Sunday, March 13, 2011

Reps. Michele Bachmann and Steve King send open letter to House Republican leadership on urgent need to defund ObamaCare immediately

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3/11/11, "Letter to leadership to defund ObamaCare immediately," Rep. Michele Bachmann, posted on RedState.com

"Last night my colleague Rep. Steve King (IA-05) and I drafted a letter to Speaker Boehner, Majority Leader Cantor and Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers urging them to include language to defund ObamaCare and rescind

Next Wednesday the House will consider another Continuing Resolution. Including language to defund ObamaCare is our opportunity to

  • stop the flow of funds to ObamaCare once and for all.

Our suggested language is, “Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the funds made available by this or any previous Act with respect to any fiscal year may be used to carry out the provisions of Public Law 111-148, Public Law 111-152,

  • or any amendment made by either such Public Law.”

All members of Congress are encouraged to contact my office to join us in the effort to prevent taxpayers’ money from going to the implementation

  • of this unconstitutional program.

The letter reads as follows:

Dear Speaker Boehner, Leader Cantor, and Chairman Rogers,

We very much appreciate your leadership in bringing H.R. 2 to the floor, which resulted in a unanimous Republican vote to repeal ObamaCare. This was an essential step in achieving our universal Republican goal to bring about the final, 100 percent repeal of this law. No strategy to accomplish this goal could succeed

  • without this House vote.

From the moment legislation to repeal ObamaCare was first introduced, it has been widely discussed that a successful repeal strategy would center on first winning a Republican majority in the House,

  • then holding a clean, up or down vote on repeal, and then

  • prohibiting funding for the implementation or enforcement of ObamaCare.

We must ensure that this strategy remains on track and on schedule.

The success of our effort to shut off funding for ObamaCare will hinge on the leverage points of this first session of the 112th Congress -

  • namely the CR, which expires on March 18th,

and the vote on raising the debt ceiling. We recognize the work to defund ObamaCare began with the inclusion of language in H.R. 1 to restrict annual appropriations from being used to implement the law. However, we also recognize that even this language, if enacted, leaves on the table $105.5 billion in automatically appropriated funds for the law’s implementation.

  • We cannot successfully defund ObamaCare without

  • shutting off these automatically appropriated funds.

While some have argued that our defunding efforts in the CR should be limited only to those annual funds actually provided by the CR, we disagree. If we do not stand our ground on the CR, leverage it as the “must pass bill” that it is, and use it to stop the $105.5 billion in automatically appropriated funds, ObamaCare will be implemented on our watch. We will also have conceded a significant amount of ground on this issue and will find it difficult, if not impossible, to regain the strategic advantage in future legislative vehicles.

Consequently, we ask that the following language, or more effective language, be added to the FY11 CR to cut off both the annual and automatic appropriations for ObamaCare’s implementation: “Notwithstanding any other provision of law,

  • none of the funds made available by this or any previous Act with respect to any fiscal year may be used to carry out the provisions of Public Law 111-148,

  • Public Law 111-152, or any amendment made by either such Public Law.”

It is essential that the above language be included in the CR. We, the undersigned, will not vote in support of a continuing resolution

Sincerely,

Steve King Michele Bachmann"

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Commenter to above at RedState:

"I cannot express my overflowing pride...

IronDioPriest Friday, March 11th at 2:23PM EST (link)

… at having Michele Bachmann as my congresswoman.

Who would have ever imagined that a United States in need of “men with chests” would find the needed testicular fortitude in

  • brave, formidable women like Ms. Bachmann.

You have my undying support and loyalty…. as long as you keep doing the right things, that is!
;^)."...

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3/9/11, "The gonads on our team happen to be wearing skirts."...Rush Limbaugh, (Referencing Palin and Bachmann as opposed to the various male hairdos, excepting Rep. Steve King.)
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1/3/11, "John Boehner's Michele Bachmann problem," Slate, Noreen Malone
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"Bachmann spent five years as a
  • federal tax litigation attorney,
  • working on hundreds of civil and criminal cases. "...

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