Toomey Explains Obamacare Fight

Toomey Explains Obamacare Fight — Pennsylvania’s Pat Toomey, who was one of 19 Republicans in the Senate who voted to defund Obamacare, has issued the below statement explaining his strategy. Thank you, Senator. You are an independent thinker and not one of those who are part of the problem.

Toomey Explains Obamacare FightAll my Republican colleagues and I want to end Obamacare completely. All the Democrats support Obamacare and want it to continue. The Republicans control the House and have passed defunding legislation. Democrats control the Senate and will not pass defunding legislation. Thus, we are at an impasse. Yesterday, seeking to break this all-or-nothing standoff, I proposed a way to fund the government and to repeal some of the most egregious parts of this terrible law. Acknowledging that Senator Reid has the votes to strip the bill of its Obamacare defunding language, I sought to offer three modest amendments to the Senate bill. The first would repeal the medical device tax that is costing Pennsylvania jobs; the second would provide relief from the infringement on religious liberty in Obamacare; the third would delay the individual mandate for one year.

Those three items all have bipartisan support, could have passed the Senate, and might well be acceptable to the House.  But we will never know because the Democratic leadership would not permit me to offer those amendments. For this reason, and others, I voted against the measure.

I remain hopeful that Congress will avoid a government shutdown. I will continue working with colleagues on both sides of the aisle and in both chambers of Congress to find a responsible solution.

 Toomey Explains Obamacare Fight

One thought on “Toomey Explains Obamacare Fight”

  1. Senator Toomey is to be commended for standing with the people of PA in working to reverse some the more sinister aspects of Obamacare. Thank you Senator for doing what many other senators lacked the courage to do!

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