House Farm Bill Defeated | Obamacare On Target For A Train Wreck | Obama Bores Foreign Audiences
Today In Washington, D.C.
President Obama is traveling abroad and is both boring European audiences everywhere. And, he even managed to insult the majority of Irish Catholics and the Irish people in general. And, he even does this while reading his teleprompter. He is definitely not being received as the "enlightened one" as in the past and has not raised the hopes of his audiences.
Russian President Vladimir Putin didn't offer many smiles this time toward President Obama. This was definitely not a Reagan-Gorbachev moment. It is also obvious that the foreign press has no great need to whitewash what they see concerning the conditions in America under Mr. Obama's leadership.
He may do better next week when he reaches the African continent - the home of his deceased father and home of the majority of his extended living relatives. He plans to do some vacationing! Wonder if the rest of America wishes they could have vacationed on the dollars that this trip by the Obamas is costing the American Taxpayers. Maybe this was one trip a wise person would have "sequestered."
The Senate reconvened and resumed consideration of S. 744, the immigration reform bill.
Votes on amendments to the bill are likely. Yesterday, the Senate voted 93-4 to confirm Michael Froman as United States Trade Representative.
Also yesterday, the Senate voted 61-37 to table (i.e. reject, meaning a ‘no’ was a vote for the amendment) an amendment to S. 744 offered by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), which would have required Congress to annually approve the Department of Homeland Security’s progress in securing the southern border for five years before illegal immigrants were granted provisional status. Also rejected, by a vote of 39-59, was an amendment from Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) which would have required congressional approval of DHS’ border security strategies after the secretary implemented them. The Senate agreed to an amendment offered by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) which caps border security contractors’ compensation by a vote of 72-26. In addition, the Senate agreed to an amendment offered by Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) that would add a representative from Nevada to a border security commission by a vote of 89-9.
The House reconvened and returned to the House Farm bill (H.R. 1947) — "To provide for the reform and continuation of agricultural and other programs of the Department of Agriculture through fiscal year 2018, and for other purposes." After votes on numerous over the last two days, at 1:55 PM, the bloated $939 Bollion House Farm bill failed to pass by a vote of 195-234. Sixty-one House Republicans stood on principle with 172 Democrats against this wasteful legislation. Unfortunately many of the Democrat who voted no preferred even more spending. The House recessed until Monday, June 24th, at 11:00 a.m.
The Food Stamp program in the Farm bill accounted for an abominable $750 Billion or almost 80% of the total. The Food Stamp program needs to be separated from the agricultural portion of the bill. Farm programs with some minor adjustments may indeed need a portion of the $189 Billion which should have been the true cost of a Farm Bill. And, the American taxpayers deserve major reform in the Food Stamp program which is also bloated by Government overheads and administrative costs.
Warning, the Senate passed Farm Bill is still lurking around Congress. House leadership will now try to twist some arms to gather more votes for passage of the House Farm bill. If they succeed, then the bill will go to conference with the Democrat-controlled Senate. Chris Chocola, President of the Club for Growth calls this "a recipe for a backroom deal that will only lead to bigger government."
Americans for Limited Government vice president of public policy Rick Manning today praised the failure of of the House farm bill:
"The failure of the farm bill is a boon to taxpayers, who were going to be on the hook for $750 billion for food stamps over the next decade. Increases in eligibility for the food stamps program in recent years has, combined with the current recession and high unemployment, led to an explosion of program participation. Now, more than 47 million Americans are on food stamps, yet the program has zero transparency, with neither taxpayers nor Congress having any idea what food stamps are even spent on.
"This should be a signal to Congress to at least separate the so-called farm bill in two. Farm subsidies and food stamps should each be considered on their merits. Both programs are in need of considerable reform. It is time for Congress to begin considering what is in the best interests of taxpayers instead of constantly doling out corporate subsidies and expanding welfare without question.
This week has produced story after story supporting the warning by democrats of an impending "Train Wreck" in the implementation of Obamacare.
Today, the AP reports, “Getting face time with the family doctor could soon become even harder. A shortage of primary care physicians in some parts of the country is expected to worsen as millions of newly insured Americans gain coverage under the federal health care law next year. Doctors could face a backlog, and patients could find it difficult to get quick appointments. . . . Nearly one in five Americans already lives in a region designated as having a shortage of primary care physicians, and the number of doctors entering the field isn’t expected keep pace with demand. About a quarter million primary care doctors work in America now, and the Association of American Medical Colleges projects the shortage will reach almost 30,000 in two years and will grow to about 66,000 in little more than a decade. . . . [M]any experts say the gap between doctors and those gaining care under the health reforms in many parts of the country will not close quickly. Access to care could get worse for some people before it gets better, said Dr. Andrew Morris-Singer, president and co-founder of Primary Care Progress, a nonprofit in Cambridge, Mass. ‘If you don’t have a primary care provider,’ he said, ‘you should find one soon.’”
