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Keep pushing this issue Republicans.....We need this Repeal.....and even if we don't get it we need every Senator on Record as voting for repeal or against repeal...

GOP leader McConnell to force Senate vote on healthcare repeal

By Alexander Bolton - 02/01/11 02:12 PM ET

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) will force a vote on healthcare repeal as early as this week despite pledges from Senate Democrats to block the effort.

McConnell told colleagues during a lunch meeting Tuesday that he will offer healthcare reform repeal as an amendment to legislation on the Senate floor.


McConnell told Republican colleagues during a meeting in the Lyndon Baines Johnson room that he would offer the repeal amendment to the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill, according to a Senate GOP source.

The GOP leader plans to offer his amendment later Tuesday afternoon.


Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has agreed to allow Republicans a vote on the healthcare repeal amendment because they did not filibuster the motion to proceed for the FAA bill.

Democrats will raise a budget point-of-order objection to McConnell’s amendment because it would add $230 billion to the federal deficit, according to an estimate by the Congressional Budget Office.

Republicans have discounted the CBO estimate as inaccurate, arguing it’s based on “budget gimmickry.”

A senior Democratic aide said a vote on the point-of-order would likely happen on Wednesday. Republicans, who control 47 seats, would need at least 13 Democrats to join them to overcome the 60-vote threshold to waive the objection.

A Senate GOP aide said Democrats should try to find ways to reduce the impact of the law on employers.

“Instead, they’re trying to twist their way out of the spotlight as doing harm to job creators,” the aide said.


McConnell is responding to warnings from private-sector employers who say the healthcare law will impose burdensome regulations.

“Opposition to the bill continues to build,” McConnell said on the Senate floor Tuesday morning. “And when two federal courts in a row rule that this bill is unconstitutional and we learn every day of some other way it’s not only making healthcare worse but also hurting jobs and the economy, it’s no wonder more Americans support repeal than oppose it, and that the percentage of those who say they support full repeal is higher now than ever.”

A federal judge in Florida ruled Monday that President Obama’s healthcare reform law is unconstitutional because it forces people to buy health insurance. He struck down the entire law, going further than a federal judge in Virginia who ruled just the individual mandate unconstitutional.

The National Federation of Independent Business wrote a letter to members of Congress warning the healthcare law would stifle future job creation.

“Our small business owners remain deeply concerned that the healthcare law costs too much and further jeopardizes the economic recovery of our nation’s job creators,” wrote Susan Eckerly, senior vice president of federal public policy at NFIB.

“If new taxes, new mandates and new government programs in [the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act] remain intact the law will stifle the ability to hire, grow and invest — key components that are necessary to move America’s economy forward in a robust and meaningful way,” she wrote.