Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Health Care Repeal Vote Fails In Senate


Today in wasted efforts, the Health Care repeal died in Senate.

Here's more:
As expected, the Senate has rejected a Republican attempt to repeal the year-old health care law. The ultimate fate of the controversial law is expected to be determined by the Supreme Court.


But congressional Republicans emboldened by gains in last fall's elections have made a priority of trying to wipe it off the books. All 47 members of the GOP rank and file voted for repeal. There were 51 votes to leave it in place, 50 Democrats and one independent.

The House voted last month for repeal, but the action was viewed as symbolic because of opposition from Senate Democrats and a veto threat from President Barack Obama.
Silly GOP.


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4 comments:

Unknown said...

I was reading on another blog, and they called it a Dog and Pony show. I concur.

Bob said...

The GOP wasted time on this when they could have been working on something that mattered!

Anonymous said...

Yep, a waste of tax dollars.

Stan in NH said...

Remind me again where the "creating jobs is our priority" falls in the priority scale. Since they've "taken control" and established their "new regime", where has all the emphasis been? Has it been creating jobs? Nope! It's been more Progressive slamming.
How tiring they've become. I am bored at their constant "broken record" of whining about the "job-killing" Democratic agenda.
They are only focus on the social issues! In fact they are constantly bringing them up in soundbites in which they are saying they can't be interested in dealing with our social issues until they fix the unemployment problem.
Nice work if you can get it!

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