House moves forward on ObamaCare repeal

GOP walks unarmed into health-care repeal battle
By Nicholas Wilbur Ed. note: Most of our posts the past few days have, understandably, been on the Arizona shooting. We'll have more on that terrible story, but now let's turn back to Congress and the House Republicans' effort to Repeal the Affordable Care Act. This is the first of two excellent posts by Nicholas on that very topic. The second will appear tomorrow. -- MJWS ********** It would take more than a Golden Parachute from Goldman Sachs, more than a harem of Argentinian mistresses, mor...

Rep. Goodlatte Would Support Defunding Obamacare if Repeal Effort Unsuccessful
Monday, January 10, 2011 By Dan Joseph Rep. Bob Goodlatter (R-Va.) Washington (CNSNews.com) -  A Virginia Republican congressman told CNSNews.com that he would not only vote for full Repeal of President Obama’s Health Care Legislation passed last March, but that he would also support efforts to defund the Legislation if Repeal efforts fail. On Capitol Hill last week, CNSNews.com asked Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.): “Rep. Steve King of Iowa is advocating including language in every appropr

It's Hard to Put a Price on Obamacare
The vote on repealing the Health Care bill looks likely to be delayed for a while, which gives us more time to quarrel over what such a Repeal would mean. Not what it will mean, of course--Republicans don't have the votes to get it through the Senate, so this is largely a symbolic move. But there's still plenty of room to argue about what would happen if they managed to retake the Senate and get it done. Democrats are pointing to the CBO score on repeal, which estimates that repealing the law wo...

The Chamber Shifts Right to Back Health Care Repeal
Tue Jan. 11, 2011 10:16 AM PST Just months after refusing to help Republicans overturn the Democrats' Health Care reform law, the US Chamber of Commerce has changed course and decided to push for Repeal, Chamber CEO and President Tom Donohue indicated Tuesday Morning. Donohue pointed to claims that the bill will raise premiums and kick people off their Insurance plans as justification for the Big Business lobby's shift: Workers who have been banking on employer-based coverage when they retire a...

Fresh from baby Congress training, Tipton vows to keep it civil
Scott Tipton is a co-sponsor of House Legislation to Repeal the Health Care law. But the freshman Congressman from Cortez is the first to say the entire law isn’t bad. He says he has a “heart for the Uninsured” and for those denied Health Care because of Pre-existing Conditions. “But is there a better way of doing it than establishing a bigger Bureaucracy?” he said Tuesday from his office during a relatively quiet day on the Hill since the House has canceled most ...

America under ObamaCare, Day 294: repeal will save trillions
Even if some of the most conservative estimates of participation in ObamaCare prove to be correct in the next 15 years, the Legislation will still mean expenditures of about $102.8 billion every year once fully implemented, or about $1 Trillion over ten years. Why? Because, as supporters claim, the program will offer health coverage to about 32 million new people. 15.9 million new enrollees in Medicaid by 2019, as estimated by Kaiser Family Foundation, at an average federal cost of $4,950 per in...

U.S. Chamber raises concerns with the healthcare reform law
The powerful U.S. Chamber of Commerce called for a Repeal of Democrats' Healthcare Reform law and then outlined specific issues it has with the Legislation during the annual State of American Business address on Tuesday. The Speech comes as the White House has been trying to repair relations with the business community in the wake of Democrats' midterm losses. Chamber President and CEO Thomas Donohue predicted Tuesday that "the president will see value in making the constructive changes that a...

U.S. Chamber of Commerce backs health repeal
Source: Politico U.S. Chamber of Commerce backs health Repeal By CHRIS FRATES | 1/11/11 1:20 PM EST U.S Chamber of Commerce president Tom Donohue said Tuesday that the powerful business lobby supports the House Republican Legislation to repeal President Obama’s Health Care reform law. “Last year, while strongly advocating Health Care reform, the Chamber was a leader in the fight against this particular bill — and thus we support Legislation in the House to repeal it,” Donohue said during

States Cry to Washington: Remove Obamacares Medicaid Handcuffs
The big news out of a majority of state capitols is that ObamaCare’s Medicaid mandates will exacerbate state Budget problems and drive many states to the brink of insolvency. Thirty-three Republican Governors and governors-elect have signed a letter to the White House and Congress making an emphatic appeal that ObamaCare’s Medicaid provisions be repealed. Medicaid pays Health Care and long-term care expenses for certain categories of individuals. Medicaid has many problems, but the central...

Donohue Goes All In, But Chamber Is Split On Health Repeal
Donohue Goes All In, But Chamber Is Split On Health Repeal Sam Stein is reporting that Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue is now calling for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, despite previous statements that the organization wouldn’t dedicate any resources to the effort. From today’s Speech: DONOHUE: For example, the new Health Care law creates 159 new agencies, commissions, panels, and other bodies. It grants extraordinary powers to the Department of Health and Human...

The Free Market and Health Care.
In my ongoing campaign to get everyone involved in public debate to be specific about what they're talking about, I'll point to this argument, from The Economist: [the Affordable Care Act] is exactly the result of 30 years of liberals letting go of the idea of a simple, centralised government programme of national Health Insurance, and instead devising increasingly market-based, decentralised, Friedmanite or Hayekian systems to achieve universal access to Health Care through private health-insur...

U.S. Chamber of Commerce President: Regulatory 'tsunami' threatens economy, supports Obamacare repeal
U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue delivered his annual “State of American Business” address this morning. Donohue was also emphatic about the problem of overregulation of the American Economy: We must rein in excessive regulations and reform the regulatory process. At the federal level alone, regulations already fill 150,000 pages of fine-print text and cost Americans $1.7 Trillion a year. Many of these rules are necessary and business strongly supports them. Yet in rece...

