Happy New Year: House To Vote On Repealing Core Pieces Of Obamacare In January

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Matt Vespa

Dec 28, 2015

 

Before the holidays, the Senate passed a reconciliation bill that guts key portions of Obamacare and defunds Planned Parenthood for a year. The use of the legislative tactic was discussed during the 2015 GOP Retreat in Hershey, PA last January. The Republican leadership finally got their act together and began drafting a bill by the fall of 2015; Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) promising the Senate would take up the measure as soon as it passes the House. This piece of budget reconciliation legislation, which only requires a simple majority to pass, easily cruised through the House (240-189), and went onto the Senate, where they did pass it by a 52-47 vote. The Senate version was different, so now it goes back to House, where this business is set to be settled as soon as members of Congress return from their holiday break (via The Hill):

 

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Of course, Obama is going to veto the measure, and as the Hill mentioned–the GOP doesn’t have the votes to override it. Nevertheless, this is something the GOP promised its voters, and it will be a piece of legislation that actually makes it to the president’s desk, unlike the 50+ other repeal votes they’ve set up over the past few years. The fact that it will make it out of Congress makes it a symbolic victory, which probably won’t satisfy the Tea Party wing of the party. But, alas, this is what happens when your party doesn’t occupy the Oval Office.