GOP: Healthcare repeal vote next week
Republicans agreed with the White House today that it’s time to get back to work. GOP leaders announced that the vote to repeal Obamacare will be held next week.
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The U.S. House of Representatives will vote next week on a bill that would repeal the healthcare reform law, the majority leader’s office said Thursday.
The original vote was scheduled for Wednesday but was postponed after the shooting tragedy in Tucson, in which six people died and 13 people, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., were injured.
“As the White House noted, it is important for Congress to get back to work, and to that end we will resume thoughtful consideration of the healthcare bill next week,” Laena Fallon, spokeswoman for Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., told The Hill. “It is our expectation that the debate will continue to focus on those substantive policy differences surrounding the new law.”
Republicans say they have no plans to change the name of the bill, “Repealing the Job Killing Health Care Reform Act,” despite Democratic criticism that it should not include the word “killing.”
Wild Thing’s comment………
Good one Republicans….and stay strong!!!!
“As the White House noted, it is important for Congress to get back to work…”
A big heh heh for saying it this way………..BEAUTIFUL.
I heard some dimwit Dem claim on Fox Radio News that it was too soon for congress to engage in such a devisive issue.
I mean sheesh, they are going to use what happened in AZ as lon g as they can for any and everything that do not want to happen.
And to say it is too soon? The heck with that. The DEMOCRATS crammed the bill through in the dead of night, behind closed doors with crooked deals cut on Christmas Eve.
The democrats wanting to change the name good grief! Thank God the Republicans said no way on this too.
I LOVE the name and that they are sticking with it; NO NONSENSE JUST COMMON SENSE(CENTS): “Repealing the Job Killing Health Care Reform Act.”
I like the moniker also. However I think I would prefer the word freedom in place of the word job.
Jan, me too, and it is going to be hard for them, they need to be very strong about things. I know they can do it too.