New Michigan Legislature convenes on Wednesday
Michigan's new State Legislature is getting ready to convene for the first time. Lawmakers are scheduled to gather at the State Capitol on Wednesday for swearing-in ceremonies. Republicans retain their majority in the Senate and are replacing Democrats for control of the House as the 2011-12 session begins. Lawmakers likely will focus much of their energy on the state's projected $1.8 billion Budget shortfall for the Fiscal Year that starts in October. Republicans want to try and erase the defic...

And now, on to a subject that unites us (not) | Michael Tomasky
As a result of changes in direct spending and revenues, CBO expects that enacting H.R. 2 would probably increase federal Budget Deficits over the 2012-2019 period by a total of roughly $145 billion (on the basis of the original estimate), plus or minus the effects of technical and economic changes that CBO and JCT will include in the forthcoming estimate. Adding two more years (through 2021) brings the projected increase in Deficits to something in the vicinity of $230 billion, plus or min...

Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo releases statement on Giffords shooting
In part of a response to a question from M V Consulting, and due to the event itself, Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo has released a statement. We are providing that statement, verbatim as always, for our readers. Later today we will be discussing the questions asked of Assemblywoman Lupardo, Rep. Hinchey, Rep. Hanna, Senators Gillibrand and Schumer, as well as Mayor Matt Ryan of Binghamton. I send my deepest condolences to the family and friends of the Victims of the tragic shooting in Arizona this...

Chamber of Commerce backs repeal vote on healthcare reform
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Corporate America's biggest lobbying group on Tuesday praised a more business-friendly tone from the White House, but backed Republican efforts to dismantle the Obama Administration's healthcare overhaul. "We see the upcoming House vote as an opportunity for everyone to take a fresh look at Healthcare Reform," U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donahue said. The Republican-led House of Representatives was set to conduct a largely symbolic vote to Repeal Obama's signatu...

Chamber of Commerce backs repeal vote on healthcare reform
Tue Jan 11, 2011 10:07am EST (Corrects spelling of Donohue's name) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Corporate America's biggest lobbying group on Tuesday praised a more business-friendly tone from the White House, but backed Republican efforts to dismantle the Obama Administration's healthcare overhaul. "We see the upcoming House vote as an opportunity for everyone to take a fresh look at Healthcare Reform," U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue said. The Republican-led House of Representative...

U.S. Chamber backs healthcare repeal vote
WASHINGTON - Corporate America’s biggest lobbying group Tuesday praised a more business-friendly tone from the White House, but backed Republican efforts to dismantle the Obama Administration’s healthcare overhaul. “We see the upcoming House vote as an opportunity for everyone to take a fresh look at Healthcare Reform,” U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue said. The Republican-led House of Representatives was set to conduct a largely symbolic vote to Repeal Ob...

Chamber head cautiously optimistic about economy (AP)
WASHINGTON – The president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says the condition of American business is improving and that the White House is adopting a more favorable tone toward the private sector. But Thomas Donohue, in a Speech at chamber headquarters Tuesday, said the chamber supports the Repeal of President Barack Obama's signature Health Care law and warned of a regulatory "Tsunami" that could damage the business community's ability to create jobs. Donohue also called for greater sp...

Chamber Head Cautiously Optimistic about Economy
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 By Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press Washington (AP) - The president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says the condition of American business is improving and that the White House is adopting a more favorable tone toward the Private Sector. But Thomas Donohue, in a Speech at chamber headquarters Tuesday, said the chamber supports the Repeal of President Barack Obama's signature Health Care law and warned of a regulatory "Tsunami" that could damage the business communit...

Why Did The GOP Think It Had To Delay The Health Reform Repeal Vote?
As Republicans prepared to take over the House, they announced one of their first bills would be the Repeal of health reform because "that's what the American People want." If that's true, and repealing health reform is simply a sound policy decision called upon by the public, then why would Republicans have to indefinitely delay a vote that was scheduled for Wednesday in response to Saturday's attempted Assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords? Yes, a memorial service is scheduled for Wednes...

Head of US Chamber of Commerce: 'cautiously optimistic' about recovery
US Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas Donohue listens to a question during his annual 'State of American Business' address, Tuesday, Jan. 11, at the Chamber of Commerce in Washington. The weather in Washington is frigid, but a thaw in relations between the Obama White House and the business community kept going Tuesday. EPA presents plan on Greenhouse Gases. Can next Congress stop it? Thomas Donohue, president of the US Chamber of Commerce, spoke approvingly during a Speech and press...

New Website: Repeal Obamacare, No More Obamacare
American Solutions has started a new website to push the anti-Obamacare issue. Obviously the House will likely do a good job pushing Repeal measures but the problem will be the Senate. This site will focus on those recalcitrant Senators that might try to hamper the movement to repeal....

Retail trade group hires new chief lobbyist
Economic agenda: Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011 At some point in the last couple of years--we would place it sometime after Lehman Brothers went down but before the automakers were bailed out--Washington became the financial capital of the world. "Now that we're all used to pre-nups, it's time to start thinking about Divorce Insurance: Ever had that sinking feeling that the person your friend is marrying is perfectly awful? Of course not, because you love everyone. But should it happen, you now can giv...

Video: Fmr. Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-NE) Says AZ Shooter Did It Because GOP Is Trying To Repeal ObamaCare!
Good grief. And good riddance to this moron. The moonbattery starts at the 2:24 mark where Kerry specifically pins the shooting on the GOeffort to Repeal ObamaCare: 'Jumping the shark" doesn't quite cut it in the face of such idiocy. ...