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As the triumphant Democratic Party is prepared for President Obama to sign their historic health care bill in a large ceremonial event at the White House, the Republican Party started a movement right after the legislation was passed to rescind the bill and to utilize it as a political deterrent in the highly contested upcoming midterm elections.
“We will not allow this to stand,” Representative Michele Bachmann, Republican of Minnesota, assured soon after the House reconvened, on this intense bitter partisan vote.
Democratic Party heads declared the passage of the bill as a massive accomplishment for the healthcare of Americans.
“Last night, we made history,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared as she was ready to sign the new healthcare legislation and have it sent directly to the White House. “We honored the vows of our founders who in the Declaration of Independence talked about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We believe the legislation that we have gives all people in our country the liberty to have healthier lives.”
The Democratic Party said they would put the spotlight on clarifying the exact details of the bill to their constituents and on emphasizing some instant aid for those needing healthcare. They also requested that the Republicans lay off their negative assaults on the healthcare legislation now that it has passed.
“It is time to chill out, Republicans,” Representative Bob Filner, Democrat of California was quoted as saying. “Let this bill work. Let our constituents finally get health care.”
With no signs of the Republicans easing up, the Senate Democrats said they would take up a budget reconciliation containing the absolute last amendments to the health care legislation right after Mr. Obama signs the key bill on Tuesday.
The Republicans have not yet waived the white flag to give up, leading Senate Republicans said they would use every tactic possible to derail the reconciliation bill, or at the very least wipe out the main provisions of the bill. The main concern of the republicans is a series of key components they want changed to a propositioned tax on high-cost employer-sponsored insurance policies.
As the White House negotiated variations to the tax with the heads of organized labor, who were nervous that it would affect too many middle-class workers who have hearty backed benefits plans. The House Democrats didn’t approve of the tax either, and if Senate Republicans are successful in obstructing the new variations, it could generate a massive political topic that Mr. Obama will have to deal with.
The projected amendments to the tax law were amongst the hot topics when the Republicans and Democrats met on Monday afternoon with the Senate parliamentarian, who will make a ruling on the technical disputes the Republicans are planning to bring up at the debate this week.
The leaders of the Senate Democratic Party went to the White House on Monday as well to discuss the upcoming plan for the floor conflict over the healthcare reconciliation bill.
Not backing off on there verbal assaults, Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnel of Kentucky, rapidly embraced a fresh symbolic approach on Monday, exposing the variations wanted by the Democratic Party as changes that would portray the health care laws as inferior, not in better shape after the revisions as suggested.
“Democrat leaders now want us to take the bill that passed the Senate in December and that the House voted on last night and make the tax hikes even higher, the Medicare cuts even deeper,” Mr. McConnell stated in a speech on the floor. “They want us to endorse a raft of new sweetheart deals that were struck behind closed doors last week so this thing could limp over the finish line last night.”
It was ambiguous that the main point of the dispute would stay put, with many of the revisions in the healthcare reconciliation measure are calculated to tweak details of the bill that the Republicans themselves had criticized, for example the so-called Cornhusker kickback that would be an incentive to provide additional Medicaid funds for the state of Nebraska.
All around the United States, response to the Healthcare bill’s passage was demonstrative, and in a few instances the cases became violent. Gabrielle Giffords, a Democrat Representative of Arizona, stated that her Tucson office was vandalized (A glass door was shattered, she said ) after her vote in favor of the healthcare bill.
This past weekend protesters outside the Capitol exposed a handful of Democratic lawmakers with racial slurs and other colorful epithets that have nothing to do with the healthcare bill, Randy Neugebauer, a conservative Republican Representative from Texas, publicized on Monday that he was the Republican lawmaker who screamed “baby killer” on floor of the House while still in session as Representative Bart Stupak, Democrat of Michigan, discussed abortion-related stipulations in the health care bill legislation.
In a short press release this a.m., Mr. Neugebauer, a three-term member of the House from Lubbock, said he got caught up in the heat of the moment and was not actually referring to Mr. Stupak himself but to the actuall bill itself.
“In the heat and emotion of the debate, I exclaimed the phrase ‘it’s a baby killer’ I was referring to the settlement attained by the Democratic Party leadership,” Mr. Neugebauer said. “I deeply regret that my actions were mistakenly interpreted as a direct reference to Congressman Stupak himself.”
All throughout the United States, Republican Party candidates jumped on the passage of the health care legislation to strengthen their attempts to seize the Democratic seats in Congress.
“Last night, Washington thumbed its nose at the American people, taking over one-sixth of our nation’s economy and adding to the mountain of debt already looming over our children’s future,” said former Republican Representative Rob Simmons of Connecticut, who has wishes to obtain the seat vacated by Senator Christopher J. Dodd, a Democrat who is soon to be retiring.
“This is not the time to give up and go home,” Mr. Simmons said. “Now is the time to fight.”
Senator Jim DeMint, a Republican from South Carolina, stated that he would propose a new bill to dismantle the health care law although the Republican minority does not have nearly enough votes needed to pass the legislation.
“There’s no fixing the government health care takeover Democrats forced through on Sunday,” Mr. DeMint said. “Unless this trillion-dollar assault on our freedoms is repealed, it will force Americans to purchase Washington-approved health plans or face stiff penalties.”
Rumbling from the American Legislative Exchange Council, an association of extremely traditional state legislators, exclaimed that it is accelerating their efforts to zone out the federal obligation for individuals to have health insurance that will take effect in 2014.
State lawmakers in 39 of the states have already filed or have a design to file new bills to wipe out the necessity to care health care insurance, the council said. Virginia lawmakers have now accepted this new legislation.
The attorney general of Florida, Bill McCollum, stated early Monday that he and the attorneys general of eight other states would soon file a new suit to remove the implementation of the new federal law. This new federal measure “violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state’s sovereignty,” said Mr. McCollum, the Republican Florida Attorney General.
Gov. C. L. Otter of Idaho, a member of the Republican Party, recently signed this new bill just last week that guides the state attorney general to now file this new suit against the federal government if current state residents are mandated to obtain health insurance under this new legislation.
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