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Invoke Budget Reconciliation Rule to ram “Health Care Reform” Through Both Chambers.

Let’s hear it for Democratic Bi-partisanship and open government.

BREAKING: Dems Go Nuclear on Obamacare
by Connie Hair
Human Events.com

House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) held a hearing this morning to certify that H.R. 3200—the main House Obamacare bill which was the subject of all the town hall rage in August—has met all requirements to pass as a “budget reconciliation” measure.

Under reconciliation, the bill can be passed by a simple majority vote in the Senate—just 51 votes—and will be given preferential treatment on the House floor as well. The Dems have apparently invoked the “nuclear option” to shut out Republicans and ensure the bill is passed before the end of the year.

The bill certified for “reconciliation” is the Ways & Means version of H.R. 3200 that was passed out of committee before the August break, and before it was read aloud at town hall meetings across the country and blasted by voters across the country.

Time, and past time, for the Republicans or at least one brave Representative and Senator to reply with the Neutron Bomb of Congressional Proceedure: No Unanimous Consent.  Force this bill, and every bill, to be read in it’s entirety when it comes to the floor for any reason.

Here are just a few reasons to do so:

It contains all of the horrors previously exposed:  federal funding of abortion, coverage for illegal aliens, comparative effectiveness, healthcare rationing, deep cuts to Medicare.  Everything the American people overwhelmingly reject.
No amendments were allowed at the hearing and no debate.  Rangel told Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), the ranking Republican on the committee, that he would not have preferred to do it this way, but leadership—i.e., Speaker Pelosi—forced his hand.

We’re about to find our what our Congress is made of.

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