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FREEDOM!

They can also repeat all laws protyecting people, the EPA, civil righst laws, etc., but the Senate won't pass their neo-Confederate bullshit and the President won't sign it.  This is just a right wing mastabatory fantasy playing out, like Issa's circle jerk yesterday.  

that having the House waste time on a meaningless bill is the least harmful thing they could be doing.

Once Obama-care gets rolling, it will mean the end of the GOP.

So, what option do they have except to thwart OC at every turn.

If the GOPer's were really the men, and women, that they claim to be, they would give OC a chance and then deride it if it turns out to be a bad idea.

the good news is you can use the http://www.medicare.gov/... site to compare hospitals (also click patient surveys and "view more data").

The bad news is you get to compare hospitals.  What does it mean when less than 3/4 of the patients would recommend that hospital? Or that 1 in 12 say to avoid it altogether?  California as a whole ranks below the national average, which to me means C- or D, and most hospitals around me rank below the California average, including where I have insurance at now.  I was already planning on changing it :)

Some enterprising journalist should do a running tally of how much taxpayers' money the House 'pubs are wasting with symbolic votes; extended vacations; pointless, political sideshow hearings, etc.

the new members have been clamoring for it. Since a month ago.

At a Wednesday panel organized by the Heritage Foundation, conservative Republicans lamented that it’s been too long since they had the opportunity to vote to wipe out the Affordable Care Act in its entirety — and that the newest members haven’t had the chance yet.

Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) urged leadership to hold a repeal vote so freshman members can serve up the same anti-Obamacare talking points for their conservative constituents that more senior Republicans enjoy.

“If you’re a freshman — the guys who’ve been up here the last year, we can go home and say listen, we voted 36 different times to repeal or replace Obamacare. Tell me what the new guys are supposed to say,” he said. “We haven’t had a repeal or replace vote this year.”

“We have not had a chance as freshmen to do that,” said first-term Rep. Trey Radel (R-FL). “Even if it’s just symbolic — and even if we understand that process-wise we are not going to be able to say, okay we want repeal, it’s done, and it’s over. But this is the issue that so many people around the country who love the Republican Party are frustrated with.”

They have also named several post offices.  Then quickly drafted a bill to close them.  

on, say, the new head for the EPA?  Doesn't that matter, you GOPers.....  

I don't know what the House GOP people think they actually do to earn their pay.  Is 'stalling' in the job description?

Could we hold a vote on slavery? More mustard gas and mules for the army? Most of these freshmen reps have not had the chance to vote on these things.

law passed in the last 300 years they don't like, that sounds like a productive use of time

and yet that is what a lot of their dingbat constituents think is top priority because socialism bad liberty freedom something something.

Sorry guy. You buy into the GOP meme that they don't like to spend [government] money.  That is not true.  They don't want to spend it on anyone but themselves.  They all get government subsidized health insurance.  They all get it through their employer and get huge, huge subsidies via the tax code.  It's just when we want to cover others that they get all riled up.  Just look at the airport delay sequestor.  They wanted their airplanes.  Screw everyone else like starving elderly or dying children.  Not one suggested privitization of airport Tisa or controllers to be paid by the flying public.  Why? Because it is them.  They gotta get their subsidies.
We really need a new word for hypocrite.  One suggestion: GOP fiscal hawk.  BTW the are also for saving traditional marriage, yet they overwhelmingly voted for Mark Sanford who single handedly revoked the commandment that thou shalt not commit adultery.  He did not have a consentual open marriage. Just ask his ex wife!

so that first-termers can say when they run for reelection "I voted against Obamacare". That really says something, I think.

theatre. Because Repubs dont want to 'govern'. Heck, most of them are too lazy and stupid to do the real work of legislating if they did have interest. For them the House and Senate are just way stations on the road to a highly paid TV gig or perch at a "think tank' or, for most of them, as a lobbyist for Despoil The World Inc.

“We’ve got 70 new members who have not had an opportunity to vote on the president’s health care law,” Boehner said. “Frankly they’ve been asking for an opportunity to vote on it.”

Doesn't care about wasting tax payer money.  Their election of Mark Sanford proves that.

an opportunity to vote on Medicare and Social Security either so he should hold repeal votes on those too.

before brain.  By his "logic", every times we have a new bunch of senators or reps in government, they should be allowed to re-vote on settled law if they ask to. That'll by extension take us backward in history until we are re-voting on whether or not to go after those Whiskey Rebellion people in the hills for the taxes to pay off the Revolutionary War debt.

Where oh where is the saavy and brave reporter who makes or takes an opportunity to call him on statements like this?  

They know it is not going to pass but the vote might help them get reelected and it is a easy job and great pay.  I see no end to this.  More house members will in the future move to the Senate and continue blocking everything.  Government is broken.

Explain its benefits and list the benefits that would be lost if the ACA is repealed.

shouldn't the cost be taken from their campaign funds?

...with HR 676.

Come on, Republicans! Really stick it to the President! Repeal ObamaCare and pass Medicare For All.

will change until the filibuster is outlawed or changed.  Nothing.  Zero.  Zilch.  Do you morons get it yet ?  The Rethugs count on you being too f---ing stupid to figure this out.  They "negotiate" only to water down a bill and then they vote against it anyway.  If Democrats had even a little bit of a brain, they could recognize this pattern.  Remove Harry Reid.  He refuses to allow a vote on filibuster reform.

so that they can just vote on it briefly every week, without debate (or allowing everybody to speak once and only once per year)?

We can reduce the time of the process to that of a roll-call vote.  indeed, the special order can provide for a "standing" vote so that the time for the roll-call can be reduced signfiicantly.  Since the Senate will never take it up, even for a roll-call there are no consequences.

It might save millions.

(per impossible) I could expect to resurrect any old law I wanted to cast a vote about?