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Campaign for Liberty to Congress: Cut ObamaCare taxes
Campaign for Liberty has joined a coalition of 45 free-market groups in a letter to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orin Hatch, calling on him to make sure the Senate's ObamaCare legislation cuts all ObamaCare taxes. The tax cuts are one of [...]
This week in Congress and Budget and ObamaCare update
The House of Representatives is not in session this week. However, the Senate will be in session considering nominations, including former Congresswoman Heather Wilson's nomination for Secretary of the Air Force and Scott Gottlieb's nomination [...]
RINOcare Manager's amendment...real changes or lipstick on a pig?
SPOILER ALERT: the Pig is wearing lipstick. House leadership and the White House have been negotiating with conservative members of Congress to make changes to the Republican Obamacare "replacement bill." These changes will be included in a [...]
Ron Paul Classics: Obamacare's problems and its Republican enablers
As Congressional Republicans continued to debate whether to repeal ObamaCare with something good, something ok, or something bad, it might be a good time to look back at Ron Paul's columns "The Right Lessons from ObamaCare Meltdown" and [...]
This week in Congress
The US Senate came into session yesterday to debate and confirm surveillance state supported Robert Pompeo as CIA director. The Senate will likely spend most of the week on nominations. The House is in session Monday through Tuesday due to the [...]
Update on budget and ObamaCare "repeal"
Congress is out of session this week for Memorial Day recess. When they get back, they will need to get to work on passing a budget and begin working on appropriations. Usually the House would have already started working on appropriation [...]
When is government-run healthcare not goverment-run health care?
When it's supported by Republicans of course. . . One of the main features of the "compromise" reached between conservative and moderate House Republicans on legislation "repealing-and-replacing" ObamaCare is to provide $15 billion of new [...]
The good, the bad, and the ugly in the GOP's health care plan
Today, the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee marked-up the parts of the Republican Obamacare "replacement." Here is a breakdown of the good, the bad, and the ugly of the Republican plan: The Good: 1. [...]
Rand Paul Unveils Obamacare Replacement Plan
Seantor Rand Paul (R-KY) has recently introduced the Obamacare Replacement Plan (S. 222). As the title indicates, Senator Paul's plan repeals Obamacare and replaces it with (largely) free-market reforms, such as: A tax credit of up to [...]
What To Expect in the Lame Duck: Obamacare Bailouts?
Passing legislation funding the government is not the only issue facing Congress when it returns for the "lame duck" session. For example, Congress will also need to stop the Obamacare bailout. The law, which even Bill Clinton calls [...]