Ready or not, House Democratic leaders say they are pushing for a healthcare vote this week.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is poised to send a bill to the floor Monday in its final form, setting up a vote as early as Thursday.
The three-day delay is not for amendments and not even for debate; Thursday is the earliest Pelosi could hold a vote and keep her pledge to allow members and the public three days to study the final legislation.
But it’s possible Pelosi won’t have the votes by Thursday, and leaders have already warned their caucus that they could be working all weekend and into next week to win a vote on President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority.
SOURCE: The Hill
Monday, November 2, 2009
Barton wants hearing with Sebelius, CBO before health vote
A top-ranking GOP lawmaker is calling on Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Henry Waxman to convene a public hearing with key administration officials on Wednesday before the House votes on the healthcare bill.
Ranking member Joe Barton (R-Texas) wrote, in a letter to his counterpart, that it was imperative that lawmakers question Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Congressional Budget Office Director Doug Elmendorf as to the implications of the bill.
“The new legislation, H.R. 3962, creates a government-run health plan where the Secretary of HHS would be permitted to negotiate rates with providers. However, it seems clear from the legislative language of H.R. 3962 that doctors could, and most likely would, be paid a base rate at Medicare levels and the HHS Secretary would be authorized to pay providers less than the Medicare rate,” Barton wrote in the letter to Waxman.
SOURCE: The Hill
Ranking member Joe Barton (R-Texas) wrote, in a letter to his counterpart, that it was imperative that lawmakers question Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Congressional Budget Office Director Doug Elmendorf as to the implications of the bill.
“The new legislation, H.R. 3962, creates a government-run health plan where the Secretary of HHS would be permitted to negotiate rates with providers. However, it seems clear from the legislative language of H.R. 3962 that doctors could, and most likely would, be paid a base rate at Medicare levels and the HHS Secretary would be authorized to pay providers less than the Medicare rate,” Barton wrote in the letter to Waxman.
SOURCE: The Hill
More Health Changes
If Democrats are ready to hold a vote on health care reform sometime in the next week in the House, then it makes sense to expect a couple hundred more pages of legislative text changes will suddenly drop from the sky at some point.
Those would be courtesy of what's known as the "manager's amendment", which often arrives at the last minute, like 300-plus pages of text that appeared the night before a House vote on climate change legislation back in June.
[...] "Details on meetings times will be announced later," the site says, but there has been talk a manager's amendment could be released as early as Tuesday.
Remember the web address http://rules.house.gov - because that is going to be your best bet in coming days to find new language related to the health care issue and any last minute amendments.
SOURCE: Jamie Dupree
Those would be courtesy of what's known as the "manager's amendment", which often arrives at the last minute, like 300-plus pages of text that appeared the night before a House vote on climate change legislation back in June.
[...] "Details on meetings times will be announced later," the site says, but there has been talk a manager's amendment could be released as early as Tuesday.
Remember the web address http://rules.house.gov - because that is going to be your best bet in coming days to find new language related to the health care issue and any last minute amendments.
SOURCE: Jamie Dupree
House Vote Nears
This could be the week that the U.S. House of Representatives votes on health care reform, as Democrats put the issue on the schedule for members, and raised the possibility of working through this coming weekend to achieve that goal.
As of today, Democrats certainly don't have 218 votes locked up on health care reform in the House.
But I would bet that vote counters feel like they are heading in the right direction.
SOURCE: Jamie Dupree
As of today, Democrats certainly don't have 218 votes locked up on health care reform in the House.
But I would bet that vote counters feel like they are heading in the right direction.
SOURCE: Jamie Dupree
The Worst Bill Ever
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reportedly told fellow Democrats that she's prepared to lose seats in 2010 if that's what it takes to pass ObamaCare, and little wonder. The health bill she unwrapped last Thursday, which President Obama hailed as a "critical milestone," may well be the worst piece of post-New Deal legislation ever introduced.
In a rational political world, this 1,990-page runaway train would have been derailed months ago. With spending and debt already at record peacetime levels, the bill creates a new and probably unrepealable middle-class entitlement that is designed to expand over time. Taxes will need to rise precipitously, even as ObamaCare so dramatically expands government control of health care that eventually all medicine will be rationed via politics.
SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
In a rational political world, this 1,990-page runaway train would have been derailed months ago. With spending and debt already at record peacetime levels, the bill creates a new and probably unrepealable middle-class entitlement that is designed to expand over time. Taxes will need to rise precipitously, even as ObamaCare so dramatically expands government control of health care that eventually all medicine will be rationed via politics.
SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
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