Healthcare Repeals Filed in Congress
One of the most conservative members of the United States Congress has filed a bill to revoke what he is calling "Obamacare."
Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa) knows it will be a long and hard fight to repeal the newly enacted $938-billion healthcare overhaul pushed through Sunday by Democrats without a single Republican vote. The battle on the judicial front has already begun, with several lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the far-reaching measure. Meanwhile, King has launched another front.
"I have introduced the request for the repeal," he explains. "It's not much time to lick our wounds, in fact no time to do that, [but] come right back up and go to work and keep taking it to them."
The Iowa congressman adds that some Democrats may see the political writing on the wall and support the repeal effort. "I don't want to predict that it's likely, but we have a chance," he comments. "I have to believe that there are a bunch of them who are going to hear from their constituents and continue to hear, and when that happens, they do have a change of heart."
As for the presidential veto, King notes that "getting the votes to override a presidential veto looks to me to be about as impossible as electing Scott Brown to become United States Senator out of Massachusetts."
Brown, of course, won that election., and King is pleased that Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) has introduced a similar repeal bill in the Senate.
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