TPM: House Health Care Vote Likely at 6PM Saturday

[flpoljunkie]

House Health Care Vote Likely At 6 p.m. Saturday
Rachel Slajda
November 4, 2009

The House will likely vote on its health care reform bill at 6 p.m. Saturday, although the time is not yet official.

The Rules Committee, which will meet at 2 p.m. Friday to prepare the bill for debate, is not expected to allow amendments.

The committee has, however, been working to secure votes for the bill by adjusting the language. Chairwoman Louise Slaughter told CQ Politics that she'd added anti-abortion language put forward by Rep. Brad Ellsworth (D-IN).

The language would explicitly prohibit federal funds from paying for abortion (something that's already illegal) and would guarantee consumers access to "pro-life" insurance plans that don't cover abortion.

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/house-health-care-vote-likely-at-6-pm-saturday.php?ref=fpa

[Dr Robert]

1. Excellent!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. Great!!!

Now, the Senate needs to get itself in gear and pass something so that the whole thing can go to committee to hammer out a final draft. I'm so glad that Reid cares so much about having a thorough debate and "transparency", especially right now- when it doesn't involve such life-altering things such as giving POTUS a "blank check" to illegally invade/occupy a sovereign country on pretenses that should've been laughable on their face or giving a bunch of CEO "talents" a bailout because, through their malfeasance, incompetence, and/or negligence, they caused an economic meltdown that almost plunged us into another great depression.
:sarcasm:

But hey, what's a few more weeks or months to begin trying to help more people obtain affordable health insurance coverage, right???? I mean, it's not like some people don't desperately need it, right?
:eyes: :shrug: :mad: :argh:

[flpoljunkie]

3. The 'blank check' was the Defense appropriations bill--to the tune of $680B for one year.

And, that was considered an improvement because it included the billions for the occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. Is that this year's bill?

:shrug:

I have an issue with how much we spend on "defense" (which really should be properly referred to as "offense") but we wouldn't need to worry about spending so much on Iraq if Bush hadn't plopped us there and left us there in the first place. It's good to know that President Obama is winding down our involvement there. It's a huge improvement over John "100 years in Iraq!" McCain. I support our involvement in Afghanistan but agree that we either need some kind of new strategy or we should leave ASAP.

[flpoljunkie]

6. Yes, just recently passed and signed into law.

[Clio the Leo]

5. even though I'll have to miss it.......

.... I'm glad a lot of the debate will happen on Saturday when more Americans are home to see it. ('cause you KNOW folks are gonna sit around and watch CSPAN on a Sat afternoon!!! ha ha, well, I can hope cant i?)

[flpoljunkie]

7. It depends on what games are on. My team plays at night.