THESE LEGISLATORS WILL CONTEST OBAMACARE: ELECTIONS ARE COMING
8 more in Congress sign on for Obamacare repeal
‘Pulled out by the roots’ plan now has support from 133
By Bob Unruh
© 2010 WorldNetDaily
Its goal is to “pull out by the roots” the legislation that, among other things, will require citizens to provide their “Body Mass Index” rating to the government and purchase “government-approved” health insurance whether they want it or not.
Summer sizzle: Obamacare could be repealed before election
WND reported on the plan by U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, last week when his discharge petition had the support of 109 members of the House, exactly half the minimum it would need to advance.
There now are 133.
The proposal states: “Pursuant to clause 2 of rule XV, I, Steve King of Iowa, move to discharge the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, Natural Resources, Rules, House Administration and Appropriations from the consideration of the bill (H.R. 4972) to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which was referred to said committees on March 25, 2010, in support of which motion the undersigned Members of the House of Representatives affix their signatures.”
(Story continues below)
|
|
Its target is the $940 billion, or greater, bill adopted by the Democrat-controlled Congress in March.
Advocates say constituents need to call their representatives to tell them to get on board right away so that the petition is positioned to move forward whether or not the GOP becomes the majority in the House after the 2010 fall elections.
The move by King also has prompted an online petition campaign to rally the public to the cause.
“Who would have thought we might have a chance to repeal Obamacare – this term?” exclaimed Joseph Farah, editor and CEO of WND, in response to the plan by King.
Now it’s time for the public to turn up the pressure, he urged. Farah’s public petition drive is intended to coalesce support for King’s measure.
King has explained, “Republicans are the proponents of limited government, personal responsibility and constitutional liberties, principles which ‘Obamacare’ violates. Recognizing this fact, every House Republican voted against ‘Obamacare’ just three months ago. Now that our repeal effort has been endorsed by House GOP leadership, House Republicans should stand by their votes by signing onto discharge petition No. 11.”
He said, “The American people did not want ‘Obamacare’ passed, and they have consistently called for their representatives to show that they stand with them by repealing the legislation. Our discharge petition provides an avenue for repeal that even Speaker Pelosi cannot block. Republicans recognize that a clean, 100-percent repeal bill is the best strategy for uprooting ‘Obamacare’ lock, stock and barrel, and will continue to show their commitment to ‘Obamacare”s repeal by quickly signing our discharge petition.”
Congressional officials said Pelosi, an adamant advocate for government-controlled health care, never would allow a vote on a plan to overturn Obamacare. But through the discharge-petition process in the House, if a majority of members sign on, she cannot stop it. It still would need to be moved through the Senate and, ultimately, the Oval Office, possibly by a veto override.
The fact that support is required from 218 members also means any plan thus endorsed likely would pass the 435-member House.
GOP leaders want all party members to be on board, as they all voted against Obamacare. Also, Democrats who opposed the narrowly approved plan are being asked to participate.
An inside congressional source told WND the pressure also will be on all other members as the November 2010 elections approach, since poll after poll has indicated a significant majority of Americans dislike Obamacare to the point of seeking its repeal.
The issue is expected to play a role in the elections, with voters, especially supporters of tea-party principles, calling on their representatives to stand up against what a multitude of lawsuits already are describing as an unconstitutional power grab by Democrats.
Both Democrats and Republicans will have to answer to voters on the issue, the source said.
And, whether the GOP or the Democrats are in a majority after the fall elections, the petition will put the issue in a position to be forwarded immediately.
“This isn’t a battle we want to give up on,” the source told WND. “Obamacare needs to get pulled out by the roots.”
House members who previously endorsed King’s plan are:
- Steve King, Iowa
- Connie Mack, Florida
- Michele Bachmann, Minnesota
- Todd Tiahrt, Kansas
- Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee
- Tom Price, Georgia
- Paul C. Broun, Georgia
- Jerry Moran, Kansas
- Tom Graves, Georgia
- Rob Bishop, Utah
- Joseph R. Pitts, Pennsylvania
- Mike Pence, Indiana
- Lynn A. Westmoreland, Georgia
- Glenn Thompson, Pennsylvania
- Jeb Hensarling, Texas
- Louie Gohmert, Texas
- Judy Biggert, Illinois
- John Boozman, Arkansas
- Kenny Marchant, Texas
- Jim Jordan, Ohio
- Jason Chaffetz, Utah
- Gary G. Miller, California
- Bob Goodlatte, Virginia
- Doug Lamborn, Colorado
- Robert E. Latta, Ohio
- Tom Cole, Oklahoma
- Trent Franks, Arizona
- K. Michael Conaway, Texas
- Jo Bonner, Alabama
- Dan Burton, Indiana
- J. Gresham Barrett, South Carolina
- John Linder, Georgia
- Bill Posey, Florida
- Lynn Jenkins, Kansas
- Mike Coffman, Colorado
- Roscoe G. Bartlett, Maryland
- Virginia Foxx, North Carolina
- John Campbell, California
- Mike Rogers, Alabama
- Randy Neugebauer, Texas
- Charles K. Djou, Hawaii
- Pete Sessions, Texas
- F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., Wisconsin
- Howard Coble, North Carolina
- Candice S. Miller, Michigan
- Steve Scalise, Louisiana
- Robert B. Aderholt, Alabama
- Phil Gingrey, Georgia
- Kevin Brady, Texas
- Pete Olson, Texas
