U.S. Chamber backs health repeal

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Calls for Repeal of Obamacare
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 By Penny Starr Tom Donohue, CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, gave his State of American Business address Tuesday in Washington, D.C. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr) (CNSNews.com) - Tom Donohue, CEO and president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said on Tuesday that the Health Care bill signed into law last year by President Barack Obama should be repealed. “Last year, while strongly advocating Health Care reform, the Chamber was a leader in the fight against th...

U.S. Chamber President: Repeal Of Health Reform Is Just To Get Everybodys Attention
U.S. Chamber President: Repeal Of Health Reform Is Just To ‘Get Everybody’s Attention’ This morning, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue, who just yesterday announced the organization’s support for the GOP’s Health Care repeal bill, hinted that his group is more interested in tweaking the measure than eliminating it outright. Asked why he was endorsing a measure that had no chance of becoming law, Donohue reminded MSNBC host Chuck Todd that the Chamber...

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

Chamber of Commerce backs repeal of Obama health care law
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is backing Republican plans to try and Repeal President Obama's Health Care bill. "We see the upcoming House vote as an opportunity for everyone to take a fresh look at Health Care reform," chamber president Thomas J. Donohue said in his annual State of American Business address. "And to replace unworkable approaches with more effective measures that will lower costs, expand access, and improve quality." The Republican-run U.S. House postponed a Wednesday vote on re...

What the health reform repeal effort says about the 112th Congress
Members of the House of Representatives will vote next week on a bill to Repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010, the health reform law that aims to cover the Uninsured through state Health Insurance exchanges, an individual coverage mandate, and an expansion of the Medicaid program, among other provisions. While the measure will probably pass the House, it is unlikely to be approved by the Democrat-controlled Senate, and even if it were to pass both chambers, the President has threatened t...

Health care repeal postponed
The much-touted Republican midterm campaign promise of voting to Repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s signature Health Care law, has been postponed along with all other legislative business for the 112th Congress. The postponement, which will last through the week, comes in wake of Saturday’s Assassination attempt of Congresswomen Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Arizona, which killed six and injured 14 including, including Giffords. The vote for repe...

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...

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...

Chamber Will Support Repeal Effort After Saying It Would Stay Out
When the Affordable Care Act passed last March, the powerful Chamber of Commerce initially ruled out any future efforts in support of Repeal. "If people want to try and repeal, let them," Thomas Donahue, the Chamber's president, told the Wall Street Journal. "We're not going to spend any capital on that." During the Midterm Elections, however, the Chamber ran more than 25,000 ads, almost all of them against Democrats and most of those demonizing the Candidates' support for Health Care reform. No...

Private Solutions for Health Care, Shunned by Big Government
Obamacare extends the hand of government into the largest Private Sector left in America, Health Care. If allowed to ferment, this extension of government will filter into every aspect of your life. If it is repealed by the new, 112th Congress, other solutions need to be considered to fix the problems that exist in the current system. Let’s keep on our newly elected officials, including Cory Gardner from the 4th Congressional District, to repeat ObamaCare, and offer real solutions. The rep...

Gov. Scott's makes REC appointees. Update on RPOF chair race
Gov. Rick Scott has made his long-awaited appointees to the Republican Executive Committee, and it’s quite a hodge-podge. Heavy on healthcare types, North Florida folks and FORs (Friends of Rick), the appointees have the unenviable task of voting in the increasingly nasty Republican Party of Florida chairman’s race. They are in alphabetical order: 1) John Colon, longtime Sarasota party Activist and FOR, as well as Jennifer Carrol supporter. 2) Tom Grady, former Naples state Rep. 3) Mike Hi...

The Coming Constitutional Debate
The Constitution has returned to Congress. It began with a ceremonial reading of the document on the House floor for the first time in US history. While the event had some problems, the act of reading the document that provides the authority for Congress in the first place sets the tone and defines the core purpose of the new Congress: to restore constitutional limits on the Federal Government. The real test comes with the debates over the new House rule requiring that each piece of legislatio...

Chamber Joins Push for Health Care Repeal
The US Chamber of Commerce has decided to come out in public support of repealing the recently passed Health Care law. From Chamber CEO Thomas Donohue’s State of American Business address: By mid-December, HHS had already granted 222 waivers to the law—a revealing acknowledgement that the law is unworkable. And, with key provisions under challenge in the courts by states and others, it’s time to go back to the drawing board. Last year, while strongly advocating Health Care reform, th...

Chamber of Commerce backs repeal vote on healthcare reform
"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 signature domestic accomplishment this week, but it was delayed after the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Donahue, in delivering his annual "State of American Business" address, also pressed for more open markets in Chin...

