URGENT: Watch this Fox News interview with South Carolina Senator DeMint concerning health care bill. Senator DeMint explains that the Senate could vote as early as tomorrow (Friday, November 20th.) to proceed (i.e. send health care bill to the Senate floor). He explains that a vote to proceed is a vote for the bill.
More info on this can be found in the alert issued by Phyllis Schlafly, posted below.
Eagle Forum of Georgia Urges an Unconditional NO Vote on the Cloture Motion to Proceed to the Anti-Life Senate Health Care Bill
Posted Thursday, November 19th.
Last evening, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) unveiled his 2,074-page health care bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act. Not only is less strict, less-than-Stupak abortion funding language contained in Reid’s bill, but there is still nothing in place to remedy the problem that is the underlying mechanism for carrying out single-payer, government-run health care—the rationing of life-saving medical treatments and placing the lives and the most intimate health decisions of every American in the hands of Washington bureaucrats.
Eagle Forum urges the U.S. Senate to cast an unconditional NO vote on the cloture vote on the motion to proceed, which requires a 60 vote threshold and will likely occur this Saturday, November 21st.
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Sue Ella Deadwyler, Speaker
Tuesday, October 27th
6:30 – 8:00 PM
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Augusta, GA 30904
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Senator Harry Reid wants the healthcare bill to pass the Senate Finance Committee by Tuesday October 6th and the full Senate to vote by Thursday, October 8th.
Senate Finance Committee rejects more conservative amendments:
Rejected: Grassley (R-IA) amendment to require all immigrants, legal and illegal, to prove their identity with a photo when signing up for federal healthcare programs.
Rejected: Hatch (R-UT) amendment to prohibit federal funding of elective abortions and health plans that cover such abortions.
Rejected: Hatch (R-UT) amendment to ensure respect for the conscience rights of health care workers who don’t want to perform abortions because of moral or religious objections.
Rejected: Bunning (R-KY) amendment to require that final legislative language and the final cost be made publicly available on the committee Web site at least 72 hours prior to voting.
Rejected: Ensign (R-NV) amendment to require any “czar” handling health care issues to be subject to the Senate confirmation process.
Rejected: Cronyn (R-TX) amendment to ensure that nothing requires individuals or employers to change the coverage they currently have.
Rejected: Cronyn (R-TX) amendment to ensure that people could keep the same coverage they have through their employer without new government mandates driving up their costs.
Rejected: Enzi (R-WY) amendment allowed individuals who would otherwise be enrolled in Medicaid through expansion of the program the right to choose to enroll in private coverage.
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