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Sunday, December 15, 2013

Yes, States Have the Constitutional Right to Nullify Obamacare

Capitalism Institute: Every effort to navigate the proper channels to repeal Obamacare have been thus far blocked by Democrats (and even some big government Republicans), despite practically everyone hating the oppressive legislation.

Naturally, states are considering other means by which to stop this economic disaster before it gets even worse.

South Carolina and Georgia have already jumped on board with a state-level model developed by the Tenth Amendment Center to effectively nullify Obamacare in their states. The template is even being applied outlaw the NSA from operating within Arizona.

Using this model to combat Obamacare, South Carolina and Georgia are prepared to “nullify” Obamacare by withholding the state’s personnel and resources the law depends on. It would be illegal for the state’s resources to contribute towards the law’s implementation. This is essentially how it works:

Nullification begins with a decision made in your state legislature to resist a federal law deemed to be unconstitutional. It usually involves a bill, passed by both houses and signed by your governor. In some cases, it might be approved by the voters of your state directly, in a referendum. It may change your state’s statutory law or it might even amend your state constitution. It is a refusal on the part of your state government to cooperate with, or enforce any federal law it deems to be unconstitutional.

Most of the “naysayers” will tell you that these nullification efforts are “illegal” because of the supremacy clause:

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.

However, those at the Tenth Amendment Center disagree:

The major argument used by those that oppose Nullification is the Constitution’s supremacy clause. But in fact, the arguments for the supremacy clause ARE the arguments for nullification.

They continue:

The major architects of the Constitution, and those that led the fight for its adoption, laid down what the supremacy clause meant during the ratifying conventions. By doing so, they defended state sovereignty, and set the stage for the negation of unconstitutional actions.

Judge Andrew Napolitano, a senior judicial and political analyst, recently confirmed that these efforts are, in fact, legal — and effective

[I]t will gut Obamacare because the federal government does not have the resources or the wherewithal […] to go into each of the individual states.

It was Alexander Hamilton who said, “but the laws of Congress are restricted to a certain sphere, and when they depart from this sphere, they are no longer supreme or binding.”

The TAC cites several other historic quotes from the New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina ratifying conventions and the Federalist Papers demonstrating that the supremacy clause is — and was intended to be — a platform upon which we could hold an overbearing federal government “in check”:

[The Founders] established the means for the states to defend themselves and their citizens from a general government that exceeding its authority and that power is NULLIFICATION.

The nullification of overbearing, unconstitutional federal laws is essential to preserving our liberty. The Founders were certainly not ignorant of the consequences of letting a federal government run amok; thus, they crafted in our Constitution a fail-safe.

When Congress seems more interested in propelling us head-first into tyranny rather than protecting us from it, we have to take matters into our own hands.

The nullification efforts in South Carolina, Georgia, and Arizona are just the beginning.

You can help fight this country’s descent into despotism by sharing this article with your legislators, friends, family, and colleagues. Liberty is at risk with every passing generation. It is time to take action.

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Harry Reid: Obamacare 'Costs Me About $4,500 More'

Image: Harry Reid: Obamacare 'Costs Me About $4,500 More'

NewsMax: President Barack Obama may have famously promised his signature healthcare plan would cost consumers less money — but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is proof that it's often not true.

"Under Obamacare, my insurance costs me about $4,500 more than it did before," Reid told the Reno Gazette Journal. "Yes, because it is age-related and it wasn't like that before."
Reid, while noting that 150 million families get insurance through their employers, "so should all federal employees."

Reid's comments came while he denied a CNN story claiming he is the only top congressional leader to exempt some of his staff from having to buy coverage through the Obamacare exchanges.

"I followed the Affordable Care Act,” Reid said. “It is the law. The law says that if you have committee staff, leadership staff, they stay where they are. If you have other staff, which is most everyone, they go to the exchanges."

Reid is worth $2.8 to $6.2 million, according to an OpenSecrets.org report, so he would not qualify for subsidies that would lower his Obamacare insurance costs.

But his rate hike is an eye-opener after promises made by people like House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who told Meet the Press last year that "everybody would have lower rates" under Obamacare.

And the healthcare rate increases under ObamaCare have been eye-openers for not only the rich, but for many in the middle class and after all is said and done there will be as many uninsured Americans as before only now the government controls one sixth of the U.S. budget through healthcare as well as everyone’s healthcare options.  Wake-up America, the outcome of the next two elections will be the only chance to change this.  Time to oust the Harry Reids, Nancy Pelosis and Barack Obama’s

Pelosi denied to The Weekly Standard in a later report that she'd made the statement, saying she doesn't "remember saying that everybody in the country would have a lower premium."
But a study earlier this year by two members of the American Academy of Actuaries found that tens of millions will see higher insurance costs, reports Forbes, with or without the subsidies — and just like Harry Reid.

