Redheaded Rambles

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Keith Ellison (D-Minn) moves to adjourn House to protest Obamacare vote

U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., shut the House down for 15 minutes Tuesday by forcing a roll call vote on his motion to adjourn in protest of tomorrow’s expected vote on a GOP measure to repeal President Obama’s health care law.

Ellison called the GOP repeal measure – the 31^st attempt to repeal “Obamacare” in whole or in part – “political theater at its worst.”

Noting that the GOP measure has no chance in the Senate, Ellison accused Republicans of wasting time.

“I move to adjourn,” he said, “because we’re not doing anything anyway.” The floor debate on the “Repeal of ObamaCare Act” is being led today by Minnesota Republican John Kline.

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“This is political theater at its worst because Americans are out of work and this body isn’t doing anything about it. Everyone here knows that the President can’t just whip up a jobs bill out of thin air. Congress has to pass it, but Congress wont pass it because they’re busy doing political stunts and that is a shame.”

“He believed that it was a moral issue, that it defined the character of who we were as a society, who we were as a country and that decent, quality, affordable health care should be a fundamental right and not a privilege. And now all three branches of our federal government have affirmed that right and I think if Teddy were here he would tell us now it’s time to roll up our sleeves, get to work, fully implement the law and move on with the business of our country.” - Vicki Kennedy, widow of late Senator Ted Kennedy

(Source: abcnews.go.com)

“Ultimately, I am confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.”