To Repeal The.
By: Jason Easley more from Jason Easley. Since the CBO has already concluded that repealing the ACA would increase the budget deficit by $109 billion, Senate Republicans cant legally use the budgetary process to repeal Obamacare.. it goes back to us house were republicans have to get a two thirds majority vote a total of 290 votes in the us house to overirde obama veto in us house the problem republicans only won 250 seats in us house so republicans��.
This week: Homeland Security funding and ObamaCare top agenda
We have 47 new members of Congress on the Republican side who have never had the chance to cast their vote to repeal ObamaCare, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told Fox Newss Bret Baier in an interview last week. But unlike previous ObamaCare .
The Case for Kasich
But no Republican politician would run a more fascinating, provocative, original campaign.. Kasich has cited the passage repeatedly of late in defending his Obamacare-fueled Medicaid expansion���an act of Republican apostasy that prompted widespread.
Obama Promises That He Will Happily Veto Republican Bill.
During remarks at the House Democratic Issues Conference, President Obama made it clear that he will happily veto the 60th attempt by House Republicans to repeal Obamacare.. He Will Happily Veto Republican Bill To Repeal Obamacare. By: Jason Easley more from Jason Easley. If they try to unravel new rules that we put in place to make sure Wall Street recklessness doesnt hurt American families again, Ill be happy to veto it. If, rather than try to solve the��.
GOP Renews Effort To Repeal Obamacare �� Pat Dollard
���We say we get rid of Obamacare, ��� Ryan said on ���Fox News Sunday.��� Ryan, the chairman of the. ���It made it more realistic in my mind,��� he said about the experience, ���something that I much better understand.��� House Republicans have launched an ambitious goal to bring the federal budget into balance in 10 years, a task made easier by the $1.2 trillion in sequester cuts, as well as the New Years tax increase on wealthier Americans. Ryan also relies on more than��.
GOP searches for elusive Obamacare fix
In the nearly five years since the law passed, there have been dozens of repeal votes ��� but not a single vote on a replacement plan in either the House or the Senate. And a ���replacement��� that unwinds most of the Affordable Care Act would never become.
The (Not) Governing Majority Fractures Over Spending
Republicans have the majority in the House and Senate, and it is up to them to come forth with a cohesive budget plan that they can pass. Here is a look at the. The New York Times lays out the Republican divisions, in ���Chasm Grows Within G.O.P. Over Spending���:. ���This is a war within the Republican Party,��� said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, who has vowed to oppose a final budget that does not ensure more military spending. ���You can��.
Tuesday, February 3, 2015 | Kaiser Health News
the House Budget Committee chairman, promised Sunday on Fox News that a Republican budget would re-imagine Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, and ���will do what the American people have to do with their homes and in.. But the issue is taking on new urgency for the GOP congressional leaders as the court takes up a case that could leave more than 5 million people without Obamacares crucial subsidies... Politico: Vaccination Foes On The Defensive
GOP unveils new ObamaCare alternative
The plan ��� released the same week that the House cast its first vote of the year to repeal ObamaCare ��� will compete with several other replacement options as the GOP tries to coalesce around a response to a looming Supreme Court decision that could .