Call ‘em crazy. Call it the most important thing Congress could do. The House of Representatives will make another run at repealing Obamacare this week. Just like last time—and the time before that—the repeal vote is for show. But it’s not all for show. Republicans hope that, by showing their commitment to repeal, they can [...]
Sequestration! Runnnnnn! That seems to be the reaction of many in Congress and the president to impending across-the-board cuts that will occur March 1st under an agreement that they struck in 2011. [record scratch sound] Wait. Republicans and Democrats are running from the agreement they struck in 2011? Yes, indeed. Back in mid-2011, Republicans didn’t [...]
In the fading hours of the 112th Congress, a bill to create a Committee on Repeals was introduced in the House of Representatives. This is an idea Joseph Gibson put forward in his book, A Better Congress: Change the Rules, Change the Results.
H. Res. 735 would expressing the sense of the House that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009 violates article I, section 7, clause 1 of the United States Constitution because it was a ”Bill for raising Revenue” that did not originate in the House of Representatives. That’s an argument that has been [...]
The bill to repeal Obamacare that House Republicans will run to the floor this coming week has not been introduced yet. Consistent with their promise of advance notice, though, they have made a copy available. This one is blessedly brief at six-and-a-quarter pages. Five of those pages are introductory material and “findings,” the statements Congress [...]
Hot on the heels of the Supreme Court’s approval of Obamacare, also known as Public Law 111-148, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, there’s another bill in Congress to repeal it. Another bill would defund it. These might be just for show.
Yes, indeed. H.R. 5859 would repeal an obsolete provision in title 49, United States Code, requiring motor vehicle insurance cost reporting. That’s a new idea, repealing things.
H.R. 2915 is called the “American Taxpayer and Western Area Power Administration Customer Protection Act of 2011.” It’s one of those rare bills to repeal something. Under current law, the Western Area Power Administration can borrow funds from the Department of the Treasury to finance projects for transmitting electric power, up to a limit of [...]
This week, after the delay caused by the tragic Tucson, Arizona shooting, the House of Representatives takes up H.R. 2, the Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act. The bill would repeal “Obamacare,” also known as Public Law 111-148, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. If you know about congressional procedure, though, you know [...]
The new Congress started last week. Most of its work was ceremonial and organizational. We wrote about the transparency plans of the new Congress, which we’re pretty big on around here. Speaking of big, Congress saw a big number of bills introduced—311 of ‘em, in fact. The first bills of the year tell you a [...]