BOEHNER BULLETIN: HOUSE DEMOCRATS ENDORSE "SLAUGHTER SOLUTION"

Dear Friend,

Today, in a sad moment for the House of Representatives, members of Congress turned down the opportunity to have a straight up-or-down vote on a costly health care bill that will hurt our economy, and forever alter the doctor-patient relationship. Instead Democrats jumped at Democratic leadership’s “Slaughter Solution,” the ultimate in Washington power grabs, that will allow Speaker Pelosi (D-CA) to pass the Senate health care bill – “Cornhusker Kickback” and all – through the house without a vote.

This move has drawn widespread outrage – the Cincinnati Enquirer recently declared it a “disgusting process” and an “arrogant approach” – because it is designed to protect Washington politicians when it’s American taxpayers we should be looking out for. While members of Congress might not want an up-or-down vote on a trillion-dollar government takeover of health care full of tax hikes, Medicare cuts and taxpayer funding for abortions, it’s clear where the American people stand.

Earlier this week, I welcomed 8th District residents at the Capitol who traveled to D.C. to join with Americans from across the country and scream “stop!” to the Democratic Majority in Washington. I told them I would continue to fight against this bill on behalf of them and the majority of Americans who oppose this bill, while continuing to call for Congress to start over on commonsense reforms to make our current health care system better.

The President and Democratic Leaders today showed that they are going to continue to ram, ram, ram this bill through Congress. But we can still defeat this bill. In the coming days, members of Congress will be asked to make a final vote on this massive government takeover of health care. As I told my colleagues on the floor on Tuesday, this will be the biggest vote that most Members ever cast. And so they will have an important decision to make. Will they stand with Speaker Pelosi and Washington Democrats, or will they stand with the American people?Sincerely,John Boehner

NOTE: Thank you Republican Leader Boehner for continuing to stand up for the American people!

Boehner: I'm Doing Everything I Can to Prevent this Govt Takeover of Health Care from Becoming Law

Representative Boehner and House Republicans have been leading this fight against the takeover of healthcare by the Obama Administration for over a year. Republicans are still fighting this every step of the way in the Housoe and Senate. The new idea to pass this Obamacare/Senate bill without voting by using the Unconstitutional 'Slaughter Rule' is going to land House Members in the cross hairs of the SCOTUS before it is done. Democrats trying to pass the Senate bill without voting is the biggest slap in the face at the American people yet from Obama and the leadership of the Democrats in the House and Senate.

Are the Democrats too scared to go on record that they are voting for this bill? Since they want to just say the bill has passed by voting for the 'Slaughter Rule' then Republicans can assume that all Democrats are voting YES on the bill and oust them all for voting for Pelosi for Speaker that cares not one bit about the Constitution or the will of the American people!

We support Mark Levin, radio show host, in his call for Louise Slaughter to be removed from the House for coming up with this Rule which is clearly Unconstitutional.