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Supreme Court To Hear Cases On ObamaCare
Republicans and Democrats Suggest President’s Military Plan
Against ISIS Does Not Go Far Enough
The simmering debate about ObamaCare reemerged in Washington this week amid questions about the plaintiffs in the upcoming Supreme Court case on the health law and Republicans sounding more urgent about preparing for the ruling.
The high court will hear ar- guments in early March over whether the health-care law allows people in states with- out their own insurance mar- kets to receive federal tax credits that reduce coverage costs.
The number of uninsured could rise by 8 million if the subsidies disappear, two in- dependent think tanks have estimated.
“We have to have a contin- gency plan,” House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said Fri- day.
Republicans and Democ-
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Congress restricting him might be unconstitutional.
McCain also said he con- tinues to push for more U.S. military presence around the world because the president shouldn’t have pulled out of some hotspots — like Afghanistan and Iraq.
He also said Pres. Obama probably doesn’t need con- gressional authority, but Con- gress should debate the issue.
To be sure, leaders of the Republican-run House and Senate on Sunday vowed a full debate, starting when members return Feb. 24.
rats agree that a ruling for the plaintiffs could wipe out sub- sidies for millions of Ameri- cans, in three-fourths of U.S. states, and result in the law being rewritten.
A ruling is not expected until at least June. Ryan did not say Friday when a contin- gency plan would be finished but made clear it would not be fixes to the law.
Republicans, who control Congress after having won the Senate in November, say dismantling ObamaCare re- mains a priority.
Congressional Democrats and Republicans on Sunday criticized the proposal Pres- ident Obama recently sub- mitted to Capitol Hill on defeating The Islamic State, suggesting it doesn’t go far enough.
Some of the most pointed criticism came from Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
He said the part of the pro- posal that limits the use of U.S. military force to three years is “not appropriate.”
The draft proposal that
Pres. Obama submitted to Congress last week also calls for limited use of U.S. ground troops and no geographical limits on going after the ex- tremist groups.
If approved, the Authoriza- tion for Use of Military Force would repeal the 2002 one that President George W. Bush used for the war in Iraq.
Sen. John McCain, R- Ariz., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, argued on “Meet the Press” that the President should have broad authority and that
President Thought Slogan ‘Yes We Can’ Was Corny; Mrs. Obama Did Not
During his 2004 run for U.S. Senate, Barack Obama wondered if the campaign slogan “Yes We Can” was too corny.
According to David Axel- rod, Obama’s media con- sultant at the time, it took Michelle Obama to con- vince the then-Illinois state senator that it wasn’t.
“Michelle just happened to come by for the first ad shoot, and that was the ad that closed with the line ‘Yes we can,’” Axelrod told the New York Times Magazine. “He read through the script once, and after the first take,
he said, ‘Gee, is that too corny?’ I explained why I thought it was a great tagline, and he turned to Michelle and said, ‘What do you think?’ She just slowly shook her head from side to side and said, ‘Not corny.’ Thank God she was there that day.”
President Obama, of course, won the 2004 elec- tion, and the “Yes We Can” tagline returned during his 2008 campaign for presi- dent, becoming a rallying cry for supporters — not to men- tion a song and music video for will.I.am.
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