When the House passed legislation
to defund ObamaCare
but would keep the government
running through mid-December, the Senate, led by Senate Majority Leader,
Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) stated that they would not budge on Obamacare and the
legislation was defeated.
On Monday, Dr.
Harold Pease, an expert on the United States Constitution, stated that the authority in dealing with Obamacare funding
belongs to the U.S. House, not the U.S. Senate and that the House is doing this
all wrong.
Pease said, “Everything hinged upon funding which was given
exclusively to the House of Representatives, the only power that they alone
had.”
Pease went on
to say, “All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the
House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments
as on other Bills. To fund anything, in this case Obamacare, first approval is
required by the House of Representatives.”
“If that does
not happen taxpayer money cannot be spent. The people, through their representatives
to Congress, have determined, after a three-year closer scrutiny of The Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), that it does not protect the
patient, is not affordable and is not even workable; hence in the interests of
the vast majority of the people needs to be defunded.”
When the United
States Supreme Court ruled on Obamacare in 2012, Chief Justice Roberts stance
on Obamacare coincides with the intent of the U.S. Constitution, explained by
Pease, and the powers between the House and Senate.
According to
the U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Obamacare cannot be implemented and is not
considered the law of the land, contrary to Democrat claims.
Bubba Atkinson
of the Independent Journal Review wrote, “Chief Justice Roberts actually ruled the mandate,
relative to the commerce clause, was unconstitutional. That is how the
Democrats got Obama-care going in the first place. This is critical. His ruling
means Congress can’t compel American citizens to purchase anything, ever. The
notion is now officially and forever, unconstitutional. As it should be.”
“Next, he
stated that, because Congress doesn’t have the ability to mandate, it must, to
fund Obama-care, rely on its power to tax. Therefore, the mechanism that funds
Obama-care is a tax,” said Atkinson. “He struck down as unconstitutional, the
Obama-care idea that the federal government can bully states into complying by
yanking their existing medicaid funding. Liberals, through Obama-care,
basically said to the states — “comply with Obama-care or we will stop existing
funding.” Roberts ruled that is a no-no.”
When the House
attached Obamacare to the legislation in funding the government, it made a
mistake in doing so and the funding of Obamacare should have been separate,
thereby giving the Senate no power in denying the Houses’ request to defund
Obamacare.
Pease said, “House opposition to funding Obamacare would have been
far more powerful if made a “stand alone” bill not attached to general funding,
but it is not. “Stand alone,” having no other parts, would have left the Senate
no wiggle or compromise room once it went to them, nor would there be for the
Joint Conference Committee thereafter that reconciles any differences between
the two houses. There would be nothing to reconcile, Obamacare is merely
defunded.”
“Still, the
intent of the Founding Fathers was to give the people, through their House of
Representatives, the power collectively to say no to any proposed federal tax,
which she is decidedly doing.”
If Obamacare is
removed from the government budget, presented, and voted on as a separate bill,
Obamacare can be defunded by the House and the Senate and the President has no
constitutional authority to override the House decision.
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