James Carville: Don’t Blame Republicans; Blame Obama

CapitalismInstitute: The roll-out of Obamacare has been nothing short of a disaster. Naturally, the Obama Administration has pathetically tried to pin the blame on Republicans.

But, even James Carville, a top Democratic strategist, says Obamacare was a “self-inflicted … disaster.”

Blind party loyalty should never trump facts and Carville demonstrated this in an interview with Fox Business Network recently.

The Washington Examiner reports:

The rollout of this has been awful, and it didn’t have to be that way at all. I think the president has himself to blame as much as anybody. I don’t think he was done in, in this instance by the Republicans, or done in by the media, done in by anything.

While Carville (mistakenly) believes that Obamacare is “going to get better” with time, he is right about one thing: The roll-out of Obamacare was a “massive mess-up” and no one else is to blame but Obama.

Carville is also a little off on the “massive mess-up" as well… It’s more like the “planned dirty Secret behind” ObamaCare,,, rationing, that no one’s talking about and that the goal is Single-Payer Socialized Medicine for all but the elite, but again, either way it all falls into the lap of Obama and the Democrats… not the Republicans, but as long as the media plays the lap dog for the administration, you won’t get the straight scoop from the mainstream media news.

Carville continued:

I look at these polls, and I got to tell you, I think it is all self-inflicted. I think this rollout, which I think they got to get right, was a disaster; it was a joke.

Carville joins the rest of the American people in recognizing Obamacare for what it is: a joke.

He addressed Obama’s “if you like it, you can keep it” lie:

Well, the truth of the matter is, it could be said that he could have — he could have said it a lot more elegantly than he did. …

And there was a way to talk about, you know, how many people would get to keep their health insurance in a way that wasn’t causing this much trouble.

In other words: You should avoid lying to the American people about the consequences of your economically catastrophic law. To say the least, it could “[cause] some grief.”

Even the Obama Administration’s long-time allies are realizing that Obamacare has been a disaster – and no one else is to blame except Obama. If you agree, “recommend” this article on Facebook, Twitter and forward it to help spread the word.

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Millennials Abandon Obama and Obamacare

A majority of America's youngest adults would vote to recall the president.

(JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)

National Journal: Young Americans are turning against Barack Obama and Obamacare, according to a new survey of millennials, people between the ages of 18 and 29 who are vital to the fortunes of the president and his signature health care law.

The most startling finding of Harvard University's Institute of Politics: A majority of Americans under age 25 -- the youngest millennials -- would favor throwing Obama out of office.

The survey, part of a unique 13-year study of the attitudes of young adults, finds that America's rising generation is worried about its future, disillusioned with the U.S. political system, strongly opposed to the government's domestic surveillance apparatus, and drifting away from both major parties. "Young Americans hold the president, Congress and the federal government in less esteem almost by the day, and the level of engagement they are having in politics are also on the decline," reads the IOP's analysis of its poll. "Millennials are losing touch with government and its programs because they believe government is losing touch with them."

The results blow a gaping hole in the belief among many Democrats that Obama's two elections signaled a durable grip on the youth vote.

Indeed, millennials are not so hot on their president.

Obama's approval rating among young Americans is just 41 percent, down 11 points from a year ago, and now tracking with all adults. While 55 percent said they voted for Obama in 2012, only 46 percent said they would do so again.

When asked if they would want to recall various elected officials, 45 percent of millennials said they would oust their member of Congress; 52 percent replied "all members of Congress" should go; and 47 percent said they would recall Obama. The recall-Obama figure was even higher among the youngest millennials, ages 18 to 24, at 52 percent.

While there is no provision for a public recall of U.S. presidents, the poll question revealed just how far Obama has fallen in the eyes of young Americans.

IOP director Trey Grayson called the results a "sea change" attributable to the generation's outsized and unmet expectations for Obama, as well as their concerns about the economy, Obamacare and government surveillance.

The survey of 2,089 young adults, conducted Oct. 30 through Nov. 11, spells trouble for the Affordable Care Act. The fragile economics underpinning the law hinge on the willingness of healthy, young Americans to forgo penalties and buy health insurance.

According to the poll, 57 percent of millennials disapprove of Obamacare, with 40 percent saying it will worsen their quality of care and a majority believing it will drive up costs. Only 18 percent say Obamacare will improve their care. Among 18-to-29-year-olds currently without health insurance, less than one-third say they're likely to enroll in the Obamacare exchanges. 

More than two-thirds of millennials said they heard about the ACA through the media. That's a bad omen for Obamacare, given the intensive coverage of the law's botched rollout. Just one of every four young Americans said they discussed the law with a friend or through social media. Harvard's John Della Volpe, who conducted the poll, said the president has done a poor job explaining the ACA to young Americans.

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Republican and Democratic leaders should find little solace in the results. The survey said that 33 percent of young Americans consider themselves Democrats and 24 percent identify with the GOP. The largest and growing segment is among independents, 41 percent of the total.

