Tuesday, February 10, 2015

House votes again to repeal Obamacare

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/03/politics/obamacare-repeal-vote-house/index.html

The republican party leading the House of Representatives have passed legislation to repeal Obamacare. There were not enough votes to "roll back Obamacare". It has been the 67th time the House has attempted to repeal, change, or defund Obamacare. The republican party leader have been reeling in recruits, putting effort to repealing Obamacare and have no plan to make a change or replace Obamacare. There is going to be a parliamentary process, but the senate believe even if the bill was to be repeal Obamacare passed it would be veto.

The constitution is involved in this with Article 1 section 7 "All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills." The House of Representative republicans working to repeal, change or replace Obamacare is given the power by the constitution, since Obamacare involves revenue for the federal government. In other words, the republican party can attempt to make a bill as many times they would like to "resolve" the Obamacare. The House of Representatives and the Senate have to do a Parliamentary process this involves Article 5 Amendment process "The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments. . ." even when this parliamentary process happen before they did not get enough votes. I do agree with the article that this is a waste of time, because if it has been 67 times the republicans attempted to accomplish the goal. This must mean they do not have a good plan or good reasons to make changes, repeal, or replacement. The republicans are supposedly doing there job by going by the peoples interest, but I'm sure they can attempt to do this for another important interest that is better for everyone.

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