Time to Stop Playing Games In Committee

The House of Representatives Rules Committee shut down Representatives Steve King’s ability to offer an amendment to completely defund Obamacare on the continuing resolution to fund the government through the end of the year. House Republicans are now playing games hiding behind parliamentary rules to say that it would somehow violate what the new Republican Majority is all about.

The Leadership put Steve King in this position by not adding the proper language to defund Obamacare in the underlying bill, notwithstanding the fact that these sorts of riders are a matter of routine on appropriations bills. What is not routine is bringing an appropriations bill to the floor of the House without having it be considered in committee where these sorts of amendments could have been more easily included.

The truth is that Leadership doesn’t want a major fight to defund Obamacare on the continuing resolution and are hiding behind House Rules to save face. The continuing resolution is a must-pass bill and prime opportunity for the House to try and shut down Obamacare with its historic “power of the purse.” At least force the Democrats to use political capital to get the provision out of the bill in the Senate.

Representative Tom Price (R-GA), the chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee, said he is committed to defunding the health care law, and he said a government shutdown over the law is in the hands of President Barack Obama.

YouTube Representative Price:

“As a physician, I can tell you that it’s destructive to the quality of health care, that it limits accessibility to health care and that it increases costs for virtually every single American out there so it’s incumbent upon us to be responsible and represent our constituents and make certain that it doesn’t get enacted.”

“Well, I think that’s up to the president. If he wants to close down the government based on upon an unconstitutional law, then that’s his prerogative. We’re not interested in shutting down the government. What we’re interested in doing is solving the challenges that we face based upon fundamental principles in the area of health care and elsewhere.”

The Republicans said they were going to defund Obamacare.  It’s time to stop the games and do what they were elected to do.  Now they are playing parliamentarian tricks to avoid it.  Contact your representative.  Remind them we vote again in 2012.

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