112th Congress: 28 Bills to Repeal Patient Protection Act in 11 Days, But Nothing to Create Jobs
I see our elected representatives are hard at work, representing their constituencies. Not that those constituencies even vaguely represent voters, you understand. No, they would like to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 28 times. In 11 days, no less. What busy little beavers they are!
Here's a list as of today, divided by House and Senate.
House
H.R. 105 Dan Burton, GOP – Indiana : To repeal the Patient Protection Act & enact in its place incentives for people to buy health insurance.
H.R. 118 John Fleming, GOP – Louisiana : To permit a state to elect not to have an American Health Care Exchange.
H.R. 119 John Fleming, GOP – Louisiana : To prohibit hiring of irs agent to implement or enforce health insurance reform.
H.R. 127 John Graves, GOP – Georgia : To de-authorize funding of Patient Protection Act.
H.R. 141 Steve King, GOP – Iowa : To repeal the Patient Protection Act.
H.R. 145 Connie Mack, GOP – Florida : To repeal the Patient Protection Act.
H.R. 154 Ted Poe, GOP Texas : To prohibit any federal funds to be used to enforce Patient Protection Act.
H.R. 171 Cliff Stearns, GOP – Florida :
H.R. 2 Eric Cantor, GOP – Virginia : Repeal of Patient Protection Act.
H.R. 38 John Fleming, GOP – Louisiana : Rescind funds authorized for Patient Protection Act.
H.R. 9 David Drier, GOP – California : Requires Committees to look into Patient Protection Act.
H.R. 26 David Drier, GOP – California : Repeal Patient Protection Act.
H.R. 215 Don Young, GOP – Alaksa : Repeal Patient Protection Act.
H.R. 19 John Carter, GOP – Texas : Disapprove rules on MLR in Patient Protection Act.
H.R. 299 John Carter, GOP – Texas : Repeal Patient Protection Act.
H.R. 358 Joe Pitts, GOP – Penn : Remove abortion funding from Patient Protection Act (there is none)
H.R. 360 Michael Burgess – Texas : Amend Patient Protection Act to include President in Health Care Exchanges.
H.R. 364 Tom Latham, GOP – Iowa : To Repeal Patient Protection Act
H.R. 371 Marsha Blackburn, GOP – Tennessee : Repeal Title I of Patient Protection Act.
H.R. 5 Phil Gingrey, GOP – Georgia : Repeal Patient Protection Act.
H.R. 397 Wally Herger, GOP – California :Repeal Patient Protection Act.
H.R. 429 Darrell Issa, GOP, California – Repeal Patient Protection Act.
H.R. 452 Phil Roe, GOP, Tennessee – A bill to repeal Patient Protection Act.
H.R. 450 Dave Reichert, GOP, Washington – A bill to repeal Patient Protection Act.
Senate
S. 19 Orrin Hatch, GOP – Repeal Health Mandate & therefore repeal patient protections.
S. 17 Orrin Hatch, GOP – Repeal Tax on Medical Devices
S. 16 David Vitter, GOP – Repeal Patient Protection Act
S. 196 Chuck Grassley, GOP, Iowa – A bill to to provide congressional staff gets to participate in Exchange.
S. 192 Jim DeMint, GOP, South Carolina – A bill to repeal health care.
I thought it might be interesting to see what Democrats did in their first 11 days after assuming control of the House in 2006. Well, lookee there. All sorts of interesting bills in those first days. Everything from gun show loophole closures (David Dreier's baby) to First Amendment protections, to small business assistance to alternative energy.
But for Republicans and their keepers, this Congress is all about sticking it to Obama. Nothing more, nothing less.
WH Chief of Staff Daley made a statement yesterday that the White House is open to making "tweaks" to the Healthcare Law.
Basically, President Zero surrenders before a formal declaration of war is even made. Oh, he calls being all bipartisany.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
The only change to the Healthcare Law I want to see is an amendment that denies Dick Cheney access to future government paid for healthcare. In the spirit of bipartisanshipI see no reason to continue to spend good tax payer money on a person who is past his usefulness.
Pull the plug on Cheney.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Are a Death Panel!!
Eek, they're pulling the plug on Grandpa Death Torture Pigfucker! Oh Noes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNZkbWfERiM
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I mean, I disagree with Grassley as much as the next guy, but just going by the title of the bill (the full text is NOT available at this time) it doesn't look like it's defunding or repealing anything...
Like I said before, they only called it the "Repeal the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act" because you can't say "The That N!%%@r Is Not The Boss Of Us Act" on TV.
HEY BONER,
WHERE ARE THE JOBS?
What do you plan to do with us over the age of 55 who CANNOT EVEN GET A JOB at a fast-food joint because the kidz with their new master's degrees have those jobs?
No healthcare, no jobs, nothing, nada, bupkis, bullshit.
Gawd, you have no clue how much I want to spit on those PIGS in the Rethuggery Obstructionist Party of Teabagging Fewls.
I've never spit on anybody in my life, but ISTG,. I would now.
You can on faux.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
destroying America cause Boner and Imelda McConnel got their checks!
H.R. 105 Dan Burton, GOP – Indiana : To repeal the Patient Protection Act & enact in its place incentives for people to buy health insurance.
The Repubs complained about the mandate and instead they want to write their own mandate which will benefit insurance companies and cost us more money.
You got that right.
That the bill can be improved so I won't condemn the President until I read what changes or "tweeking" are suggested.
with a pretty looking anti-health care reform bill on his political resume and the next thing you know everybody wants one. I just hope this fad doesn't last as long as that damn Pokemon thing
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Professional hypocrites and expert liars. They make over 20 attempts to repeal healthcare reform that helps the average American. But every single fucking one of them is on government-provided insurance plans.
