House GOP to move next week on health care defunding

[sabra]

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN) - A day before House Republican leaders head to a lunch with President Obama at the White House, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said that the GOP will move next week to try to block funding for one of the President's biggest priorities – health care reform.

Asked at his weekly session with reporters whether the government funding bill the House is preparing to vote on will include money to pay for the new health care law, Cantor said, "I expect to see one way or the other the product coming out of the House to speak to that and to preclude any funding to be used for that."

House GOP leaders have vowed that they would use Congress' power of the purse to defund the new law. But Cantor's statement Tuesday was the first official word that the Republican-led House would begin that effort right away.

The House is scheduled to vote next week on a spending bill that funds government agencies for the remaining seven months of the 2011 fiscal year. The current resolution expires on March 4th. Many of the major provisions of the new health care law do not go into effect until 2014, but some federal agencies, such as the Department of Health and Human Services, are beginning to implement parts of the law, so Congress could start choking off money to these agencies, preventing them from moving ahead with this work.

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/08/house-gop-to-move-next-week-on-health-care-defunding/

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Get sick and die America." - RepubliCONS Against America

"If you smelly proles can't afford to pay to keep our RepubliCorp Health Care Profit Centers floating in a pool of filthy lucre, then you can just eat shit, get sick, and die in the gutter. Sneer."

- RepubliCONS Against America

[AlbertCat]

2. House GOP to move next week on health care defunding

You mean..

House GOP to move next week on job killing health care defunding


because creating jobs is their top, #1 priority! ... or something....

:eyes:

[onehandle]

3. Good. Start with your own.

Millionaires in Congress shouldn't be covered by my tax dollars.

Flush your pensions too.

[AC_Mem]

4. Democrats need to stop this nonsense

It is a waste of time and MY tax dollars.

Where are the jobs Bohner? Canter?

Where
Are
The
Jobs

[bluestateguy]

5. I trust there are creative accounting methods the Administration can use to keep the money flowing

And I will trust that they are working on that.

[Plucketeer]

6. Because it's ...

JOBS, JOBS, JOBS - focused like a laser, we are!

[lsewpershad]

7. Time to get out in the streets yet?

PLEASE let me know.

[patrice]

9. Phone Calls, please!! The streets on March 19th, link below:

http://www.answercoalition.org/national/news/march-19-2011-resist-war-machine.html

And if you say March 19 is just about the War, not Health Care, you should think a little about how much the two are connected through the budget, WHICH BTW, needs a new "cap" right now at about the same time as we address the Medicare reform for Fraud, Waste, and Abuse, which was provided for in the Affordable Care Act of 2010, a.k.a. "Obamacare".

[patrice]

8. "Now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of their country!!" nt

[RBInMaine]

10. For all those Obama bashers here, THIS is YOUR alternative. Like these apples?

[msongs]

11. Obama loves republicans and their family values. no big deal lol nt

[louis-t]

12. Why do repugs hate America?

:shrug:

[shawn703]

13. Pay for it out of the defense budget

It's a national security issue, Republicans wouldn't dare cut defense spending, and if 12 billion can go missing in Iraq before anyone notices, I'm sure paying to implement the health care law would still leave plenty of money for the military to play with.

[Arkana]

14. Well, it's good to know that their priorities are straight!

I mean, it's not like they should be getting us JOBS or anything. Oh, no. Not at all.

Fuckers.