Just a reminder that the cucks sent a repeal plan up to Obama 2/2/16

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House fails to override president's veto of Obamacare repeal


WASHINGTON — The House on Tuesday failed to override President Obama's veto of a bill that would have repealed key provisions of Obamacare and stripped federal funding from Planned Parenthood.

The 241-186 vote to override the veto fell short of the two-thirds needed, ensuring that the Affordable Care Act will remain in place at least through the final year of Obama's term. Republican leaders, who have been criticized by Democrats for failing to come up with an alternative to Obamacare, said they plan to craft a replacement plan this year as a kind of preview for what they hope to do in the next Congress.

The vote came just hours after the president met with House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to talk about issues where the White House and Congress might be able to work together. Those issues include criminal justice and mental health reform, the Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership, Puerto Rico's financial crisis, the opioid epidemic, the Zika virus and efforts to cure cancer.

Republican House leaders knew that they would lose the Obamacare vote, but they are hoping to use the issue to convince voters to elect a GOP president to help them overturn the 2010 heath care law in the next Congress.

"The president is the only person standing in the way of what the American people want, so our job now is to stand up for them, to demonstrate for them who is on their side," said Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price, R-Ga.

However, even if the next president is a Republican, it could be tough to push a repeal of Obamacare through the Senate, where Democrats are expected to pick up seats in the November election and could even win the majority.

Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, the senior Democrat on the Budget Committee, said it was fitting that the vote came on Groundhog Day since it was the 63rd time that House Republicans have tried to overturn Obamacare and the 12th time they have tried to defund Planned Parenthood.

"It probably breaks all records in wasting taxpayer time and money," Van Hollen said before the vote. "This is a futile gesture, part of an obsession to try to undo affordable care for 22 million Americans, and it's not going to happen."

The House voted 240-181 on Jan. 6 to gut Obamacare and cut off federal funding for Planned Parenthood for a year. The Senate approved the legislation in December by using a special budget procedure that required only a simple majority rather than the 60 votes typically needed to approve major legislation. Obama vetoed the bill on Jan. 8.

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