I hear the president's tweaks include single payer.
Oh, wait. I guess that transmission was garbled. It was supposed to be "I'm just to going to lay here."
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curious to read the 2nd list before I forward this information onward.
The Democrats giveth, the Republicans taketh away
Please fix your error on the list of bills Democrats have in the first 11 days. It would be nice to blast the right with the facts at hand. Thanks, and great post, btw.
The stupid. It burns.
Sure it ain't the clap?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Where is the "replace" part of the "repeal and replace"? Of course they really do not want to replace the HCR with anything. I wrote about it here so I won't make a long comment about if here. The truth of the matter is that the Republicans don't care about you and me or even the people in the Tea Party. They care about who are going to line their pockets. But you know that.
Repeal people-killing health care too! Next focus, abortions, sharia law, dirty muslims, black people, repeal more gun laws, stop teh gay, mandatory prayer, bible school vouchers, then, maybe, "jobs"..
Nah. Jobs just empower people - can't have that!
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Mr. Boehner, where are the jobs?
Definitely not here: H.R. 119 John Fleming, GOP – Louisiana : To prohibit hiring of irs agent to implement or enforce health insurance reform.
. . . is passing tons of legislation to create jobs. So many pieces in fact, that I couldn't even find a link to one!
Kind of like all those jobs they created during the two years they had the largest majorities in decades in both House and Senate and held the White House. Well, maybe not "jobs" but huge banker bonuses and the lowest taxes on the super-wealthy in generations anyway.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
my company is the recipient of one of the largest federal grants in the history of "giving away federal grants to create broadband services".
the money was matched at almost a dollar-for-dollar match by a consortium of major blue chip tech firms including Comcast, AT&T, Microsoft, Apple, Google and Qualcomm.
during Obama's State of the Union, he spoke of creating connections and smart, simple, fast applications so that farmers can send real-time status updates on crops to a shared commodities site, or even sell/trade their crops from their field ... or so that firemen can get a schematic of a building sent to a handheld device before entering a burning building.
we're doing that. me. my company. my coworkers.
we're installing internet in low income rural and urban communities, right now.
we're doing the hard work of topographical mapping, and analyzing weather patterns, so we know where to position satellite dishes. we're installing high speed modems in housing complexes so that people who never had access to the internet, can now look for jobs or help their kids write a report without trying to juggle their current jobs, public transportation schedules and local library schedules.
on a personal level, I'm analyzing last year's VITA tax assistance sites and comparing to this year's sites, so I can de-duplicate the data sets, update last year's data and import new resources .. so that our users can find a local site to help them file their taxes without having to pay huge fees to H&R Block.
there are about 100 of us, just in my little company, doing this very important work for the Congress and our corporate funders, and I'm just one of the 1.5 *MILLION* people who have been given tough jobs by the stimulus.
so I just wanted to take a minute out of my day to say that the meme that Obama hasn't created any jobs, is a bunch of crap. my last employer laid me and about 65 other people off, because IBM decided to sever our contract and ship our jobs out to China. I spent the next 6 months looking and applying for a dozen or more jobs in the private sector every day, with nothing coming back.
it was Obama, and the 111th Congress, who put me back to work. not the precious "free market", not "trickle down" from gigantic bonuses and tax breaks .... but the 111th Congress, who took the bull by the horns and made work for people.
the 111th Congress was damn effective, especially considering the record number of bull crap filibusters they had to overcome. 1.5 million jobs in a dead economy is a something to be proud of, and I defy John Boehner to create more.
was well laid out. We should be seeing many of these similar testimonials during the run up to the 2012 elections. The key word is "similar" if not "verbatim". It is a good sign when "contractors" and "entrepreneurs" can blog as well.
And for those other "1.5 *MILLION*" people who lucked out.
It's just that those 14.5 million people still unemployed could use a bit of that luck too. The bankers with the 14.5 million dollar bonus package? Not so much.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
By 2031, republicans will be proclaiming themselves the protectors of "Obamacare" and fight against any cuts to it.
Where are the jobs Boneher? Where are the bills that will create jobs Boneher? What have you done to create jobs McTurtkleshead? And don't give me that bullshit that cutting taxes on the mega filthy rich are going to create jobs because they sure as hell didn't create jobs when Bush was president.
Clinton created 22,700,000. Bush created 1.1 million. Jimmy Carter created 10,300,000 in four years. Bush created 1,100,000 in eight years. Johnson = 15,800,000. Nixon/Ford = 11,300,000. I don't think the Republicans should try to tell the Democrats how to create jobs. And I think this information should be screamed from the rooftops.
Maybe David Brock can help get this information out to the people who need to be informed.
Over the years the Republicans have said repeatedly that government should be run like a business.
It seems to me that the business model they like the best is the insurance industry, where just because you paid for it doesn't mean you are entitled to it. That is the business model they have been trying to bring to Social Security and the rest of what they like to call the "entitlement programs".
Obviously they have to defend and protect the model business practices they hope to apply to governance.
So, while I agree that a lot of the posturing is about ensuring Obama is a one term president, it is important to remember that the HCR plan that Republican proposed and Obama adopted was never meant to pass. In fact it was never meant to be brought up for a vote.
A business model that collects your money and then determines that you do not qualify to receive what you paid for is the one Republicans have been operating on for years as a Party with intermittent success. That is the business model they have always intended to apply to all business and all governance.
You can't get it if you don't pay for it and even if you do pay for it you may not qualify to get it, but profits will be made in every transaction and that will help the GDP look good.
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