Rand Paul And Mitch McConnell Speak Out Against Repealing ObamaCare
Excerpted from BuzzFeed: A potential Republican-controlled Senate should focus more on legislation it will be able to pass instead of throwing all its energy into a wholesale repeal of Obamacare, both Sens. Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell agreed on Monday.
Sen. Ted Cruz a likely 2016 presidential candidate like Paul, and the ringleader of the aggressive House Republican caucus from his perch in the Senate told the Washington Post on Sunday that if the Republicans win the Senate this Election Day, they should “pursue every means possible to repeal Obamacare,” including exploiting various parliamentary procedures to avoid a Democratic filibuster.
“We ought to concentrate just on winning” the election, Paul said when asked about Cruz’s comments on Monday after a stop on the campaign trail with McConnell in Kentucky. “There are a lot of things I want to do, and everybody has their own sort of agenda.”
Speaking after his campaign stop in Bowling Green, McConnell echoed Paul, saying that there is little chance that the president would sign a repeal bill, though his conference will try to take apart the Affordable Care Act piece by piece.
A GOP-led Senate “would certainly be voting on things like repealing the medical device tax, restoring the 40-hour work week, discontinuing the individual mandate,” McConnell told reporters. “With the president in the position that he’s in, I can’t imagine he would sign a full repeal, but there’s various parts of it that are very unpopular and we will be voting on them.” Read the whole thing
http://patdollard.com/2014/11/rand-paul-and-mitch-mcconnell-speak-out-against-repealing-obamacare/#Gk2sHT1IocFJmWcw.99
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