Democrats' advantage among young voters is fading. Among the oldest millennials (ages 25 to 29), Democrats hold a 16-point lead over the GOP: 38 percent say they're Democrats, and 22 percent call themselves Republicans. Among the youngest of this rising generation (ages 18 to 24), the gap is just 6 points, 31 percent for Democrats and 25 percent for Republicans.

Approval ratings of Congress have declined steeply in the past few years, with congressional Democrats now at 35 percent and congressional Republicans at just 19 percent.

Young blacks say they are much less likely to vote in the 2014 midterm election than they were in November 2009, signaling a worrisome level of engagement among a key Democratic constituency.

In addition to health care, domestic spying is an issue that puts Obama on the wrong side of the rising generation. While split on whether Edward Snowden is a "patriot" or a "traitor" for revealing Obama's surveillance programs, strong majorities of 18-to-29-year-olds oppose the government collecting information from social networks, Web-browsing histories, email, GPS locations, telephone calls, and text messages.  

College loans are a big issue with young Americans, too. Nearly six of 10 called student debt a major problem, and another 22 percent called it a minor one. Seventy percent said their financial situation played into their decision whether to attend college.

Respondents were given a list of options for shrinking the nation's debt. Majorities favored suggestions to tax the rich, cut foreign economic aid in half, slash the nuclear-warhead arsenal, and reduce food stamps.

The results conform with a story I did this summer with the help of the IOP ("The Outsiders: How Can Millennials Change Washington If They Hate It?"), arguing that while Millennials are deeply committed to public service they don't see government as an efficient way to improve their lives or their communities.

The IOP report issued today said: "This is not to say that young Americans are rejecting politics, the role of government and the promise of America more generally. They are sending a message to those in power that for them to re-engage in government and politics, the political process must be open, collaborative and have the opportunity for impact -- and not one that simply perpetuates well-worn single issue agendas."

The survey was conducted online. The National Journal generally refrains from covering online-only polls but has made past exceptions. In this case, Harvard's IOP survey uniquely focuses on millennials with accumulated data set and a credible polling operation.

(Find full poll results here: http://www.iop.harvard.edu/)

Monday, November 18, 2013

Obamacare: The Final Nail In The Coffin For The Middle Class

Coffin-300x208 Tom Halloran: If there were any shreds of hope left that the stunning decline of the middle class could be turned around, Obamacare has absolutely destroyed them.  Over the past decade or so, the middle class in the United States has been absolutely eviscerated.  The number of working age Americans without a job has increased by 27 million since the year 2000, median household income in the U.S. has fallen for five years in a row, and the poverty numbers in this country are spiraling out of control.  And now here comes Obamacare.  As you will see below, Obamacare is causing millions of Americans to lose their current health insurance policies, it is causing health insurance premiums to explode to absolutely ridiculous levels, and it is systematically killing jobs even though the employer mandate has been delayed for a while.  All of this is creating a tremendous amount of stress for millions of middle class families that are already stretched extremely thin financially.  According to CNN, a survey that was conducted earlier this year found that 76 percent of all Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.  Most of those families simply cannot afford to pay much higher health insurance premiums for new policies that also come with much larger deductibles and significantly increased out-of-pocket costs.  Millions of those families will ultimately end up choosing to do without health insurance altogether, and that will create a whole host of new problems.  This is a disaster that is so enormous that it is really hard to put into words.  If the U.S. health care system was a separate country, it would be the 6th largest economy on the entire globe all by itself.  And now Obamacare is going to bring the entire U.S. health care system to its knees.

Obamacare: Since October 1st, The Number Of Americans With Health Insurance Has Fallen By Nearly 4 Million

Last week, Barack Obama decided to allow Americans to keep their current health insurance plans for one more year.

Isn’t that generous of him?  Especially considering the fact that he promised us over and over that if we liked our current health insurance policies that we would be able to keep them permanently.

The funny thing is that Obama is not actually changing the law.  So if your health insurance company allows you to stay on your current health insurance plan that does not meet the requirements of Obamacare, it is technically breaking the law.

And if you continue to stay on that current health insurance plan that does not meet the requirements of Obamacare, you are technically breaking the law.

It is just that Obama has promised not to enforce what the law says for one year.

For a president to just blatantly disregard the rule of law is a very dangerous precedent.  Do we really want the president to have the power to decide what laws are going to be enforced and what laws are not going to be enforced?

That sounds dangerously close to a dictatorship to me.

And in any event, there are many Americans that are not going to be able to keep their current policies no matter what Obama says.  For example, just two hours after Obama announced his plan last week, the state of Washington announced that they would not be allowing insurance companies to extend their old health insurance plans if they don’t comply with Obamacare under any circumstances…

State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has rejected President Obama’s proposal to allow insurance companies to extend health insurance policies for people who have received notices that their policies will be cancelled at the end of the year.

Within two hours of President Obama’s news conference announcing the proposed administrative fix for Americans upset by their policy cancellations, Kreidler issued a statement rejecting the proposal.

