House plans test vote Friday on health care repeal

Health Care Repeal Test Vote Planned By House Republicans
WASHINGTON — 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...

House plans test vote Friday on health care repeal
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House opens a largely symbolic debate Friday on whether to Repeal President 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 Mr. 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...

House To Hold Test Vote On Health Care Repeal Today
The Republican-led House of Representatives today will hold a key test vote on its top priority: repealing the new Health Care law. The up-or-down vote will set the terms of the debate on the Repeal bill itself, which is scheduled to hit the floor (and pass) on Wednesday. During that debate, Democrats will be unable to introduce their own amendments and have been closed out of the process more generally. An earlier plan to force committee-level votes on popular elements of the bill was scuttl...

House plans test vote Friday on health care repeal
WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 Dem...

House GOP Scrambles To Clean Up Sessions' Mess
House Republican leaders will be busy today constructing the parliamentary Rube Goldberg device they'll need to briefly turn back the House clock after Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) and Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA) skipped Wednesday's official swearing-in ceremony, rendering everything they did between the moment the Republicans officially took over and yesterday afternoon Unconstitutional. Roll Call reports that House Rules Committee chair David Dreier (R-CA) is planning to nullify those votes v...

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...

Deficit Busting Health Repeal
If the GOP thinks health Repeal costs nothing why exempt it from Deficit rules? Newly installed House Speaker John Boehner seemed contradictory on this point during his Press Conference on Thursday. First, Boehner disputes a CBO preliminary estimate that repealing President Obama's health overhaul would actually increase the federal Deficit by $230 billion over the next decade. "I do not believe that repealing the job-killing Health Care law will increase the deficit" he said. But then the Spe...

Dem: Health care repeal will lead to 'more dying'
(CNN) - Congressional Democrats are going on the offensive against GOP efforts to Repeal the Democratic-back Health Care bill that was passed last year. In a moment of particularly heated Rhetoric on the House floor, California Rep. John Garamendi suggested the Republican effort will directly lead to "more Americans dying." "The Repeal of it (health care) is actually a killer of human beings," he said Friday. "Some 40,00 Americans die every year for lack of Health Insurance. That's the reality. ...

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 ...

House Plans Test Vote Friday on Health Care Repeal
Friday, January 07, 2011 By Staff, Associated Press House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, right, accompanied by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va., at a news conference on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Washington (AP) - 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...

Rep. Paul Ryan Rails Against CBO On Health Care, But Hypes Report On His Budget Plan
Like many of his Republican colleagues, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) doesn't have much faith in the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office's determination that repealing Health Care reform will increase the Deficit by $230 billion. Last night on right-wing talker Mark Levin's Radio Show, Ryan complained that "the Health Care bill is full of gimmicks and spending tricks" that steer the number crunchers to an unrealistic conclusion. "What they have is a piece of paper that the...

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...

Questions about Dallas Rep. Pete Sessions' status delay Republicans' health care repeal efforts 3:53 PM CT
Questions about Dallas Rep. Pete Sessions' status delay Republicans' Health Care Repeal efforts 3:53 PM CT 03:53 PM CST on Thursday, January 6, 2011 By TODD J. GILLMAN and MELANIE MASON / The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON — In the first two days of the new Congress, Dallas Rep. Pete Sessions cast a series of votes and participated in House Committee hearings. But there was one problem: he was not officially sworn in as a member of Congress. Sessions was not present for Wednesday’...

GOP House to Introduce Bill to Eliminate President Barack Obamas Czars
All the President’s Czar’s … maybe not any longer. House Republicans of the new 112th Congress  introduced a bill yesterday that would eliminate Barack Obama’s 39 czars. What a novel concept that “a head of any Task Force, council, policy office within the Executive Office of the President” would have to require Senate confirmation. That goes for any party in office. As stated at Weasel Zippers , Elections have consequences. From The Hill : A group of House R

Constitution Was Violated By Those Who Read It Yesterday, Of Course
Two House Republicans weren’t around to strategically hand tissues to John Boehner on Wednesday as the House session opened. That wasn’t a problem, because our new speaker was able to compose himself, remembering he had to deliver a full short Speech before he could hit the Red Wine/bronzer celebration cocktails. Unfortunately, this meant these bros, Pete Sessions and Mike Fitzpatrick, weren’t actually sworn in yesterday and were pretending to be members of Congress, in violati...

