U.S. Chamber of Commerce 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of Commerce, said on Tuesday that the Health Care bill signed into law last year by President Barack Obama should be repealed.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 backs health repeal
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 a Speech on the state of American business. “We see the upcoming House vote...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

South Carolina GOP Fears Doctors May Be Required To Perform Abortions Under Obamacare
Republicans and their allies have consistently smeared the recent Health Care reform law by suggesting that it will lead to Taxpayer subsidized Abortions. According to PolitiFact, “the Health Care reform law “does not provide full Federal Funding of abortions — and that’s clear,” but that hasn’t stopped GOP leaders like Speaker John Boehner and Michele Bachmann from asserting that Taxpayer funds are already being used to finance Abortions. CitizenLink (formerl...

Chamber of Commerce Supports 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform' for Illegal Aliens While Touting Need for Jobs in U.S.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 By Penny Starr Tom Donohue, CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr) (CNSNews.com) U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Tom Donohue, noting that 27 million Americans are unemployed, underemployed, or have given up on finding a job, said his organization supports “comprehensive Immigration Reform” for the estimated 12 to 14 million Illegal Aliens who are working in the United States. “Unemployment had exceeded 9 percent for 20 con

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...

On Our Radar: A Climate-Change Fingerprint in Australia?
European Pressphoto Agency An entire street underwater in Brisbane, Australia. Climate Change may be partly responsible for the intensity of the floods inundating the eastern Australian city of Brisbane, scientists say. [Reuters] Some recommendations from the presidential Oil Spill commission, like raising the cost of regulating risky oil leases, could take effect though an Executive Order, an option that President Obama has shown interest in, a panel member says. [Politico] The United Nations c...

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...

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...

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...

Tom Donohue: 'Recovery Is Fragile and Uneven'
The agenda of the nation’s biggest business lobby comes down to one point: turning “an Economic Recovery into a jobs recovery,” U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas Donohue said. Not a Subscriber? To continue reading, sign up for a free trial....

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...

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...

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...

Liberty Links: Morning Reads for Wednesday, January 12th
Below is a collection of several links that we didn’t get around to writing about, but still wanted to post for readers to examine. The stories typically range from news about prominent figures in The Liberty movement, national politics, the Nanny State, Foreign Policy and free markets. Giffords moves arms, survival odds at ‘101 pct’ (Associated Press) Westboro Baptist Church Protesters to Picket Arizona Shooting Victims’ Funerals (CBS News) Ron Paul: Pressure on GOP freshmen...

Budget chairmen back Elmendorf
Despite a new barrage of Republican complaints about the Congressional Budget Office’s role in Health Care reform, Director Doug Elmendorf’s prospects for keeping his job appear to have brightened. Chairman of the House Budget Committee, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), has joined Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) in defending the Democratic CBO chief, who was appointed in the last Congress. And aides to other House Republican leaders say there seems to be no hurdle to ...

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...