Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON DC U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX) chairman of the House Rules Committee today issued the following statement after voting in favor of a budget reconciliation package that will cut the federal deficit by half a trillion dollars over the next 10 years by repealing the core parts of the presidents health law and defunding Planned Parenthood:
Todays vote represents the first time both the House and the Senate have passed a measure to repeal ObamaCare since it was signed by the president nearly six years ago. Weve said it time and time again the presidents health law is bad for American families bad for businesses and bad for doctors and their patients.
Republicans utilized budget reconciliation a key procedural tool that allows Congress to avoid filibuster in the Senate to gut this historically bad law and put its repeal on the presidents desk. The measure also defunds Planned Parenthood so now it is up to the president to decide whether he believes taxpayer dollars should go towards funding the organizations abhorrent dangerous practices next year."
Sessions
last supported the Restoring Americans Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act H.R. 3762 in October 2015. He has voted to defund the Affordable Care Act more than 50 times. For more information click
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