The Senate narrowly passed a budget bill to repeal core provisions of the Affordable Care Act and strip funding from Planned Parenthood for one year, approving legislation that is sure to be vetoed.
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Six days after the Colorado Springs mass murder and the day after the San Bernardino massacre, Senate Republicans voted proactively to allow potential terrorists and mentally unstable people and potential mass murderers to easily obtain firearms.
Republicans lack the two-thirds House and Senate majorities needed to override a veto. That’s because it sets the stage for Congress’ legislative strategy to repeal Obama’s signature healthcare law should the GOP retake the White House. Two years after the issue of Obamacare divided Republicans and led to a government shutdown, Thursday’s vote was a rare and somewhat surprising moment of party unity. Even as an empty statement in a bill that is never going to become law. However, Republicans hailed its passage as a symbolic victory and fulfillment of their promise to hold President Obama accountable for his controversial 2010 health care law by forcing him to veto legislation that has broad public support.
In an interview with Reuters, Pelosi said Republicans left Planned Parenthood out of the offer they sent to her on Tuesday.
Senators blocked efforts by Democrats and by Collins to remove the language targeting Planned Parenthood.
“As a doctor who’s taken care of people in Wyoming for decades, I’m always looking to make health care more affordable and accessible for American families”.
Planned Parenthood came under fire earlier this year after an anti-abortion group posted online videos that it said showed Planned Parenthood illegally selling tissue from aborted fetuses.
Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., accused Republicans of acting counter to the needs of their constituents in order to throw money at corporations.
Johnson says millions of Americans had their insurance policies canceled after Obama promised that if they liked their health plans, they could keep them.
“It is absurd and cruel to throw out these gains and go back to a system that rations health care to the healthy and wealthy while leaving those who are less fortunate out in the cold”.
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“We’ve reached a pretty scary time in our nation’s history where we have Americans writing and calling their elected representatives saying they need relief from their own government”, said No. 2 Senate Leader John Cornyn of Texas.
