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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHouse Republicans pass Paul Ryan's Obamacare and Medicare-ending budget
House Republicans pass Paul Ryan's Obamacare and Medicare-ending budget
by Laura Clawson
House Republicans voted to pass Rep. Paul Ryan's 2014 budget Thursday morning, 219 to 205. Republican leadership had some cause to sweat going into the vote, with the threat that it would be defeated due to too many Republicans opposing it from the right. In the end, though, just 12 Republicans voted no.
"Budgets reflect the choices we make for our country," Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) said before the vote. Ryan, for his part, called the budget "a matter of trust." Let's review the choices House Republicans just voted to make, the "trust" they offered the American people:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/10/1291005/-House-Republicans-pass-Paul-Ryan-s-Obamacare-and-Medicare-ending-budget
by Laura Clawson
House Republicans voted to pass Rep. Paul Ryan's 2014 budget Thursday morning, 219 to 205. Republican leadership had some cause to sweat going into the vote, with the threat that it would be defeated due to too many Republicans opposing it from the right. In the end, though, just 12 Republicans voted no.
"Budgets reflect the choices we make for our country," Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) said before the vote. Ryan, for his part, called the budget "a matter of trust." Let's review the choices House Republicans just voted to make, the "trust" they offered the American people:
- Repeal Obamacare, which has provided more than 9 million people with coverage. House Republicans would leave the vast majority of those people out of luck, and the nation's uninsured rate rising again.
- End Medicare as we know it, turning it into a voucher program and raising the eligibility age to 67.
- Slash food stamps, kicking millions of people off of nutrition assistance.
- Gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
- Make college less affordable by cutting Pell Grants.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/10/1291005/-House-Republicans-pass-Paul-Ryan-s-Obamacare-and-Medicare-ending-budget
Roll call: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2014/roll177.xml
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House Republicans pass Paul Ryan's Obamacare and Medicare-ending budget (Original Post)
ProSense
Apr 2014
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HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)1. Even my staunch Republican husband
would be furious with a voucher for Medicare. They would lose the Senior vote on that one,
sinkingfeeling
(51,474 posts)2. Well there's our 2014 campaign stickers...
A vote for the GOP is a vote to end Medicare and food stamps.
antigop
(12,778 posts)3. so if you are 55 or younger in 2014, your Medicare eligibility age was raised to 67? nt