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Upset about failed ObamaCare votes, Trump calls on changes from Senate Republicans
In the aftermath of the Senate’s failed ObamaCare votes, President Trump on Saturday urged leaders of the GOP-controlled chamber to change the rules to a simple 51-vote majority to pass legislation, saying they are “looking like fools” and calling the 60-vote requirement a “joke.”
This last vote on repeal ObamaCare only needed 50 votes + Pence to pass, or am I wrong ? Not sure if it had to go back to the House again then back to Senate for 60. Sorry I don't follow Congress that close.

 

 

If they want to make any meaningful changes to Obamacare, or any meaningful replacement, they need 60 votes, or to do away with the filibuster. The 51 vote threshold is only to pass something substantially similar to the House bill - any major deviations from what the House passed requires going through the full debate/filibuster rules.

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If they want to make any meaningful changes to Obamacare, or any meaningful replacement, they need 60 votes, or to do away with the filibuster. The 51 vote threshold is only to pass something substantially similar to the House bill - any major deviations from what the House passed requires going through the full debate/filibuster rules.

But invoking the nuclear option or employing parliamentary shenanigans to force thru an unpopular piece of legislation has never been done before

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But invoking the nuclear option or employing parliamentary shenanigans to force thru an unpopular piece of legislation has never been done before

Reid stupidly used nuclear option to push through federal judges. McConnell then did the same with SCOTUS pick in Gorsich. The Dems are moving farther left and the Republicans farther right leaving little chance for bipartisan bills. It would be a grave mistake to use the nuclear option with major pieces of legislation as the founders made it 60 votes for a reason as we are a Republic. Pressure from donors may make the nuclear option the new norm though.

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Reid stupidly used nuclear option to push through federal judges. McConnell then did the same with SCOTUS pick in Gorsich. The Dems are moving farther left and the Republicans farther right leaving little chance for bipartisan bills. It would be a grave mistake to use the nuclear option with major pieces of legislation as the founders made it 60 votes for a reason as we are a Republic. Pressure from donors may make the nuclear option the new norm though.

No, that was not done by the founders but is a senate rule. Back in the day we had 13 states and only 26 senators.

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Reid stupidly used nuclear option to push through federal judges. McConnell then did the same with SCOTUS pick in Gorsich. The Dems are moving farther left and the Republicans farther right leaving little chance for bipartisan bills. It would be a grave mistake to use the nuclear option with major pieces of legislation as the founders made it 60 votes for a reason as we are a Republic. Pressure from donors may make the nuclear option the new norm though.

There is no "60 vote" requirement. There is a two-thirds majority requirement For overriding a veto and approving a treaty. But legislation passes by simple majority.

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There is no "60 vote" requirement. There is a two-thirds majority requirement For overriding a veto and approving a treaty. But legislation passes by simple majority.

Right. I should of been more specific in that they would need to go nuclear if they wanted to get around the Byrd rule.

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There is no "60 vote" requirement. There is a two-thirds majority requirement For overriding a veto and approving a treaty. But legislation passes by simple majority.

 

Trump must not ask his advisors before making wrong demands.

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No, that was not done by the founders but is a senate rule. Back in the day we had 13 states and only 26 senators.

And the Senators represented the interests of their individual state, not of the officially sanctioned partisan organization and associated special interest groups.

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Oregon finds nearly half the Medicaid recipients checked in recent months no longer qualified

| July 29, 2017 | Jeff Manning & Hillary Borrud

Oregon has determined it awarded Medicaid health benefits to more than 37,000 people during the past year who earned too much money or otherwise failed to qualify, new figures show.

That high number represents nearly half the Medicaid recipients whose incomes the state rechecked this spring and summer. It has come to light as the state health authority works through a backlog of eligibility checks caused by technology problems and the spike in enrollment under the Affordable Care Act.

The count surpasses predictions to the Legislature by agency director Lynne Saxton, who pegged the number at 32,000. And it almost certainly will climb higher, as the agency has another 31,000 cases still to check.

Historically, around 28 percent of Oregonians on Medicaid no longer qualify for the program at annual check-ins. Now, as Oregon works through its backlog, the rate of people being deemed ineligible is closer to 45 percent.

(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...


How Trump can win the ObamaCare fight: End the "friends and cronies" exemption for Congress

July 28,2017 | By John Fund

Polls taken by Independent Women’s Voice, a free market group, find that 94 percent of voters think Congress shouldn’t be exempted from the insurance provisions of ObamaCare. Most voters blame both parties equally for the exemption, which means Republicans will also be hurt politically if it stands.

“The president should announce that he is instructing OPM to end the exemption and subsidies for Congress,” IWV president Heather Higgins wrote in Monday’s Wall Street Journal.

”If the president does this, he’d have huge negotiating leverage. He would align the interests of the ruling class with those of his voters, forcing Congress to act. He might even get some Democratic votes.”

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com .

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REMINDER who the "single payer is.................

 

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Great pic - your search skillz are stellar!

 

What you fail to grasp is - the 17 percent of our GDP we spend on HC - you already pay for as a consumer and taxpayer...you pay for it in higher taxes, higher costs at the store - depressed wages because your employer is paying your HC costs.....

 

But that cartoon is HYSTERICAL!!!

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