“I understand that many people are upset by the notices they have recently received from their health plans and they may not need the new benefits [in the Affordable Care Act] today,” he said. “But I have serious concerns about how President Obama’s proposal would be implemented and more significantly, its potential impact on the overall stability of our health insurance market.”

“I do not believe his proposal is a good deal for the state of Washington,” Kreidler’s statement continued. “We will not be allowing insurance companies to extend their policies.”

How do you think the people of the state of Washington will respond to that?

Things are getting crazy out there, and the number of people that are losing their health insurance policies is absolutely stunning.

According to the Wall Street Journal, so far 106,185 Americans have enrolled in Obamacare since October 1st.  Most of those that have successfully enrolled have done so through the state insurance exchanges.  So far, only 26,794 Americans have signed up for health insurance using the federally run exchanges on HealthCare.gov.

Meanwhile, during that same time frame, 4.02 million Americans have had their health insurance policies cancelled.

So that means that the number of Americans with health insurance has actually decreased by 3,918,205 since October 1st.

Wasn’t Obamacare supposed to result in more Americans being covered?

And according to U.S. Senator Rand Paul, Obama not only knew that this would happen, he actually wrote the regulation that caused this to happen…

“I’m still learning about it. It’s 20,000 pages of regulations. The Bill was 2,000 pages and I didn’t realize this until this week, the whole idea of you losing or getting your insurance cancelled wasn’t in the original Obamacare. It was a regulation WRITTEN BY PRESIDENT OBAMA, three months later. So we had a vote, this is before I got up there. The Republicans had a vote to try to cancel that regulation so you COULDN’T BE CANCELLED, to grandfather everybody in. You know what the vote was? Straight party line. EVERY DEMOCRAT VOTED TO KEEP THE RULE THAT CANCELS YOUR INSURANCE.”

So now millions of Americans, including women battling cancer, are losing health insurance plans that they were depending upon.

Thanks Obama?

Obamacare: Skyrocketing Health Insurance Premiums

How much more are you willing to pay for health insurance than you are paying right now?

10 percent?

20 percent?

30 percent?

Well, according to one study health insurance premiums for men are going to go up by an average of 99 percent under Obamacare and health insurance premiums for women are going to go up by an average of 62 percent under Obamacare.

And of course some groups are going to see increases that are much larger than that.  For example, it is being projected that health insurance premiums for healthy 30-year-old men will rise by an average of 260 percent.

Ouch.

And there are some families out there that have already been hit with health insurance premium increases that are absolutely jaw-dropping.  In a previous article, I included the example of one family down in Texas that has been hit with a 539% rate increase…

Obamacare is named the “Affordable Care Act,” after all, and the President promised the rates would be “as low as a phone bill.” But I just received a confirmed letter from a friend in Texas showing a 539% rate increase on an existing policy that’s been in good standing for years.

As the letter reveals (see below), the cost for this couple’s policy under Humana is increasing from $212.10 per month to $1,356.60 per month. This is for a couple in good health whose combined income is less than $70K — a middle-class family, in other words.

Obamacare: Enormous Deductibles And Huge Out-Of-Pocket Expenses For All

It isn’t just health insurance premiums that are going up either.  Deductibles are going up too.  In fact, just check out what one survey of Americans living in seven different states recently discovered

Expenses for some policies can reach $6,350 for a single person and $12,700 per family, the most allowed by the health-care law, according to a survey by HealthPocket Inc. of seven states, including California and Ohio. That’s 26 percent higher than the average deductible in the seven states, and a scenario likely repeated across the country, said Kev Coleman, head of research and data at Sunnyvale, California-based HealthPocket.

That same article has a great quote from an elderly New Jersey resident.  82-year-old Larry Saphire thinks that if you have to pay a $5,000 deductible up front, “you might as well not have any insurance at all”…

“If you have to pay $5,000 upfront” when illness hits, “you might as well not have any insurance at all,” said Larry Saphire, 82, of West Orange, New Jersey, who shopped for coverage for his wife and two children, ages 16 and 21. “That’s not insurance.”

On California’s state-run exchange site, the standard low-premium “bronze” plan carries a $5,000 deductible per person, a $60 co-pay to see a doctor and a 30 percent fee, known as coinsurance, on hospital care. In Rhode Island, Blue Cross Blue Shield’s bronze plan has a $5,800 deductible while Missouri’s U.S.-run exchange offers plans by Anthem Blue Cross with the maximum-allowable $6,350 in out-of-pocket costs.

Obamacare: The Quality Of Care Is Going To Go Into The Toilet

A lot of Americans that are signing up for Obamacare are going to be in for a huge shock.  Many of the best hospitals and many of the best doctors are not covered by their plans

Meanwhile, sometime between March and June, the other shoe drops: People who bought exchange policies realize that the restricted networks insurers created to keep the premium costs low cut out the best hospitals and doctors. A newly insured child with cancer cannot get into a top pediatric hospital because her insurance has zero coverage for out-of-network emergency care. Tearful Mom goes on the evening news and says that she thought when they went on Obamacare, that meant they were safe, and why can’t I take my baby to Philadelphia Children’s Hospital, Mr. President?

