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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Kyle Ricky on July 11, 2012, 04:02:18 PM
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House lawmakers voted Wednesday to repeal the federal health care overhaul -- the latest in a long line of anti-ObamaCare votes, but the first since the Supreme Court upheld the law and defined one of its key provisions as a "tax."
The House has voted more than 30 times to scrap, defund or undercut the law since Obama signed it in March 2010. As with those bills, the repeal bill approved Wednesday on a 244-185 vote faces certain demise in the Democrat-controlled Senate.
But Republicans were looking to get lawmakers back on record on the law in the wake of the high court ruling last month. The ruling upheld most the law as constitutional, but in doing so it determined that the controversial penalty on those who do not buy insurance technically qualifies as a "tax" and not a "penalty" as the administration had claimed. That definition fueled GOP criticism of the law, and put some Democrats in a politically tricky position.
Five Democrats ended up defecting Wednesday. Reps. Mike Ross, D-Ark.; Dan Boren, D-Okla.; Mike McIntyre, D-N.C.; Larry Kissell, D-N.C.; and Jim Matheson, D-Utah, all voted yes.
In a show of party unity, all Republicans voted for the bill.
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Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/11/house-approves-obamacare-repeal-in-first-vote-since-court-ruling/#ixzz20LmpJGDJ
We all know that it won't make it through the Senate, but hey, I am glad the House voted to repeal it.
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Reps. Mike Ross, D-Ark.; Dan Boren, D-Okla.; Mike McIntyre, D-N.C.; Larry Kissell, D-N.C.; and Jim Matheson, D-Utah, all voted yes.
Do any of you cowards at DU wish to discuss this?
Of course not, you freaks don't come out from behind your walls.
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Do any of you cowards at DU wish to discuss this?
Of course not, you freaks don't come out from behind your walls.
More Dems voted to repeal it, than GOPers voted to pass it. Which vote was more bipartisan?
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They were saying on the news that the Dems who voted to repeal are just looking out for their seats. That isn't saying that I am not glad that they did vote to repeal it. The more who votes against it, the better.