Cantor: Repeal push is still on

The Morning Plum
* White House talking points on Bill Daley: The White House is distributing a set of talking points to outside allies -- sent over by a source -- on how to sell the Bill Daley pick: Talking Points: Bill Daley * Bill Daley brings with him tremendous experience, strong values and a forward-looking vision to this White House. He will be critical to the President's mission of growing our economy and moving America forward. * From his time as President Clinton's Commerce Secretary, Bill Daley has ...

Veto threatened for healthcare repeal
Published: Jan. 7, 2011 at 8:01 AM U.S. President Obama will Veto House Republicans' attempt to Repeal the healthcare law if the Repeal Legislation reaches his desk, the administration said. UPI/Olivier Douliery/POOL WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. President Obama will Veto House Republicans' attempt to Repeal the healthcare law if the Repeal Legislation reaches his desk, the administration said. In a statement of administration policy released Thursday by the Office of Management and Bud...

CBO: Health care repeal would add $230B to debt
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- It's one of the promises on which House Republicans campaigned: If elected, we will Repeal Health Care reform. One problem: Rolling back the law would probably increase federal Budget Deficits by a total of about $230 billion by 2021, according to a preliminary estimate released Thursday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The long-run outlook isn't any better. The CBO warns that long-term projections are highly uncertain, but said a Repeal would increase fede...

Repeal effort defines GOP House debut
The president's Health Care overhaul may already be done, but some Republicans want it undone. Just ten months after the Democrats' reform Legislation was signed into law — and before most of its major elements have been implemented — the House of Representatives is kicking off the new year and the new Congress by trying to undo what was done last year. Next week, the House, now under Republican rule, will vote to Repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) signed ...

Chairman Ryan: The Democrats Worst Nightmare
This week, the Democrats’ worst nightmare came true: Paul Ryan became the Budget Committee Chairman. It’s their worst nightmare because he’s the two things they can’t deal with: calm and logical. Thursday afternoon, I got this statement from Chairman Ryan’s office on the Democrats’ Duplicity with regards to ObamaCare: WASHINGTON - House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan issued the following statement with respect to House Republicans’ continued efforts ...

Paul Ryan: We Do Plan on Defunding ObamaCare
Friday, January 07, 2011 By Matt Cover Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in this March 19, 2010, photo. Republicans are promising to Repeal and replace President Barack Obama's Health Care overhaul if they win control of Congress. (AP File Photo/Harry Hamburg) (CNSNews.com) - House Budget Chief Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said that Republicans would use the appropriations process, along with the budget process, to deny funding for the Controversial ObamaCare ...

Health care repeal could deepen govenment red ink
Repealing President Barack Obama‘s landmark Health Care overhaul would add billions to government red ink and leave millions without coverage, Congress’ nonpartisan Budget referees said Thursday ahead of a politically charged vote in the House. House Speaker John Boehner brushed off the Congressional Budget Office analysis as emboldened Republicans, now in the majority in the House, issued their own report arguing that Obama’s coverage expansion would cost jobs and increase bud...

Lieberman 'Open-minded' on changes to health care reform
The Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate is seen as a bulwark against Republican efforts to undo Health Care reform, but Sen. Joseph Lieberman says that he is going into the debate with an "open mind" about what changes, if any, would make sense. Lieberman said he does not favor repealing the entire law, but he wants to consider all the options as Congressional Republican push to unravel the Health Care overhaul. "I'm trying to keep opened-minded, listening to people who do want to Repeal or change...

Dems Still Working Hard To Thwart The Will Of The People On Health Care Reform
As most of us know, the American People were dead set against the passage of the so-called “Affordable Care Act,” which started out with the notion of reducing Health Insurance costs and providing coverage to the 30-45 million Americans that had no health Insurance, and escalated to a 2,000 page bill that none who voted “Yea” actually read nor understood, and did anything but reduce Health Insurance costs. We’ve all seen the fallout, that insurance costs would go up...

Dems Still Working Hard To Thwart The Will Of The People On Health Care Reform
As most of us know, the American People were dead set against the passage of the so-called "Affordable Care Act," which started out with the notion of reducing Health Insurance costs and providing coverage to the 30-45 million Americans that had no health Insurance, and escalated to a 2,000 page bill that none who voted "Yea" actually read nor understood, and did anything but reduce Health Insurance costs. We've all seen the fallout, that insurance costs would go up while coverage would go down....

Republicans Dispute CBO Claim That Health Care Repeal Would Increase Deficit
Friday, January 07, 2011 By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press Rep. John Boehner of Ohio greets House members ahead of his swearing in as House Speaker during the first session of the 112th Congress on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) Washington (AP) - Repealing President Barack Obama's landmark Health Care overhaul would add billions to government red ink and leave millions without coverage, Congress' nonpartisan Budget referees said Thursday ahead of a political...

Morning Observations
The Democrats in the House of Representatives produced over 400 bills in the last Congress that the U.S. Senate did not have the time or inclination to act on. We didn't pay attention to most of those bills, although a few, like Cap & Trade, were big effing deals. When we see the Republican-run House pass bills to Repeal Health Care reform or ban czarism from the executive office, we shouldn't really get upset. It's theater. It is only important for setting precedents for future action should t...

