GOP senator: Don't link Planned Parenthood to ObamaCare repeal

[riversedge]

Source: The Hill


By Jordain Carney - 01/05/17 03:38 PM EST

Moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) is signaling she doesn't want congressional efforts to repeal ObamaCare tied to ending federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
"Obviously I'm not happy to hear that the Speaker wants to include defunding of Planned Parenthood, an extremely controversial issue, in the package," Collins told reporters on Thursday.

But she stopped short of saying the provision, if included, would force her to vote against the measure, pledging that she would "wait and see what happens."


Republicans are using reconciliation, a budget tactic that will require only 50 Senate votes instead of 60, to repeal ObamaCare. They have a 52-seat majority; no Democrat has said they will vote for repeal.

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) told reporters earlier Thursday that cutting off federal funding for the women's health organization would be included in the House's repeal measure.

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Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/312907-gop-senator-dont-link-planned-parenthood-to-obamacare-repeal

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In the article collins said there was some other republicans who did not want the defending in the Reconciliation bill. Bet they just vote for it anyway.

[karynnj]

1. Given that the CBO said that the repeal raises the debt, how can they use reconciliation

I thought that was a criteria.

[LisaM]

2. She could really help out by going independent.

I frankly don't understand why she doesn't. I don't think it would hurt her politically. She sees what the Tea Party has dragged in, and it's not something that's unheard of in New England.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. Because she's full of shit? She always panders to sound like less of a psycho than the rest of her

lunatic party. But in the end she has no nads to go against them. No matter how many people they hurt.

[LisaM]

5. I know. She never has the guts in the end.

Or maybe her moderate stance on a few things leads people like us to believe that she's not hardcore GOP on others.

[riversedge]

4. I am going to give her office a call and hope others do also.

[hibbing]

6. "Moderate Republican"

Just means that the person is not totally batshit crazy like the vast majority of them.


Peace

[tenorly]

7. And it usually also means trying to have it both ways.

Collins is a good example of this duplicitousness at work. When Obamacare was close to passage, you might recall, Collins kept bating-and-switching the Democratic leadership, promising her vote in exchange for "concessions."

Before the Dems knew what hit them, they had lost the public option, the restoration of Medicare's price negotiation power, and a number of other desperately needed reforms that might have otherwise passed - but didn't, all in the misplaced hope the Maine stutterer would grace the ACA with her vote.

Suckers.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

8. Fuck this fucking coward. I wonder how she can even walk

with all the fence straddling she does.

[Erasto]

9. Typical

She'll wait to see which side wins and join that side. I don't know how President Obama could even work with people like her.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. ...

[riversedge]

12. eeks. will be hard to get that image out of my brain!!

[riversedge]

11. This and other #'s are working now. DC office 202-225-3031 Office of the Speaker 202-225-0600 Tell h

I called the 202 number and left a message just a bit ago


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