By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Incoming House Republicans have announced that they will take up a vote to repeal ObamaCare next Wednesday, and will then turn their sights on legislation that will strip the unpopular health care reform bill of all taxpayer funding of abortion.
LifeNews is reporting that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has already announced that a vote to repeal ObamaCare will take place on January 12.
“Obamacare is a job killer for businesses small and large, and the top priority for House Republicans is going to be to cut spending and grow the economy and jobs,” Cantor spokesman Brad Dayspring said in a statement. “Further, ObamaCare failed to lower costs as the president promised that it would and does not allow people to keep the care they currently have if they like it. That is why the House will repeal it next week.”
The repeal is not expected to survive in the Senate, and even if it did, it would be vetoed by the president. However, Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan, incoming chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, told Fox News Sunday he believes repeal has a fighting chance.
“We have 242 Republicans,” he said. “There will be a significant number of Democrats, I think, that will join us. You will remember when that vote passed in the House last March, it only passed by seven votes.”
Regardless of the outcome, after the repeal bill passes in the House, which it is fully expected to do, Upton said Republicans would get to work on dismantling ObamaCare piece by piece. Some of this legislation will implement a ban on any taxpayer funding of abortions under the law and will protect the conscience rights of medical professionals who don’t want to participate in abortions.
“We are going to take up early the Pitts-Stupak language ‘no funds shall be spent on abortion’ as a separate bill early on. We will look at these individual pieces to see if we can’t have the thing crumble,” he said.
The process will begin as soon as tomorrow when the new Congress is sworn in. Rep. Upton said the goal is to vote on repeal of ObamaCare before the president’s state of the union address which will take place later this month.
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