The topic of discussion for this
Constitution Monday is the continuing battle over Obamacare. The U.S. House of
Representatives passed a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, but the U.S.
Senate cannot seem to get the job done. The vote on the Senate bill has been
postponed twice, and a vote to strictly repeal Obamacare is promised for this
week. As reported by Conservative Review, the House Freedom Caucus has decided
to force some action.
The House Freedom Caucus has not
abandoned the health care fight. In fact, it has declared all-out war on
Obamacare.
On Wednesday, the conservative House
members filed a motion to force a vote on the 2015 repeal bill the
GOP-controlled Congress passed and sent to President Obama.
Congressman Tom Garrett, R-Va., a
freshman representative, filed a special rule known as a “discharge petition”
to begin the process of forcing a vote.
Garrett said that he was sending a
message to several individuals or groups, including the President, the House
leadership, the Senate, and the Democrats. The message is that the House
Freedom Caucus will support anyone who will work toward repealing Obamacare.
Every member of this body elected prior
to last year’s election who has an “R” beside their name at some point voted on
many of the dozens of occasions on which we passed a repeal…. Let me be clear
on this: It’s not a full repeal and nothing. It’s a full repeal with two years …
with a 24-month phase-out to find a replacement.
This is a message to House leadership
that we support their best efforts and we want to work with them to continue to
move the ball forward to do what we all said we wanted to do….
This is a message to the Senate that if
they act as Leader McConnell has suggested that they act, we have their backs.
We will be here. This is a message to the president of the United States that
we haven’t abandoned the fight, nor have we relinquished our desire to fight
for the promises we made.
The
repeal legislation in question “would repeal most of Obamacare,” but it
requires the “signatures of 218 members of Congress.” By signing or refusing to
sign the petition, each member of Congress will demonstrate their support or
non-support to repealing Obamacare – and voters will take notice.
Freedom
Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) says, “We should put on President Trump’s
desk what we put on President Obama’s desk. We should demand no less.”
This
writer agrees with Garrett and Meadows that Congress should pass the bill and
put it on Trump’s desk. The in-fighting and non-support of Republicans is not
acceptable. It is time to repeal Obamacare!
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