Can you imagine being a parent in that situation?

In response, some hospitals are already filing suit over this.  For instance, check out what is happening over in Seattle

Seattle Children’s Hospital filed suit against Washington State’s Office of the Insurance Commissioner this week, after Obamacare implementation caused the hospital to be cut from four of the six insurance plans offered by the new Washington Health Benefit Exchange.

And even if you are on Medicare that does not mean that the quality of your care is going to stay the same either.  As Reuters just reported, UnitedHealth is dumping “thousands of doctors” from their Medicare Advantage plans for the elderly because of Obamacare…

UnitedHealth Group dropped thousands of doctors from its networks in recent weeks, leaving many elderly patients unsure whether they need to switch plans to continue seeing their doctors, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

The insurer said in October that underfunding of Medicare Advantage plans for the elderly could not be fully offset by the company’s other healthcare business. The company also reported spending more healthcare premiums on medical claims in the third quarter, due mainly to government cuts to payments for Medicare Advantage services.

In the United States, we already pay much more for health care than everyone else in the world, and we typically have to wait longer to see a doctor than most of the rest of the industrialized world does.

Now Obamacare is going to make all of this even worse, and the quality of the care that we receive is going to go downhill fast.

Obamacare: The Jobs Killer

A while back, Obama unilaterally made the decision to delay the implementation of the employer mandate until 2015.

That was probably a good political decision, because it would have been a huge political issue in the 2014 elections.

But the truth is that we won’t have to wait until 2015 for Obamacare to start killing jobs.  In fact, according to CNBC it is already happening…

Approximately one-third of business decision-makers at companies with between 40 and 500 employees, say the health-care law has already increased their costs due to hikes in both the cost of insurance and compliance, according to a recent report from political-research firm Public Opinion Strategies. As a result, many business leaders say they are already making personnel decisions based on the Affordable Care Act.

Among franchised businesses, 27 percent report their company has replaced full-time workers with part-time workers and 31 percent have reduced worker hours. Among non-franchised businesses, 12 percent are replacing full-time workers with part-time workers or reducing hours. This is happening now, with more than a year before the mandate goes into effect; and undoubtedly, these numbers will rise as we approach next July’s “look back” period for tabulating workers’ hours.

It is kind of startling that we are already seeing employers make such big changes even though the employer mandate does not come into effect until 2015.  You can find a very long list of some of the employers that have already either eliminated jobs or cut hours because of Obamacare right here.

Remember, this is just the tip of the iceberg.  Once we get closer to the deadline things are going to get much, much worse.

At a time when the middle class desperately needs jobs, Obamacare is going to slaughter them.

And even if you are able to keep your current job, that does not mean that your health plan will remain the same.  In fact, Forbes is projecting that a staggering 51 percent of all employment-based health insurance plans will be canceled and replaced with new ones.

Overall, Forbes is projecting that an astounding 93 million Americans will eventually lose their current health insurance policies due to Obamacare.

Obamacare: Providing Huge Incentives For Many Americans To Work Less And Make Less Money

Did you know that Obamacare is going to cause millions of Americans to want to keep their incomes under certain levels?

If you make too much money under Obamacare, you will miss out on some absolutely massive health care subsidies.  The following is an excerpt from one of my previous articles

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The figures that you are about to see were calculated using the Kaiser Family Foundation subsidy calculator.  These numbers apply to a husband and a wife that are both 62 years old.

A non-smoking, married couple living in San Francisco, California earning $63,000 a year will have to pay $20,318 a year for a silver plan under Obamacare and $12,647 a year for a bronze plan.

At $63,000, that couple would be making too much money to be eligible for a subsidy, so that couple will have to pay the total cost of whatever plan they choose by themselves.

But if that couple only made $62,000 a year, things would dramatically change.

The plans would still cost the same, but the couple would now be eligible for an Obamacare subsidy of $14,428.

So a silver plan would end up costing them only $5,890, and they would ultimately pay nothing for a bronze plan.

In other words, by reducing their income by $1,000, that couple would save $14,428 if they got a silver plan or they would save $12,647 if they got a bronze plan.

Isn’t that bizarre?

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In the end, millions upon millions of middle class families will decide to go without health insurance entirely for one reason or another.

This will work great until they get into an accident or become seriously ill.

As I have discussed previously, approximately 60 percent of all personal bankruptcies in the United States are related to medical bills.  And most of those bankruptcies actually happen to people that are supposedly “covered” by health insurance.

Obamacare is going to make all of this so much worse.  Millions of middle class families will end up with no health insurance at all, and because so many of them are living paycheck to paycheck a single health emergency will be enough to send them hurtling down the path to financial oblivion.

