112th Congress: 28 Bills to Repeal Patient Protection Act in 11 Days, But Nothing to Create Jobs

Monday January 31, 2011 08:00 am
112th Congress: 28 Bills to Repeal Patient Protection Act in 11 Days,
But
Nothing to Create Jobs

I see our elected representatives are hard at work, representing
their
constituencies. Not that those constituencies even vaguely represent
voters,
you understand. No, they would like to repeal the Patient Protection
and
Affordable Care Act 28 times. In 11 days, no less. What busy little
beavers
they are!

Here's _a list_
(http://lifeinshermanoaks.com/featured-articles/gop-obsession-with-
rep...) as of today, divided by
House and Senate.

House
H.R. 105 Dan Burton, GOP – Indiana : To repeal the Patient Protection
Act
& enact in its place incentives for people to buy health insurance.
H.R. 118 John Fleming, GOP – Louisiana : To permit a state to elect
not to
have an American Health Care Exchange.
H.R. 119 John Fleming, GOP – Louisiana : To prohibit hiring of irs
agent
to implement or enforce health insurance reform.
H.R. 127 John Graves, GOP – Georgia : To de-authorize funding of
Patient
Protection Act.
H.R. 141 Steve King, GOP – Iowa : To repeal the Patient Protection
Act.
H.R. 145 Connie Mack, GOP – Florida : To repeal the Patient
Protection Act.
H.R. 154 Ted Poe, GOP Texas : To prohibit any federal funds to be
used to
enforce Patient Protection Act.
H.R. 171 Cliff Stearns, GOP – Florida :
H.R. 2 Eric Cantor, GOP – Virginia : Repeal of Patient Protection
Act.
H.R. 38 John Fleming, GOP – Louisiana : Rescind funds authorized for
Patient Protection Act.
H.R. 9 David Drier, GOP – California : Requires Committees to look
into
Patient Protection Act.
H.R. 26 David Drier, GOP – California : Repeal Patient Protection
Act.
H.R. 215 Don Young, GOP – Alaksa : Repeal Patient Protection Act.
H.R. 19 John Carter, GOP – Texas : Disapprove rules on MLR in
Patient
Protection Act.
H.R. 299 John Carter, GOP – Texas : Repeal Patient Protection Act.
H.R. 358 Joe Pitts, GOP – Penn : Remove abortion funding from
Patient
Protection Act (there is none)
H.R. 360 Michael Burgess – Texas : Amend Patient Protection Act to
include
President in Health Care Exchanges.
H.R. 364 Tom Latham, GOP – Iowa : To Repeal Patient Protection Act
H.R. 371 Marsha Blackburn, GOP – Tennessee : Repeal Title I of
Patient
Protection Act.
H.R. 5 Phil Gingrey, GOP – Georgia : Repeal Patient Protection Act.
H.R. 397 Wally Herger, GOP – California :Repeal Patient Protection
Act.
H.R. 429 Darrell Issa, GOP, California – Repeal Patient Protection
Act.
H.R. 452 Phil Roe, GOP, Tennessee – A bill to repeal Patient
Protection
Act.
H.R. 450 Dave Reichert, GOP, Washington – A bill to repeal Patient
Protection Act.

Senate

S. 19 Orrin Hatch, GOP – Repeal Health Mandate & therefore repeal
patient
protections.
S. 17 Orrin Hatch, GOP – Repeal Tax on Medical Devices
S. 16 David Vitter, GOP – Repeal Patient Protection Act
S. 196 Chuck Grassley, GOP, Iowa – A bill to to provide
congressional
staff gets to participate in Exchange.
S. 192 Jim DeMint, GOP, South Carolina – A bill to repeal health
care.

I thought it might be interesting to see what Democrats did in their
first
11 days after assuming control of the House in 2006. Well, lookee
there.
All sorts of interesting bills (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/thomas)
in
those first days. Everything from gun show loophole closures (David
Dreier's
baby) to First Amendment protections, to small business assistance
to
alternative energy.