| Sequester Replacement Reconciliation Act Of 2012 |
May 16, 2012 |
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Aaron Schock, R-IL
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"Section 204 of H.R. 5652 reversed two Medicaid provisions affecting the U.S. territories—increases in both the federal match rate and the cap on federal Medicaid spending—created in Obamacare. While I fully support a repeal of Obamacare, I also understand the rationale for these provisions addressed a disparity in the treatment of U.S. territories under Medicaid going back decades. Prior to the changes, Puerto Rico paid 80 percent of its share of Medicaid, even though it has a population of almost 4 million and a poverty level percentage similar to the state of Mississippi. Unlike the 50 states, where no U.S. state pays more than 50 percent of its share, the territories operate under a different reimbursement formula. The adjustment in the Medicaid payments to territories helped to close this gap."
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| New Irs Agents |
April 18, 2012 |
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Joe Wilson, R-SC
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"Mr. Speaker, last week, the President announced plans to divert $500 million to the IRS for the purpose of hiring new IRS agents to promote the President’s health care government takeover bill. This fact reveals that ObamaCare is not a bill designed to improve the quality of health care but instead raises taxes and creates more burdens for individuals and small businesses, destroying jobs. House Republicans remain committed to fighting for the total repeal of ObamaCare, then to promote commonsense free market health reforms preserving the doctor-patient relationship."
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| Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act |
March 21, 2012 |
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Orrin Hatch, R-UT
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"Well, as we all know, the American people had something else in mind. They reminded Congress and the President that in this country the people are sovereign. They stood up as free men and women rejecting Obamacare before it became law and refused to embrace it afterwards. And as their understanding of the law has deepened, they have remained constant in their commitment to full repeal. According to a Rasmussen poll this week, over half of Americans support the full repeal of Obamacare."
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| The Affordable Care Act: A Rebuttal |
March 21, 2012 |
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Phil Gingrey, R-GA
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"And they don’t want national health care. That’s why we voted in this body, H.R. 2, to repeal ObamaCare. And that repeal passed in the House of Representatives. We finally had a vote in the Senate. We couldn’t get them to pass a budget. They haven’t done that in 3 years. But after about a year and a half, we finally got them to vote on repeal of ObamaCare. The Democratic majority rejected that."
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| Addressing The Issues Of Our Day |
February 14, 2012 |
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Steve King, R-IA
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"Why? I have a little trouble figuring out why the Republicans were anxious to make a deal, Mr. Speaker, because we had 87 new freshmen waiting in the wings. The legitimate voices of the American people, the shock troops that they sent here, they sent them here for fiscal responsibility. Every single one of them ran on the 100 percent repeal of ObamaCare. They ran on fiscal responsibility. They ran on a balanced budget. And $212 billion went out the window with the lame duck deal without hardly any debate, $212 billion, most of it to extend unemployment benefits for 99 weeks, but some of it for refundable tax credits. That did not include the $130 billion created by the suspension of 2 percent of the contribution rate into the Social Security trust fund, that hole that was created"
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