If you get into an accident, a visit to the emergency room and a single night in the hospital can easily cost tens of thousands of dollars in many areas of the country.

If you get a serious illness such as cancer, the medical bills can be absolutely astronomical.  For instance, there are many cancer patients that rack up medical bills well in excess of a million dollars by the time that they die.

Something desperately needs to be done about our horrible health care system.  Unfortunately, Obamacare is going to make just about everything that is bad about our current system much, much worse.

And the American people are becoming increasingly disgusted and frustrated with Obamacare.  According to Real Clear Politics, an average of recent opinion polls shows that the American people are opposed to Obamacare by an average margin of 14.2 percentage points.

Article submitted by:  Veronica Coffin

Friday, September 27, 2013

Obama Singles Out Fox News for Obamacare Glitches

Video: Obama Singles Out Fox News for Obamacare Glitches

From the man who was willing to negotiate with Russian President Putin, but no the Republicans in Congress

Rand Paul on ObamaCare Battle

Video: Paul: ObamaCare’s Free… and They Still Can’t Sell It

NewsMax:  Sen. Rand Paul: Delaying ObamaCare Would Be a 'Victory'

Delaying the Affordable Care Act for a year would be a "victory" for Congress and the nation, Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul said Thursday.

Paul told "The Steve Malzberg Show" lawmakers have to "do anything we can to stop the monster."

"I’d just as soon get rid of the whole thing but if we can't get rid of the whole thing (at least not now), we ought to do everything we can to make it less bad," he said. ". . . If we can slow down or derail ObamaCare for a year, that would be a victory."

Rand chided President Barack Obama "with his kingly powers" for amending the new healthcare law "after the fact," including subsidies for congressional staffers.

"He isn't asking us about any of these things," Rand said. "This is legislation that he's amending after the fact. It's blatantly unconstitutional, it's illegal, but he just goes right on doing it."

And he praised Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz for his historic 21-hour speech on the Senate floor, saying "it was a great feat of stamina" that "brought a lot of attention to an important problem."

Even some Democrats see "real problems" with the new law, he said.

"The Teamsters Union came out and said, 'look, we're not happy to pay a tax on our good healthcare benefits we have now,'" he noted. "Ex-President Bill Clinton [is] also saying, 'you know what, a lot of people are going to be required to buy this insurance but aren't going to be able to afford it because we're driving the prices up.'" (But as usual, Ex-President Bill Clinton is talking out of both sides of his mouth.  He was also simultaneously attacking Fox News for presenting all sides of the argument as promoting division, rather than educating the voters and presenting a fair and balanced presentation of the facts.)

Rand said whether the Senate passes a continuing resolution with "some modification to ObamaCare" or passes a CR "in the short term and it does nothing . . . I can't, in good conscience, vote to fund ObamaCare."

Monday, September 23, 2013

Senator Ted Cruz Requests Consent to Hold Vote on House-Passed CR [video]

Video:  Sen. Ted Cruz Requests Consent to Hold Vote on House-Passed CR

As usual, Harry Reid is spinning…  He loves to follow the rules when it suits him.  Funny how good he is at circumventing them with they don’t work for him… Like when he (Reid) and Pelosi crammed ObamaCare down the throats of the American people!

“I just love watching the new boys in town scaring the hell out of these antiques!”  TheNova60

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Tea Party vs. Progressives on ObamaCare

By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton - Cross-Posted at Right Wing News, Gateway Pundit and Ask Marion 

You can blend in or blend out — the Tea Party chooses to take a stand and blend out. Leading the fray is Ted Cruz. Sarah Palin has written a kick butt article on Cruz Control. Take a moment and smell the tea:

More and more Americans are waking up to the nightmare of ObamaCare as its rollout continues.

Hardworking families are losing their employer-provided health care coverage. Businesses are cutting back their employees’ hours to skirt ObamaCare's mandates. Americans barely scrapping by are discovering that ObamaCare has made health care completely unaffordable. Those who aren’t part of a protected special interest group have been left in the cold.

When you’re living on a fixed income, having to pay hundreds of dollars more each month for health care will cut into your ability to pay for basic necessities like food, electricity, or gas (which has increased 90% under Obama). Open your eyes, America. When the full reality of ObamaCare strikes home, we’ll thank God that principled leaders like Ted Cruz and Mike Lee took a stand to stop it in its tracks.

But the permanent political class is handwringing and howling that if there’s a government shutdown the media will blame Republicans for it. Here’s a little newsflash, GOP establishment: Whenever anything bad happens, the media blames Republicans for it. That’s not an excuse to roll over and play dead. It’s a call to follow the advice I give my daughters: Woman up, stand your ground, and fight like a girl!

