Upton Claims Veto-Proof Votes for Healthcare Repeal

House Republicans eye quick repeal of healthcare law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the House of Representatives plan to hold a vote in January to Repeal President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul and say they have nearly enough support to override a presidential Veto of the repeal, a top lawmaker said on Sunday. "Unpopularity numbers are as high as 60 percent across the country," Fred Upton, the incoming chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said of the healthcare law. "I don't think we're going to be that far off from hav...

Dems threaten Boehner with blocking repeal of health reform
The Senate's top Democrats wrote incoming House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Monday, vowing to block Legislation to Repeal Healthcare Reform. The five top Democrats in the Senate wrote Boehner in an effort to preemptively pressure the new GOP House against advancing Legislation to undo the healthcare reform law passed last year, benefits of which started to take effect on Jan. 1. The Democrats, led by Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.), warned in specifics that if the GOP House passed a b...

What 2011 Will Bring To Your Health?
Kaiser Health News has compiled nine ways the federal law overhauling Health Care could affect you. The Food and Drug Administration has a March deadline to finalize rules requiring chain restaurants to post calorie counts, though some  eateries have started already. If you've got a flexible spending account at work, you can't use the money to cover over-the-counter remedies anymore. USA Today knows that almost all of us have vowed to lose weight this year, just like last year and the year ...

Senate Dems to Boehner: We'll block your repeal push
Game on! In the first official response from Dems to the House GOP plan to Repeal health reform, Senate Democrats have penned a sharply worded letter to House Speaker John Boehner vowing that Repeal is a dead letter in the Senate, the Associated Press reports. Here's a copy of the letter itself, and it's well worth reading, because it provides the first clear glimpse of how Democrats will mount their political pushback against the GOP's Repeal campaign. The crux of the argument is that Repeal ...

Upton Claims Votes to Repeal Health Care Law
Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) told Fox News that House Republicans have enough votes to Repeal the Health Care law. Said Upton: "As part of our pledge we said that we would bring up a vote to Repeal Health Care early. That will happen before the president's State of the Union address. We have 242 Republicans. There will be a significant number of Democrats, I think, that will join us. You will remember when that vote passed in the House, last March; it only passed by seven votes." Republicans don't ex...

New year, new them
House Republicans have a First Handful of Days strategy: Soon after the 112th Congress convenes Wednesday, Republicans in the House plan to make good on a campaign promise that helped vault many new members to victory: voting to Repeal President Barack Obama’s Health Care overhaul.The vote, which Republican leaders pledged would occur before the president’s State of the Union address later this month, is intended both to appeal to the tea party-influenced factions of the House GOP ba...

U.S. House Republicans want health law repeal vote
WASHINGTON - Republicans in the U.S. House plan to hold a vote in January to Repeal President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul and say they have nearly enough support to override a presidential Veto of the repeal, a top lawmaker said Sunday. “Unpopularity numbers are as high as 60% across the country,” Fred Upton, the incoming chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said of the healthcare law. Democrats contend Republicans are wasting Congress’ time by st...

As popular Affordable Care Act provisions are enacted, GOP focuses on repeal
It's a new year, and Health Insurers will be reined in in one important way: the minimum medical loss ratio kicks in. That means from here on out, insurers will have to report what percentage of the premium dollars they receive are spent on clinical services, quality, and other costs. If the share of the premium spent on clinical services and quality is less than 85% in large group markets and 80% in individual and small group markets, the insurer will have to provide a rebate to customers. Ins...

Republican Lawmaker Wants to Go After Health Care Piece by Piece
Monday, January 03, 2011 By Staff, Associated Press Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) seeks the chairmanship of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee Washington (AP) -  top House Republican says GOP lawmakers will go after President Barack Obama's Health Care law piece by piece to see if they can make it crumble. That effort, says Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan, will follow a vote to Repeal the Health Care law outright. Such a vote could come early in the new year after the GOP takes contr...

GOP lawmaker: Go after health care piece by piece
WASHINGTON — A top House Republican says GOP lawmakers will go after President Barack Obama’s Health Care law piece by piece to see if they can make it crumble. That effort, says Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan, will follow a vote to Repeal the Health Care law outright. Such a vote could come early in the new year after the GOP takes control of the House. Upton is the incoming chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and he says that repealing the Health Care law is his top ...

House Republicans eye quick repeal of healthcare law
WASHINGTON | Sun Jan 2, 2011 2:50pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the House of Representatives plan to hold a vote in January to Repeal President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul and say they have nearly enough support to override a presidential Veto of the repeal, a top lawmaker said on Sunday. "Unpopularity numbers are as high as 60 percent across the country," Fred Upton, the incoming chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said of the healthcare law. "I don't th...

House Republicans eye quick repeal of healthcare law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the House of Representatives plan to hold a vote in January to Repeal President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul and say they have nearly enough support to override a presidential Veto of the repeal, a top lawmaker said on Sunday. "Unpopularity numbers are as high as 60 percent across the country," Fred Upton, the incoming chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said of the healthcare law. "I don't think we're going to be that far off from hav...

The Dems' Wasted Opportunity on Health Reform
Republicans have placed their assault on Health Care reform at the top of their agenda for the new Congress, planning to put a Repeal of the federal law up for a vote as soon as possible. Full-out Repeal is unlikely to go anywhere: even if the bill passed the House, it would have trouble clearing the Senate, and President Obama could always Veto it in the end. But the GOP hopes the vote will give Republicans the momentum to undermine support for the law on the state level, gut smaller provisions...

