Senate Republicans Plan to Repeal Obamacare With 51 Votes
Source: Bloomberg
The Majority Leader is hoping to lay the groundwork for a Republican president to kill the Affordable Care Act.
Jul 28, 2015 2:15 PM EDT
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell championed a renewed push to bypass a filibuster and repeal Obamacare with 51 votes on Tuesday, he announced in a joint statement with Utah Senator Mike Lee, one of the most conservative Republicans in the chamber.
"Republicans are united in working to repeal the broken promises of Obamacare," McConnell said in the statement, adding that the Senate will "continue our effort to use reconciliation ... to fulfill the promise we made to our constituents."
Lee, who has often been at odds with McConnell, has long advocated using Senate procedures to try and kill the president's health care law. "A Senate vote to repeal Obamacare on a simple majority basis through reconciliation is the best way to pursue that goal," Lee said in the statement. "The Majority Leader and I are committed to using reconciliation to repeal Obamacare in the 114th Congress."
The gambit is unlikely to succeed due to procedural roadblocks in the Senate, and even if Congress were to pass a full repeal bill President Barack Obama is guaranteed to veto it. But the issue is a flashpoint in the Republican presidential race, where candidates are facing questions about how far they'd go to repeal the health care law.
Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-07-28/senate-republicans-plan-to-repeal-obamacare-with-51-votes
forest444
(5,902 posts)Sucker.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)forest444
(5,902 posts)While you're playing checkers, they're playing chess. Don't get so caught up in semantics.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)An amendment is supposed to only be applicable under reconciliation if it is germane to the underlying bill. How is the ACA germane to the freakin' HIGHWAY bill? This is a clear abuse of process, IMO.
But Obama will veto it, and vetos cannot be overridden using reconciliation.
I do hope the "i'll never vote for Hillary" crowd is watching, though.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)have a horse?? the republicans will gladly beat it to death for you
asjr
(10,479 posts)Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)kimbutgar
(21,164 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)more tilting at the Obamacare windmill rather than cutting taxes for rich people, etc.
Old Union Guy
(738 posts)Not that I expect that to happen, but what is their game plan?
Making it like it was before isn't even possible.
Gothmog
(145,345 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)These fuckers just won't quit.
We've got to get these assholes out of office.
The hard on they have to hurt poor and working class people is of extra viagra proportions.
Peace
ruffburr
(1,190 posts)Go right on ahead , If they managed to pull this off, I believe that would be the end of what's left of the Republicans and the beginnings of Medicare for all, So morons go right on ahead till the wheels fall off the clown bus.(a-holes)
Merlot
(9,696 posts)People currently in the middle of treatments, people with pre-existing conditions. People who don't know they're sick. They'll die without medical attention.
The dems need to point this out, loudly.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)ananda
(28,868 posts).. for further career advancement.
So if they want that cushy job later, they will vote as required.
Vinca
(50,285 posts)they want to lose the vote of millions of people who won't be able to see a doctor if "Obamacare" goes away? Who the heck advises these people?
Historic NY
(37,451 posts)If they win the White house they will then be able to rule like they want.
jalan48
(13,871 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)There are millions of your constituents that you will be killing.
Their families will remember....
packman
(16,296 posts)full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing. Wish they would pick their noses away from the public's eye.
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)Go Bernie!
It's time to pull the rug out from under these capitalist pigs.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Putting the turtle right back where he belongs.
And if not, she will veto this crapola as President.
Stuckinthebush
(10,845 posts)With a Vice President Sanders and Democratic Senate she will be a helluva powerhouse!
peacebird
(14,195 posts)With VicePresident of his choosing and a Democratic Senate he will be one helluva powerhouse!
Stuckinthebush
(10,845 posts)Sure.
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)otherwise the GOP would have filibustered it.
the one problem: Obama's veto.
d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)And if they're hoping for a Republican President they won't get one.
phleshdef
(11,936 posts)geretogo
(1,281 posts)death as the pigs carry their Bible around and say " I am pro life " the fetus must be saved .
BumRushDaShow
(129,144 posts)Kabuki theater at its finest.
What a f*cking waste of time.