Thursday, November 4, 2010

Boehner Vows Republicans Will Do 'Everything We Can' to Repeal Obamacare

(CNSNews.com) – House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) hinted that House Republicans may try to use the upcoming appropriations process to de-fund President Obama’s health care "reform" law. Boehner, answering questions at a post-election press conference at the Capitol on Wednesday, was asked whether he would use the upcoming budget process to deprive the government of the funding necessary to implement the health care provisions.
Boehner said that the new GOP House majority will do “everything we can” to repeal and replace the unpopular law. “I believe that the health care bill that was enacted by the current Congress will kill jobs in America, ruin the best health care system in the world, and bankrupt our country. That means that we have to do everything we can to try to repeal this bill and replace it with commonsense reforms that will bring down the cost of health insurance.”
Because Congress has not passed a single appropriations bill for fiscal year 2011, which actually began Oct. 1, it will have to take them up during both the upcoming lame-duck session and the inaugural session of the newly elected Congress, where Boehner presumably will lead a Republican-dominated House.
Federal spending bills originate in the House and must be approved by the House in order to become law, giving Boehner and the GOP a prime opportunity to use the appropriations bills--particularly for the Health and Human Services Department--to starve the reform effort of funding.




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