uncletonoose
1st February 2011, 11:43 AM
From NBC’s Ken Strickland and Kelly O’Donnell
GOP sources tell NBC News that Republican Leader Mitch McConnell will try to force a Senate vote on the House-passed motion to repeal the health care reform law this week.
As early as today, McConnell will offer the repeal as an amendment to an unrelated aviation bill that the Senate is slated to consider this afternoon.
McConnell has pledged to use the rules of the Senate to push for a vote on repeal, although Democrats have some procedural tools at their disposal that could be used to prevent a final vote.
While it’s unlikely that the GOP will gain the Democratic support needed to garner enough votes for the measure to pass (and Obama could veto the measure even if it did), a repeal vote would force Democrats who are up for re-election in 2012 to go on the record in support of legislation which may not be popular in their home states.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/01/5968112-senate-gop-to-try-to-force-health-care-repeal-vote-
There will be some fancy dancing among democrats if McConnell is successful in forcing a vote. Those Senators whose terms expire in 2012 and represent more centrist thinking will have large bottles of aspirin and antacids lined up on the desk. It will be a lot of fun to watch the squirming and waffling regardless of the outcome. Sleazy back door deals won't help them…time to see where they really stand.
GOP sources tell NBC News that Republican Leader Mitch McConnell will try to force a Senate vote on the House-passed motion to repeal the health care reform law this week.
As early as today, McConnell will offer the repeal as an amendment to an unrelated aviation bill that the Senate is slated to consider this afternoon.
McConnell has pledged to use the rules of the Senate to push for a vote on repeal, although Democrats have some procedural tools at their disposal that could be used to prevent a final vote.
While it’s unlikely that the GOP will gain the Democratic support needed to garner enough votes for the measure to pass (and Obama could veto the measure even if it did), a repeal vote would force Democrats who are up for re-election in 2012 to go on the record in support of legislation which may not be popular in their home states.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/01/5968112-senate-gop-to-try-to-force-health-care-repeal-vote-
There will be some fancy dancing among democrats if McConnell is successful in forcing a vote. Those Senators whose terms expire in 2012 and represent more centrist thinking will have large bottles of aspirin and antacids lined up on the desk. It will be a lot of fun to watch the squirming and waffling regardless of the outcome. Sleazy back door deals won't help them…time to see where they really stand.