Garret and Freylinghuysen are helping the Tea Party neuter Congress. Congressman Rodney Freylinghuysen and Congressman Scott Garrett are full partners with the Tea Party in bringing the United States Congress to a halt. They are making its deliberations a colossal waste of time. The GOP has tied up the House of Representatives about 40 times passing bills seeking to kill Obamacare. They do this with the full knowledge that these bills are going nowhere, either in the Senate or on the President’s desk. Rodney Freylinghuysen has the temerity in his Newsletter to point with pride to this patently worthless waste of time. The latest episode of this unproductive drill took place last week. For the umpteenth time the GOP brought to the floor a bill (HR2668) to kill a part of the Affordable Care Act. This time it attacked the individual mandate, which would require US residents to acquire medical insurance and provide financial help for those who could not afford it. Every expert agrees that this portion of the program is necessary to make the rest of the bill work. The GOP’s purpose was to make the beneficial aspects of the healthcare program impossible to effectuate. Freylinghuysen and Garrett joined the GOP majority to enact the bill. Meanwhile, both of them voted against an amendment to the bill that would protect key provisions of the 2010 health law that have proven popular with Americans. The amendment would have kept in effect a ban on discrimination on the basis of pre-existing conditions or gender, curbs on copayments and out-of-pocket expenses and a provision for tax credits and rebates to make health insurance affordable for everyone. Garrett and Freylinghuysen helped kill the amendment. It’s clear that Garrett, Freylinghuysen and the Republican majority in the House of Representatives are not interested in solving the massive problems this country has financing health care. It’s obvious that solving problems, or ironing out flaws in the health care system, is subordinate to doing anything possible to embarrass the Obama Administration by causing the failure of health care reform. Along the way, Garrett, Freylinghuysen and the GOP have made Congress irrelevant in the search for solutions to the problems facing this country and its citizens. They have succeeded in making Congress impotent. And our elected Representatives, Scott Garrett and Rodney Freylinghuysen, are complicit in this unworthy undertaking.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 18:23:57 +0000
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