And in Chattanooga, Tennessee, WDEF-TV reports, “The main components of the Affordable Care Act take effect in less than a year and as the day gets closer, many local business owners tell WDEF they feel anxious about how employee health insurance will affect their business. . . . ‘Some employers are probably going to have some financial challenges and things of that nature so it’s going to be a wait and see from the standpoint all of the provisions of the act,’ said [Chattanooga Urban League president Warren] Logan when asked if the law will hurt small businesses. WDEF asked many Facebook followers if they think the Affordable Health Care Act will hurt small business or not have any affect at all. An overwhelming majority of the responses basically said it would hurt.”
But apparently none of this is going to prevent the Obama administration and its supporters from spending millions to once again attempt to sell Obamacare to a skeptical public. Time’s Zeke Miller writes, “Though Barack Obama has competed in his last election, he has one more campaign ahead of him. This fall, Obamacare will go into full effect . . . . But it could still fail. To prevent that, Obama-land is going on offense. Organizing for Action, the grassroots group spun out of the President’s campaign, has made selling the already-passed bill a top priority with its first television ad. Enroll America, a nonprofit coalition of community groups and insurers that has been promoted by the White House and is staffed by Obama campaign alumni, launched its ‘Get Covered America’ campaign to educate uninsured Americans about the exchanges. At the White House, health care implementation has become an obsession. Chief of Staff Denis McDonough spends two hours a day on Obamacare implementation, staffers said, and senior aides like Simas and Tara McGuinness, who joined the White House in April as a senior communications adviser, work on the issue nearly full-time. Hardly a week goes by without Obama finding some way to plug the effort as well. The reason: the law is increasingly unpopular. According to an NBC News–Wall Street Journal poll released earlier this month, 49% of Americans now believe the law is a bad idea, the highest percentage recorded, with only 37% saying it is a good thing. Many states have already opted out of key provisions to expand Medicaid. In Washington, Republicans continue to lay siege to the law; they have voted to repeal it 37 times in the U.S. House. That unpopularity threatens one of the law’s most ambitious goals—establishing health care exchanges allowing uninsured Americans to purchase affordable coverage. The exchanges need roughly 2.7 million healthy 18-t0-35-year-olds to sign up to be solvent. . . . If too few choose to enroll because they don’t know about the law, don’t like it, or feel they don’t need insurance, the exchanges will fail. And so will the law.”
Of course, it doesn’t take just the exchanges failing to make the law a failure. Obamacare has failed to live up to the promises Democrats made about it from the very beginning.
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President Obama is traveling abroad and is both boring European audiences everywhere. And, he even managed to insult the majority of Irish Catholics and the Irish people in general. And, he even does this while reading his teleprompter. He is definitely not being received as the "enlightened one" as in the past and has not raised the hopes of his audiences.
Russian President Vladimir Putin didn't offer many smiles this time toward President Obama. This was definitely not a Reagan-Gorbachev moment. It is also obvious that the foreign press has no great need to whitewash what they see concerning the conditions in America under Mr. Obama's leadership.
He may do better next week when he reaches the African continent - the home of his deceased father and home of the majority of his extended living relatives. He plans to do some vacationing! Wonder if the rest of America wishes they could have vacationed on the dollars that this trip by the Obamas is costing the American Taxpayers. Maybe this was one trip a wise person would have "sequestered."
The Senate reconvened and resumed consideration of S. 744, the immigration reform bill.
Votes on amendments to the bill are likely. Yesterday, the Senate voted 93-4 to confirm Michael Froman as United States Trade Representative.
Also yesterday, the Senate voted 61-37 to table (i.e. reject, meaning a ‘no’ was a vote for the amendment) an amendment to S. 744 offered by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), which would have required Congress to annually approve the Department of Homeland Security’s progress in securing the southern border for five years before illegal immigrants were granted provisional status. Also rejected, by a vote of 39-59, was an amendment from Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) which would have required congressional approval of DHS’ border security strategies after the secretary implemented them. The Senate agreed to an amendment offered by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) which caps border security contractors’ compensation by a vote of 72-26. In addition, the Senate agreed to an amendment offered by Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) that would add a representative from Nevada to a border security commission by a vote of 89-9.
The House reconvened and returned to the House Farm bill (H.R. 1947) — "To provide for the reform and continuation of agricultural and other programs of the Department of Agriculture through fiscal year 2018, and for other purposes." After votes on numerous over the last two days, at 1:55 PM, the bloated $939 Bollion House Farm bill failed to pass by a vote of 195-234. Sixty-one House Republicans stood on principle with 172 Democrats against this wasteful legislation. Unfortunately many of the Democrat who voted no preferred even more spending. The House recessed until Monday, June 24th, at 11:00 a.m.