While Democratic Senate Minority Leader and major weasel, Harry Reid, is calling the Tea Party anarchists and telling the Republicans to sit down, shut up and take ObamaCare like good little Marxists, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee are moving forward fighting all the way and threatening a filibuster:

“The Affordable Care Act has been the law of the land for three years,” Reid said. “Democrats stand ready to work with reasonable people who want to improve it, but Republican attempts to take an entire law hostage simply to appease the Tea Party anarchists are outrageous, irresponsible and futile.”

Wait… did he just say resistance is futile? So the Dems are admitting they’re the Borg? Reid can go back to whatever alien planet or hole he calls home and stuff it.

He’s not alone though - witness the Progressive Republicans on the right who are attacking Cruz at every opportunity:

Fox News host Chris Wallace said on Sunday that top Republicans had sent him opposition research throughout the week on Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz.

Many top Republicans are upset that Cruz is threatening to filibuster if Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reinserts funding for ObamaCare, after the House stripped the money from a recently passed continuing resolution bill, Wallace said.

“This has been one of the strangest weeks I’ve ever had in Washington,” Wallace said. “As soon as we listed Ted Cruz as our featured guest this week, I got unsolicited research and questions, not from Democrats but from top Republicans, to hammer Cruz.”

Fox's Wallace Stunned: GOP Establishment Leaders Sent Me Opposition Research on Ted Cruz

Palin Fires at Fox News: 'Keep It TRULY Fair & Balanced,' Name Cruz Critics

We the people are standing with Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and we will remember those who betray us on both sides of the aisle. In closing, take to heart Sarah Palin’s words:

The message only grows stronger. The grassroots is bigger than any one person. We the People will rise up, and we will make our voices heard. Right now, Ted Cruz is speaking for us in this ObamaCare fight. God bless him for it.

Hang in there, Ted and Mike. You have millions of supporters among ordinary hardworking Americans. We support you because you don’t shy away from the fray. May your colleagues in the Senate gain the wisdom to support your excellent efforts so that you can see that the view is better from inside the bus than under it.

Video:  Palin on Cruz Control…

The only ones that should be viewing the underside of the bus are the Progressive Left. Death to ObamaCare.

Video:  Ted Cruz, Mark Levin explain process of defunding ObamaCare - 9/20/13

House votes 230-189 to Fund Government, Defund ObamaCare

Senator Jim DeMint Heritage Action Keynote Address – Defund ObamaCare Rally

Americans petition Congress to Defund ObamaCare

House Speaker John Boehner has a message for President Barack Obama: You’ll negotiate with Russia and not Republicans? [video] – Updated

Truckers Threatening to ‘Shut Down Washington, D.C.’ for Three Days Straight

Saturday, September 21, 2013

House votes 230-189 to Fund Government, Defund ObamaCare

Video: Boehner After the CR Vote -  1:59 Mins

Video: House Bill To Fund Government & Defund ObamaCare Heads To Senate - Sen Ted Cruz Weighs In Cavuto

Video: Nancy Pelosi Very Angry After ObamaCare Defunded in House - September 20, 2013 -  1:14 Minutes

September 20, 2013 - Nancy Pelosi Very Angry After ObamaCare Defunded in House… Too Bad She Wasn’t This Angry About Fairness, the Constitution and the Role of Congress When She and Harry Reid Forced ObamaCare on America! 

And Here’s Nancy just yesterday

 Video: Nancy Pelosi on GOP: Legislative Arsonists are at Work - 1:19 Minutes

Video: Boehner Video 'Mocks' President Obama for Negotiating with Russia, Not Republicans

*The House of Representatives finally listened to the people and passed their stopgap funding bill (today) Friday to keep government open while terminating the new healthcare law, setting up a final showdown next week with Senate Democrats and President Obama who have firmly rejected that.

The 230-189 vote, which split almost exclusively along party lines, is the precursor to the big action next week, when the Senate is expected to strip out the health care provisions and send the bill back to the House — where Republicans will have to decide whether they can accept it at that point.

All sides are racing a Sept. 30 deadline, which is when current government funding runs out. The new measure would fund the government through Dec. 15, essentially at last year’s levels, and would leave the budget sequesters in place.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...

Rep. Michele Bachmann:

Washington, D.C. -- Congresswoman Michele Bachmann released the following statement after voting for a continuing resolution to defund ObamaCare and keep the government open.

“Today the House of Representatives listened to the will of the American people and voted to keep the government open while defunding ObamaCare. The President’s health care law is hurting economic growth, causing cutbacks in jobs and hours, and jacking up insurance premiums. We must save the American people from these disastrous consequences of ObamaCare while still keeping the government open. Even President Obama’s Big Labor allies are trying to exempt themselves from ObamaCare, declaring it will hurt the middle class and erase the 40-hour work week. ObamaCare is completely unworkable and deeply unpopular, and I will continue fighting until this train wreck is defunded once and for all so we can start over with free market, patient-centered health care reforms."

