Reid to allow vote in US Senate to defund ‘Obamacare’ part of budget compromise - Las Vegas Democrat | Examiner.com
This past Friday night Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) and President Barack Obama found a way to compromise on the remainder of the budget for 2011 and avert a government shutdown.
The 11th hour deal is being hailed as a victory by both in the Democratic Party and in the Republican Party, with President Obama calling it an historical deal that will create the largest government budget cuts in history, $78.5 billion.
Included in the deal were guarantees by Senator Reid that he would allow a vote in the Senate to deny funding to President Obama’s signature health care reforms, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka “Obamacare”, which was signed into Law on March 23, 2009.
Back in January when the Republicans took control of the House their very first Bill H.R. 1, was to repeal the health care reforms. The Bill past along Party lines as expected, but the Republicans knew that the Senate, which is controlled by the Democrats and Senator Reid, would never allow it to come to the floor for a vote. That is until now.
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