The Food Stamp program in the Farm bill accounted for an abominable $750 Billion or almost 80% of the total. The Food Stamp program needs to be separated from the agricultural portion of the bill. Farm programs with some minor adjustments may indeed need a portion of the $189 Billion which should have been the true cost of a Farm Bill. And, the American taxpayers deserve major reform in the Food Stamp program which is also bloated by Government overheads and administrative costs.
Warning, the Senate passed Farm Bill is still lurking around Congress. House leadership will now try to twist some arms to gather more votes for passage of the House Farm bill. If they succeed, then the bill will go to conference with the Democrat-controlled Senate. Chris Chocola, President of the Club for Growth calls this "a recipe for a backroom deal that will only lead to bigger government."
Americans for Limited Government vice president of public policy Rick Manning today praised the failure of of the House farm bill:
"This should be a signal to Congress to at least separate the so-called farm bill in two. Farm subsidies and food stamps should each be considered on their merits. Both programs are in need of considerable reform. It is time for Congress to begin considering what is in the best interests of taxpayers instead of constantly doling out corporate subsidies and expanding welfare without question.
This week has produced story after story supporting the warning by democrats of an impending "Train Wreck" in the implementation of Obamacare.
Today, the AP reports, “Getting face time with the family doctor could soon become even harder. A shortage of primary care physicians in some parts of the country is expected to worsen as millions of newly insured Americans gain coverage under the federal health care law next year. Doctors could face a backlog, and patients could find it difficult to get quick appointments. . . . Nearly one in five Americans already lives in a region designated as having a shortage of primary care physicians, and the number of doctors entering the field isn’t expected keep pace with demand. About a quarter million primary care doctors work in America now, and the Association of American Medical Colleges projects the shortage will reach almost 30,000 in two years and will grow to about 66,000 in little more than a decade. . . . [M]any experts say the gap between doctors and those gaining care under the health reforms in many parts of the country will not close quickly. Access to care could get worse for some people before it gets better, said Dr. Andrew Morris-Singer, president and co-founder of Primary Care Progress, a nonprofit in Cambridge, Mass. ‘If you don’t have a primary care provider,’ he said, ‘you should find one soon.’”
And in Chattanooga, Tennessee, WDEF-TV reports, “The main components of the Affordable Care Act take effect in less than a year and as the day gets closer, many local business owners tell WDEF they feel anxious about how employee health insurance will affect their business. . . . ‘Some employers are probably going to have some financial challenges and things of that nature so it’s going to be a wait and see from the standpoint all of the provisions of the act,’ said [Chattanooga Urban League president Warren] Logan when asked if the law will hurt small businesses. WDEF asked many Facebook followers if they think the Affordable Health Care Act will hurt small business or not have any affect at all. An overwhelming majority of the responses basically said it would hurt.”
But apparently none of this is going to prevent the Obama administration and its supporters from spending millions to once again attempt to sell Obamacare to a skeptical public. Time’s Zeke Miller writes, “Though Barack Obama has competed in his last election, he has one more campaign ahead of him. This fall, Obamacare will go into full effect . . . . But it could still fail. To prevent that, Obama-land is going on offense. Organizing for Action, the grassroots group spun out of the President’s campaign, has made selling the already-passed bill a top priority with its first television ad. Enroll America, a nonprofit coalition of community groups and insurers that has been promoted by the White House and is staffed by Obama campaign alumni, launched its ‘Get Covered America’ campaign to educate uninsured Americans about the exchanges. At the White House, health care implementation has become an obsession. Chief of Staff Denis McDonough spends two hours a day on Obamacare implementation, staffers said, and senior aides like Simas and Tara McGuinness, who joined the White House in April as a senior communications adviser, work on the issue nearly full-time. Hardly a week goes by without Obama finding some way to plug the effort as well. The reason: the law is increasingly unpopular. According to an NBC News–Wall Street Journal poll released earlier this month, 49% of Americans now believe the law is a bad idea, the highest percentage recorded, with only 37% saying it is a good thing. Many states have already opted out of key provisions to expand Medicaid. In Washington, Republicans continue to lay siege to the law; they have voted to repeal it 37 times in the U.S. House. That unpopularity threatens one of the law’s most ambitious goals—establishing health care exchanges allowing uninsured Americans to purchase affordable coverage. The exchanges need roughly 2.7 million healthy 18-t0-35-year-olds to sign up to be solvent. . . . If too few choose to enroll because they don’t know about the law, don’t like it, or feel they don’t need insurance, the exchanges will fail. And so will the law.”
Of course, it doesn’t take just the exchanges failing to make the law a failure. Obamacare has failed to live up to the promises Democrats made about it from the very beginning.
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