- C.W. Bill Young, Florida
- Tom McClintock, California
- Joe Wilson, South Carolina
- Mac Thornberry, Texas
- John R. Carter, Texas
- John Shimkus, Illinois
- Mary Fallin, Oklahoma
- Gus M. Bilirakis, Florida
- John Fleming, Louisiana
- Jeff Flake, Arizona
- W. Todd Akin, Missouri
- Peter Hoekstra, Michigan
- Donald A. Manzullo, Illinois
- Eric Cantor, Virginia
- Scott Garrett, New Jersey
- John A. Boehner, Ohio
- Henry E. Brown, Jr., South Carolina
- Kay Granger, Texas
- Parker Griffith, Alabama
- Ted Poe, Texas
- Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Washington
- Rodney Alexander, Louisiana
- Fred Upton, Michigan
- Jean Schmidt, Ohio
- John Sullivan, Oklahoma
- Peter J. Roskam, Illinois
- Blaine Luetkemeyer, Missouri
- Michael C. Burgess, Texas
- Ken Calvert, California
- Lee Terry, Nebraska
- Patrick T. McHenry, North Carolina
- Mary Bono Mack, California
- Spencer Bachus, Alabama
- Jeff Miller, Florida
- John B. Shadegg, Arizona
- Gregg Harper, Mississippi
- John Abney Culberson, Texas
- Dana Rohrabacher, California
- David P. Roe, Tennessee
- J. Randy Forbes, Virginia
- Bill Cassidy, Louisiana
- Brett Guthrie, Kentucky
- Denny Rehberg, Montana
- Sue Wilkins Myrick, North Carolina
- Tom Latham, Iowa
- Michael K. Simpson, Idaho
- John Kline, Minnesota
- Ron Paul, Texas
- Thomas J. Rooney, Florida
- Daniel E. Lungren, California
- Darrell E. Issa, California
- Harold Rogers, Kentucky
- John J. Duncan, Jr., Tennessee
- Todd Russell Platts, Pennsylvania
- Duncan Hunter, California
- Sam Graves, Missouri
- Bob Inglis, South Carolina
- Edward R. Royce, California
- Ralph M. Hall, Texas
- Timothy V. Johnson, Illinois
- Michael T. McCaul, Texas
- Thaddeus G. McCotter, Michigan
- Robert J. Wittman, Virginia
- Lamar Smith, Texas
- Cynthia M. Lummis, Wyoming
- Wally Herger, California
- Vern Buchanan, Florida
- Christopher H. Smith, New Jersey
- Geoff Davis, Kentucky
- Jack Kingston, Georgia
- Brian P. Bilbray, California
- Zach Wamp, Tennessee
- Jerry Lewis, California
- Erik Paulsen, Minnesota
- Roy Blunt, Missouri
WND reported when House Minority Leader John Boehner gave Obamacare a failing grade for its first three months due to evidence of billions in new taxes, job losses it will trigger, its increase of the deficit and other impacts Americans now are discovering.
Pelosi earlier said voters would be able to find out what was in the bill after lawmakers adopted it and President Obama made it law.
Now it’s being revealed that nearly another half a billion dollars in taxes for Obama’s plan will come from charity-based 501(c)(3) hospitals and a whopping $70 billion will come from those who don’t buy “government-approved” health insurance or in some other way fail to comply with the law’s demands.
A recent poll by the Obama-friendly CNN revealed 56 percent of the public disapproves of the law.
“While rushing their massive government takeover of health care through Congress, President Obama and congressional Democrats promised it would create jobs, lower costs, reduce the deficit, allow Americans to keep their health care, protect seniors’ coverage, prohibit taxpayer-funded abortion and, of course, gain the support of the American people,” Boehner’s report said.
“It isn’t just that none of these promises or predictions have turned out to be true. In every instance, Obamacare has made matters worse,” the report said.
Among the study’s conclusions:
- “Some of the nation’s largest employers have announced they will be forced to make cutbacks as a result of Obamacare’s job-killing mandates.”
- “Two independent government entities … have confirmed that the new law fails to lower health-care costs and reduce the deficit.”
- “Obamacare includes at least a dozen violations of President Obama’s pledge to not raise taxes on middle-class families.”
- “The government has confirmed that the new law’s massive Medicare cuts will fall squarely on the backs of seniors, millions of whom will be forced off their current Medicare coverage.”
The report also said Obama officials have confirmed their new law “will force some 87 million Americans to drop their current coverage despite President Obama’s promise that Americans would be able to keep the coverage that they have.”
The report further states Obama has done nothing to implement his executive order that was supposed to prevent taxpayer funding of abortions.
The result is that people like it no better now – or even less – than before they knew many of the details. Dozens of states also have revolted against the plan.
“This report chronicles Obamacare’s broken promises in the three months since it became law,” Boehner said. “The American people remain squarely opposed to this government takeover of health care that has already failed to live up to specific promises made by President Obama and Washington Democrats.
“Republicans are listening to the American people, and fighting to repeal Obamacare so we can replace it with common-sense reforms focused on lowering costs and protecting jobs,” he said.
According to the plan, some $400 million will hit nonprofit hospitals, $17 billion will come from those “who do not purchase government-approved health insurance,” another $52 billion will hit workers “who fail to fully comply with government health-insurance mandates,” and a tax hike for Medicare will pull another $210 billion from the grocery budgets of Americans.
More than 130 top economists also submitted a document, according to the report, that “the health-care bill contains a number of provisions that will eliminate jobs, reduce hours and wages and limit future job creation.”
Obama’s law is facing a number of lawsuits contesting its constitutionality, claiming the federal government has no right to require consumers to participate in a business transaction – the purchase of health insurance – if they choose not to.
Comments are closed.