Sheri and Allan Rivlin: Sara Palin and Why Speaker Boehner Should Take "Killing" Out of His First Bill's Title
It's one thing to suggest that some liberal commentators went too far in blaming Conservatives following this Saturday's shooting in Arizona (as we at CenteredPolitics.com and many others have already done). It is another thing entirely to claim victimhood in the discussion following the tragedy. Sarah Palin's January 12 facebook note reads like a sincere attempt to reach common ground following the tragedy, but intentionally or not, it includes language that will no doubt fan the flames of di...

SC House Republican Caucus Unveils 2011 Agenda
The Repeal amendment noted at the end of the first video caught my ear.  This is the first I’ve heard of states colluding to pass a Constitutional Amendment to Repeal an unfunded mandate from the feds.  I imagine this is centering around ObamaCare. I’m going to make a particular point to follow up on this because I’d definitely like to hear more about this. I also like what they discussed in the second video regarding education funding.  Part of their funding cha...

US Chamber backs "Repeal the Job Killing Health Care Law Act"
Good thing that the U.S. Chamber ally Bill Daley will be in the White House to provide a liaison to the business community, to bring them along on President Obama's agenda for the nation and The Economy. Or not. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is backing Republican plans to try and Repeal President Obama's Health Care bill. "We see the upcoming House vote as an opportunity for everyone to take a fresh look at Health Care reform," chamber president Thomas J. Donohue said in his annual State of Amer...

Dissident Democrats denied state Senate committee assignments
ALBANY (AP) — The four Democrats who split from their conference in New York’s Senate have been denied assignments to committees that introduce and shape Legislation. The three Veterans and a freshman created what they call the Independent Democratic Conference a week ago. They say they’re seeking government reforms and a fiscal agenda they share with Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo. But Senate Democratic leader John Sampson has taken the Dissidents out of the process that allow...

Public Editor Has Problem With Paper's Front-Page Editorializing for Obama-Care
In his Sunday column “Hanging On as the Boundaries Shift,” public Editor Arthur Brisbane agreed with a reader’s complaining that economics writer David Leonhardt’s liberal column of a judge’s ruling against Obama-care appeared on the front page. Brisbane admits that one of the “challenges” for Newspapers like the Times is clearly delineating fact from opinion. The most glaring recent example that drew my eye was the Dec. 15 front-page column by David L...

Republicans Denounce Republican Health Care Plan
Tim Noah on Republican outrage over high risk Health Insurance pools: Of all the arguments Republicans have been waging against ObamaCare as the House of Representatives prepares to vote for its Repeal, none is harder to take than their criticism of the federally subsidized high-risk pools the law created to provide immediate relief to the Uninsured. In May, the House Republican Conference complained that these high-risk pools would be unfair to people currently enrolled in existing state-run r...

Getting the old gang back together, cont'd
GETTING THE OLD GANG BACK TOGETHER, CONT'D.... Disgraced former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) was sentenced this week to three years behind bars for his conviction on money-laundering charges. With that in mind, it's a shame that the corrupt Republican's former staff is still running the House. I reported last week that three Top Officials in DeLay's former House operation now have key roles in the new Republican majority. Danielle Maurer will be Speaker John Boehner's director of ...

MICHAEL GOODWIN: Why Ryan's Star Is Shining
New House Speaker John Boehner gets tons of attention for turning on the waterworks, but the real House Republican to watch is Paul Ryan from Wisconsin. He is an economic-policy wonk who brings knowledge and conviction to his job as chairman of the all-important Budget committee. In a televised interview, Ryan made it clear he is not one of those Republicans who practices "crony Capitalism." Reforming business taxes, he insisted, means "broadening the base and lowering the rates," a code for end...

Why a Vote to Repeal Healthcare?
Although Congress has suspended its business due to the heinous killings of a mad man in Arizona, at some point it will reconvene and it will be business as usual.  On the docket will be the Repeal of the Health Care Law, which was scheduled for Wednesday, January 12.  Since the 112th Congress is now Republican-controlled, it is clear that there would be enough votes to pass a repeal.  But in the Senate, Harry Reid and the Democrats are still in control, where he promised tha...

Lawmakers Consider New Curbs on Incendiary Speech
© n/a Shocked and saddened lawmakers grappled on Monday with the weekend shooting of one of their own, with some suggesting that new laws and regulations are needed to curb incendiary Speech. The aftermath of Saturday's attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) brought a rare moment of unity on Capitol Hill, but it also escalated a contentious debate over violent imagery in the nation's political discourse. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) was having a beer and eating pizza at a New Jersey...

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...