Why Obamacare Must Be Repealed Or Defunded.
From the producer of this video: Update: Yes the Healthcare Bill HR3962 passed. Now it's up to us to do all we can to Repeal it!! This video is based on HR3200 but it is very closely related to HR3962 with the exception that HR3962 is deemed to be worse yet. If we don't get this bill thrown in the trash where it belongs we can expect to see much if not all of what this video shows us. THE PDF.OF THE BILL HR3200 NOTED AT THE END OF THE VIDEO IS NO LONGER VALID. HERE IS THE UPDATED LINK TO THE P...

GOP to quickly attack health care law in House
(01-03) 04:00 PST Washington - -- House Republicans plan to bring up a vote to Repeal the Health Care overhaul early in the new Congress that opens Wednesday, at least before President Obama delivers his State of the Union address later this month, a key Republican lawmaker said Sunday. Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., incoming chairman of one of the House committees that oversee health policy, said undoing the Democrats' health reform law would be a top priority for the new GOP-controlled House. Up...

ObamaCare Repeal Vote, Bill to De-Fund Abortion, Coming Soon
The new Republican chairman of the panel responsible for starting action on repealing the Abortion-funding ObamaCare law says a vote will take place soon. Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan, incoming chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said yesterday that a vote on the Repeal Legislation and a companion bill to ensure there is no abortion funding under ObamaCare, will take place before President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address later this month. “As part of ou...

Republicans Plan ObamaCare Repeal Votes Before State Of The Union
Incoming House Speaker John Boehner pledges that the GOP "Pledge to America" will not become a worthless piece of paper, much as the "Contract with America" became. Things will change. He has already put out the new rules, and plans to take them seriously. We'll see. And one thing we'll see soon will be votes to Repeal ObamaCareSoon after the 112th Congress convenes Wednesday, Republicans in the House plan to make good on a campaign promise that helped vault many new members to victory: voting t...

Rep. John Boehner set to repeal Obama victories
At the top of Rep. John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) list are government regulations designed to keep the public safe and healthy.The new speaker of the House is planning moves to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency and Obama's new Health Care reform laws. “Democrats, who in many cases looked on the law as a rabid beast best avoided in the fall Elections, are reversing course, gearing up for a coordinated all-out effort to preserve and defend it. Under the law, they say, consumers ar...

Right-Wing Media Kick Off 2011 By Dusting Off "Death Panel" Lie
Right-Wing Media Seize on CMS Rule Change to Revive False "Death Panel" Myth Knight: "The Dreaded 'Death Panels' Are Back." Following news that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved payment for voluntary end-of-life counseling, Robert Knight wrote in a Washington Times op-ed: Finally, the dreaded "death panels" are back. Recall that on Christmas Eve 2009, Nevada Democratic Sen. Harry Reid's U.S. Senate rammed through the national Health Care system takeover. They ignor...

Senate Democrats vow to block health care repeal
WASHINGTON — Top Senate Democrats are warning House Speaker-elect John Boehner they’ll block any Republican effort to Repeal President Barack Obama’s Health Care overhaul. Citing better Medicare prescription coverage and other changes in the new law, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his top lieutenants say the overhaul "is too important to be treated as Collateral Damage in a partisan mission to Repeal health care." The letter says Repeal would have "unintended consequenc...

Democrats To Fight ObamaCare Repeal
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Senate Democrats are warning House Speaker-elect John Boehner they’ll block any Republican effort to Repeal President Barack Obama’s Health Care overhaul. Citing better Medicare prescription coverage and other changes in the new law, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his top lieutenants say the overhaul “is too important to be treated as Collateral Damage in a partisan mission to Repeal health care.” The letter says Repeal would have “...

Senate Dems to Boehner: You shall not pass (ObamaCare repeal)!
Among the top priorities for the new Republican majority in the House will be the Repeal of ObamaCare.  Speaker-to-be John Boehner has already scheduled a vote on a Repeal bill, which is expected to pass handily, at the very least on party lines.  The leadership of the Senate Democratic Caucus has told Boehner not to bother: Top Senate Democrats are warning House Speaker-elect John Boehner they’ll block any Republican effort to Repeal President Barack Obama’s Health Care overhaul...

GOP Agenda May Mean More in 2012 Than Now
WASHINGTON — Even if the next two years end in congressional gridlock, Republicans hope to build a record that demonstrates to voters in 2012 that they can get it right. The GOP is promising to use the new Congress that convenes Wednesday to cut spending, roll back President Barack Obama's health care overhaul and prevent unelected Bureaucrats from expanding the government's role in society through regulations that tell people what they must or can't do. Passing their top priorities may ...

Kaine says he'll remain DNC chair
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine plans to stay in his current post, the former Virginia Governor said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” There had been speculation that White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs would take over for Kaine — one of President Barack Obama’s earliest supporters — who could move into a post within the administration. The White House, though, pushed back on that talk. “My agreement with the president is I was ...

MSNBCs Chuck Todd: Incoming GOP House Leadership Looking Backwards
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, NBC News Chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd said he’s “curious” whether the incoming Republican leadership wants “the first impression they give, this month, (to) be about fights in the past?” Todd-pointing out that the weekend delivered a long list of potential investigations (everything from Afghanistan to Wikileaks)-said the GOP focus on investigations might be focused in the wrong direction, at least in terms of...