CNS News is reporting that a group of 21 House members have sent a letter to all GOP Senators, warning them against a cloture vote on the Continuing Resolution. A vote on cloture would give Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) the ability to remove the defunding Obamacare provision included in the CR. The House conservatives who signed the letter stated that they consider a cloture vote the same as a vote in support of Obamacare.
“it is highly likely that Majority Leader Harry Reid will move to amend the House-passed CR and remove the language from the bill that defunds Obamacare before sending it back to the House.“As you are also aware,” the conservatives wrote, “such a motion can only proceed if three-fifths of the Senate invokes cloture and allows this amendment process to begin. Simply put, the only chance that Senator Reid has to pursue this course of action is if six or more Republican Senators join the Democrats in voting to invoke cloture.“Therefore,” the House conservatives said to every Republican senator, “it shall be our policy to regard any cloture vote that gives Senator Reid a green light to reinstate Obamacare into this CR the same as a vote for Obamacare itself.”The cloture vote will come today and requires 60 votes. It will allow debate to end on the Continuing Resolution and proceed to toward a final vote. Reid controls 54 votes, while the GOP has 46 so should the Senate GOP stand together the cloture vote would be stalled. According to Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK), who authored the letter, "until Harry Reid guarantees a 60-vote threshold on any amendment including his amendment to add back Obamacare" the Senate GOP should vote against cloture. Otherwise a simple majority of the Senate could vote to continue Obamacare funding.
Heroes still exist.
And this is fighting for freedom? Gimme a friggin' break dude.
ReplyDeleteFreedom in this free republic is allowing a duly passed & signed bill to become law. P.S. It withstood a constitutional challenge. Freedom is not jailing millions of citizens and seizing billions of personal property for ingesting, growing and/or harboring a plant or plant material harmlessly utilized by humanity for millennia around the globe. Kinda like banning coffee.
ReplyDelete“The only time you shut down the government is when you shut it down and refuse to open it until you accomplish what you want. We’ll fold like hotcakes. You do not take a hostage you are not going to for sure shoot, and we will not for sure shoot this hostage.” --said Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma. following today's 79-to-19 vote included the top Republican leadership and easily exceeded the 60-vote threshold to break a filibuster.approving stopgap spending legislation to keep the federal government open without gutting President Obama’s health care law, setting up a weekend showdown with the House that will decide whether much of the government shuts down at midnight Monday.
ReplyDeleteSee ya in da trenches soldier of freedom's just another word for refusing to allow a constitutional law to proceed to enactment.
You're digressing. This conversation isn't about drugs, which are, as I've stated ad nauseum, not among the top twenty issues facing America.
ReplyDeleteNow, the fact that this is a "duly passed" law, passed without one Republican vote in either Chamber, means nothing. The majority of Americans who hate it has done nothing but grow since it was passed.
So the fight goes back to the House. It for god damn sure doesn't end.
ReplyDeleteWord has it the House will offer a compromise to delay it one year I say try it for 3. How can the American public opine on this when the exchanges aren't. Even open yet? Oh, that's riight, they listenbed to your ilk's incessant negativity. From BEFORE the beginning in 2008. No wonder the Dems passed this bill with sleight of hand.. polls preceding the election of 2008 shiwed strong support for health care reform.
ReplyDeleteThere's already a delay in the employer mandate. There's already a delay in the small-business exchanges. There are already exemptions for various companies and unions. A growing, never shrinking, majority of Americans hate it. Families across America are getting cancellation or premium-increase notices from their insurance companies. Doctors are turning away Medicaid patients. Whatever it takes to stop this monstrosity dead in its tracks the first possible moment is the only acceptable way forward.
ReplyDeleteWell we shall surely see. Again.
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