Sessions Votes Once Again to Cut Deficit, Repeal ObamaCare, Defund Planned Parenthood

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX), chairman of the House Rules Committee, today issued the following statement after voting in favor of a budget reconciliation package that will cut the federal deficit by half a trillion dollars over the next 10 years by repealing the core parts of the president’s health law and defunding Planned Parenthood:

“Today’s vote represents the first time both the House and the Senate have passed a measure to repeal ObamaCare since it was signed by the president nearly six years ago.  We’ve said it time and time again – the president’s health law is bad for American families, bad for businesses and bad for doctors and their patients. Republicans utilized budget reconciliation, a key procedural tool that allows Congress to avoid filibuster in the Senate, to gut this historically bad law and put its repeal on the president's desk. The measure also defunds Planned Parenthood, so now it is up to the president to decide whether he believes taxpayer dollars should go towards funding the organization’s abhorrent, dangerous practices next year.”

Sessions last supported the Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act, H.R. 3762, in October 2015. He has voted to defund the Affordable Care Act more than 50 times. For more information, click here.

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Created:
Jan 6, 2016