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| Source:House Majority Leader Eric Cantor- speaking on the House floor about his bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act. |
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From House Majority Leader Eric Cantor
There's a better term for what the House Republicans (led by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor) are doing here, I just can't think of it right now and haven't found it. But to put it simply: it's commonplace for Congress (House and Senate) to take up partisan, political votes, that they know won't either pass in the other chamber, or will be vetoed by the President, or will get blocked in the Senate, if the Senate Minority Leader has enough votes to block whatever the House majority leadership is trying to pass.
There's a better term for what the House Republicans (led by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor) are doing here, I just can't think of it right now and haven't found it. But to put it simply: it's commonplace for Congress (House and Senate) to take up partisan, political votes, that they know won't either pass in the other chamber, or will be vetoed by the President, or will get blocked in the Senate, if the Senate Minority Leader has enough votes to block whatever the House majority leadership is trying to pass.
House Republicans led by Speaker John Boehner (Republican, Ohio) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (Republican, Virginia) know their ObamaCare (also known as the Affordable Care Act) repeal will die in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Democrat, Nevada) will simply not take the bill up, or will have it voted down with all the Democrats voting against it and trying to use that vote against vulnerable, Senate Republicans, who are up for reelection.
House Republicans also know that they don't have a replacement for the Affordable Care Act, a bill that they've been campaigning against at least since 2010. So even if their repeal were to pass and they still didn't have an alternative to it, we would go back to the health care system that we had in 2009 that left 45 million Americans without health insurance, or at least affordable health insurance. Which seems to be what the Republican Party Leadership wants anyway.
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