This past week, prior to adjourning for a five week vacation, the House voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act--for the fortieth time. This latest effort involved prohibiting the I.R.S. from enforcing the law.
what eye thynk: The House voted to repeal the ACA 30 times during the last Congress. I would think that was sufficient to get their point across. We get it--you hate Obamacare. But they can't stop themselves. It's like every Republican member of the House of Representatives is addicted to the same drug.
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) said that more votes were needed in the 113th Congress because freshman Representatives wanted their chance to be on the record against the law. As juvenile as that seems, if we accept the idea, wouldn't one vote be sufficient? Do we really need ten?
If I add the salaries for the 435 members of the House together with the allocations each gets for support staff and divide that figure by 365 days in the year, I estimate that running the U.S. House of Representatives costs $1.9 Million PER DAY. Using that information, I estimate that the House's incessant symbolic votes against the ACA have cost the taxpayers approximately $76 Million to date. And when you consider that the House works significantly less than 365 days a year, the cost only goes up.
How many cuts to social programs could be eliminated if that money were allocated to the budget rather than to salving conservative egos?
Really, 40 votes are enough. Shouldn't someone suggest an intercession before the House bankrupts the country in their effort to get everyone "on the record"?
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