Dems Claim New GOP Rules Will Cost $1T
From the DNC’s online platform, the Politico: Democrats: GOP rules will cost $1 Trillion By: Scott Wong January 6, 2011 Top Senate Democrats fired a shot across the Capitol on Thursday, warning that new rules passed by the Republican-controlled House a day earlier would actually “balloon” the Deficit by $1 trillion. Why not say a gazillion? If you are just going to make up scary numbers, why not go whole hog - so to speak. Republicans, who formally took control of the lower ch

Obama Threatens Veto of Obamacare Repeal
President Obama and Democrats should wake up and smell the coffee. The American public now knows what is in their Health Care Reform Bill and they don't like it. Only 38 percent support the mandate and 60% of voters favor Repeal. It's time to scrap the bill and start over. (The Hill) - President Obama officially drew a line in the sand Thursday evening, threatening to Veto House Republicans’ attempt to repeal Obama’s landmark healthcare law. In a statement of administration pol...

Repubicans: 'Obamacare' Impedes Job Growth
Republicans promised voters they would try to Repeal the new health law they have dubbed 'ObamaCare' and Friday the new House leaders made their first official move in that direction. Republicans came up with a new way to brand President Barack Obama's Health Care law. "We move on to the 'Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act,'" said Rep. David Dreier, R-Calif. Members of the GOP say that's exactly what the new law has done. "We believe that a significant impediment to job growth in t...

GOP allows Dem's 'doc fix' amendment to repeal bill
Republicans on the House Rules Committee decided late Thursday night to allow debate on one Democratic amendment to the bill repealing the Healthcare Reform law. The GOP, which has been promising a speedy process to Repeal the reform law, allowed an amendment from Rep. Jim Matheson (D-Utah), one of 13 surviving Democrats who voted against the healthcare overhaul last Congress. Meanwhile, Republicans rejected 30 other Democratic amendments. Republicans wanted to avoid amendments that would re...

Debt limit already a hot-button issue for GOP
In power scarcely a day, House Republicans bluntly told the White House on Thursday its request to raise the nation’s $14.3 Trillion Debt Limit will require federal Spending Cuts to win their approval, laying down an early marker in a new era of divided government. Speaker John Boehner made the challenge as the new GOP majority voted to cut funding for House members’ own offices and committee operations by $35 million. Rank and File Republicans described that vote as a mere down paym...

Boxer challenges GOP on environment issues
(01-07) 04:00 PST Washington - -- Exactly 24 hours after being sworn in for her fourth term, California Sen. Barbara Boxer on Thursday unloaded both barrels on House Republicans' plans to stall climate-change Regulations, slipping seamlessly into her role as a pit bull against the GOP. "If anyone in Congress tries to move to a dirty-air policy, I will take them straight to the American People and do everything in my power to stop them," Boxer, a Democrat, pledged at a news conference. Cast as ...

Republicans Are Given a Price Tag for Health Law Repeal, but Reject It
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and ROBERT PEAR NYT WASHINGTON — The nonpartisan Budget scorekeepers in Congress said on Thursday that the Republican plan to Repeal President Obama’s Health Care law would add $230 billion to federal Budget Deficits over the next decade, intensifying the first legislative fight of the new session and highlighting the challenge Republicans face in pursuing their agenda. The new House Speaker, John A. Boehner, flatly rejected the report, saying it was based largely o...

Newspaper Roundup for Friday, January 7, 2011
Friday, January 07, 2011 By Susan Jones New Hampshire Union-Leader: Candy will no longer be found in safe-sex kits distributed in some N.H. schools Kits also include Condoms, fruit-flavored lubricant USA Today: Pentagon plans to cut 47,000 ground Troops in 2015 Politico: Tax Reform move up the list of Senate priorities Both Senate leaders on board with examining the code Los Angeles Times: California Insurance Commissioner to Blue Shield: Delay Rate Hike Calls recent increases by the indust...

NBCs Brian Williams Asks Dopiest Question of 2011 So Far
In an "exclusive" interview with new House Speaker John Boehner for Thursday's NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams told Boehner the promised vote to Repeal ObamaCare has "been called a stunt," pressed him to justify repealing it given many would not call it "the best Health Care delivery system in the world because they, by the millions, weren't getting it" and demanded to know "where are you getting the notion...the American People want it repealed" given polling was "very evenly split on that?" Y...

The Opera Begins: House Starts Debate On Healthcare Repeal Today
: The House opens a largely symbolic debate Friday on whether to Repeal President Barack Obama's landmark Health Care overhaul, the culmination of the first week with Republicans back in charge. A procedural vote around midday will set the rules for formal debate and final action next Wednesday. House Republicans want to Repeal Obama's plan to expand coverage to more than 30 million Uninsured and start over again with a more modest, less costly approach. But Democratic leaders in the Senate say...

Dem leader: Lets modify health reform by seeking common ground with GOP
Stumble This! Facing a vigorous Republican effort to Repeal health reform, a member of the House Democratic leadership says his party is willing to "fine-tune" the law based on input from the GOP. Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar, a member of the conservative Blue Dog Caucus, told ABC's "Top Line" that Democrats can find "common ground" with Republicans on ways to adjust the sweeping measure that has been a prime target of Conservatives. "There are areas that we can find common ground," Cuellar said. "...

Obama to visit manufacturing plant
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- President Obama visits a Manufacturing plant in Landover, Md., Friday, touring the facility and making personnel announcements, the White House said. Obama also will remark on the latest national monthly employment report, the daily agenda indicated. It is widely expected that Obama will name Gene Sperling, a counselor to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, as the director of the National Economic Council. Sperling, who held the post during President Bill Clinton's a...

The French Go On The Offensive, And Push For A New European Treasury
Email Sent! You have successfully emailed the post. A new proposal has emerged for a combined European Treasury, first built on German and French cooperation, eventually expanding to the rest of the Eurozone (via CNBC). While the idea has been proposed by Constance Le Grip and Henri Plagnol, two French and European parliamentarians, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has promised to deliver it to European leadership. The report can be read in full here in French, but here's a breakdown of the key...