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...

Dems pounce on CBO repeal estimate
Democrats head into the first House Health Care reform Repeal vote today with fresh ammo: a Congressional Budget Office estimate that Repeal would increase the Deficit by $230 billion by 2021. Hours after the number dropped Thursday, Democrats had spun it into a strong, new talking point: Repealing Health Care will wreak havoc on The Economy. Republicans, meanwhile, cried foul, taking shots at the CBO’s Accounting methods. Continue Reading Text Size - + reset Politico 44 The House Rules...

Obama Plays Right Into Republicans Hands By Issuing Veto Threat On Obamacare Repeal
Politically playing directly into Republican's hands, Barack Obama wades into the ObamaCare Repeal fight being publicly fought in Washington between House Republicans and Senate Democrats by issuing a Veto threat should a Repeal bill make it to his desk. Is he worried that the 23 Senate Democrat that are up for Reelection might actually vote to Repeal Obamacare? By The Numbers Polling numbers, averaged by RCP from a variety of polling organizations, show that on average 53.4 percent of of Amer...

Gallup: Plurality, Some Democrats, Support ObamaCare Repeal
As House Republicans take the first step today towards voting on a bill that would Repeal the Abortion-funding ObamaCare bill pro-life groups oppose, a new Gallup Poll finds a plurality of Americans support that effort. Approximately 46 percent of U.S. voters support the Repeal effort, some 40 percent oppose it, and 14 percent say they do not have an opinion yet on repealing the government takeover of the Health Care industry. “Americans’ broadly divided opinions on repealing the hea...

Two Republicans Voted Before They Took Oath
Friday, January 07, 2011 By Larry Margasak, Associated Press Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, attends a meeting of the House Rules Committee on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) Washington (AP) - It only took two days for majority Republicans in the House to suffer their first embarrassment. Two of their members, including the House Republican campaign chairman, voted a half-dozen times in Wednesday's opening session before they were sworn in. Reps. Pete Sessio...

Boehner To CBO: La La La, I Can't Hear You
New House Speaker John Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Majority Whip Kevin Mccarthy enjoy a casual moment on the House floor. I know some of the Democrats are a little wacky, but this? These Republicans are just plain nuts. I'd forgotten what it was like to have the inmates in charge of the asylum. Their ability to communicate such deep denial seems to have paid off for them politically, at least for a while: Rescinding the federal law to overhaul the Health Care system, the first...

Congressmen Who Skipped Swearing-in Stall GOP Health Reform Repeal
ABC News’ Matthew Jaffe reports: Oops. Somehow two Republicans yesterday neglected to get sworn in as new members of Congress. A photo on www.phillyburbs.com shows, Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas with Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania were on Capitol Hill but during the swearing-in ceremony they were not in the House chamber but rather in front of a television in the Visitors Gallery. Today Sessions and Fitzpatrick were on the House floor, voting and reading the Constitution - just like ...

Republicans file bill to block EPA from greenhouse gas regulation
It didn’t take long for House Republicans to start working on one of their biggest goals in 2011.  Yesterday, the first full day of business for the Republican House, almost 50 Republicans and one Democrat added their names to a bill filed by Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) that would block the EPA from issuing any new Regulations on greenhouse-gas emissions.  Rep. Dan Boren of Oklahoma may not be the last Democrat in Congress to align himself with this effort, either: Dozens of Republicans us...

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...

Rep. Steve King uses 'Babies Born in Dumpsters' to argue that Affordable Care Act Unconstitutional
Rep. Steve King uses 'Babies Born in Dumpsters' to argue that Affordable Care Act Unconstitutional Rep. Steve King is the epitome of the disgusting Bircher-Randian megalomaniacs that have overtaken the Republican party. Day after day he says things that are so unseemly that I wonder if we could get a Congressional censoreship on his remarks so they can be stricken from our ears because they are hazzarise to our health. In his latest transgression, he uses babies born in trash cans to ...