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Please educate yourself and others and don't be fooled by the mainstream media spin that is coming. Former Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, who refused to work with the Republicans during the ObamaCare creation cycle, has already been spinning all afternoon!, actually for two days now!! The House has passed a budget bill 'with funding for everything' that our government needs to function, except ObamaCare, a program that will ultimately bankrupt us and destroy our quality of healthcare. The Administration will do everything to point the finger and push blame for shutting down our government on the Republicans (GOP). Don't be fooled, the only way the government gets shut down is if President Obama and his puppet Harry Reid cause it. The House "and the so-called bad negative Republicans" have passed a full budget bill while creating a way to open discussion on compromise and to make improvements on ObamaCare", not shutdown the government. It will be President Obama and the Democrats who chose to shut down the government, if that happens.

The goal is and always has been to force businesses to dump their employees into the ObamaCare Exchanges; ultimately creating a single payer system… Socialized Medicine! But not for the elite… Congress, Judges, the Executive Branch Employees, federal employees as a whole, friends of the elite and the Progressive system and the rich will have great healthcare, as good or better than they have or had before, but the average American They will be forced into socialized medicine run by government officials where they, and not the doctors  and health professionals, make decisions on treatments and treatment qualification… while 30-Million of the poor will still not have healthcare. But you can bet that illegal aliens and their kids will.

The unions finally figured that out and began speaking up… But last week their leaders left the White House smiling after a private meeting; any guesses as to why?

ObamaCare will guarantee that there will be two classes… and ObamaCare has been written so that the government will be involved in every aspect of American life!  This opportunity, that the House Republicans fought for, might be the last chance for Americans to stand-up and fight against this.

Just this week, both Home Depot and the Cleveland Clinic, that Obama has used as an example for his side, have announced that they will be dumping employees, either into the exchanges or laying people off, to prepare for the implementation of ObamaCare.  So you be the judge~

And the Republicans… they do want to negotiate!!!!

Don't be played!!

52%+ of Americans polled want ObamaCare Defunded completely. 72% are not happy with ObamaCare (and the number is growing) and they want changes if the program remains law. 30-Million Americans will still be without healthcare after this expensive disaster goes into affect. And members of the Federal Government and their friends will not have ObamaCare as their healthcare system; they will retain their Cadillac plans.

If you do not want ObamaCare and you want the Democrats in the Senate to work with the House, contact your Senator (and President Obama)… Senate List Below:

Senators of the 113th Congress

Alexander, Lamar - (R - TN)
Class II

455 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-4944

Contact: www.alexander.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Email

Ayotte, Kelly - (R - NH)
Class III

144 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-3324

Contact: www.ayotte.senate.gov/?p=contact

Baldwin, Tammy - (D - WI)
Class I

717 HART WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-5653

Contact: www.baldwin.senate.gov/contact

Barrasso, John - (R - WY)
Class I

307 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-6441

Contact: www.barrasso.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Conta...

Baucus, Max - (D - MT)
Class II

511 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-2651

Contact: www.baucus.senate.gov/contact/emailForm.cfm?subj=issue

Begich, Mark - (D - AK)
Class II

111 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-3004

Contact: www.begich.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=EmailSenator

Bennet, Michael F. - (D - CO)
Class III

458 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-5852

Contact: www.bennet.senate.gov/contact/

Blumenthal, Richard - (D - CT)
Class III

724 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-2823

Contact: www.blumenthal.senate.gov/contact/

Blunt, Roy - (R - MO)
Class III

260 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-5721

Contact: www.blunt.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact-form?p=cont...

Boozman, John - (R - AR)
Class III

320 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-4843

Contact: www.boozman.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me

Boxer, Barbara - (D - CA)
Class III

112 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-3553

Contact: www.boxer.senate.gov/en/contact/

Brown, Sherrod - (D - OH)
Class I

713 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-2315

Contact: www.brown.senate.gov/contact/

Burr, Richard - (R - NC)
Class III

217 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-3154

Contact: www.burr.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.C...

Cantwell, Maria - (D - WA)
Class I

311 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-3441

Contact: www.cantwell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/email-maria

Cardin, Benjamin L. - (D - MD)
Class I

509 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-4524

Contact: www.cardin.senate.gov/contact/

Carper, Thomas R. - (D - DE)
Class I

513 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-2441

Contact: carper.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/email-senator-carper

Casey, Robert P., Jr. - (D - PA)
Class I

393 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-6324

Contact: www.casey.senate.gov/contact/email-bob

Chambliss, Saxby - (R - GA)
Class II

416 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-3521

Contact: www.chambliss.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Email

Chiesa, Jeff - (R - NJ)
Class II

141 HART WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-3224

Contact: www.chiesa.senate.gov/contact.cfm

Coats, Daniel - (R - IN)
Class III

493 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-5623

Contact: www.coats.senate.gov/contact/

Coburn, Tom - (R - OK)
Class III

172 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-5754

Contact: www.coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contactsenatorcobu...

Cochran, Thad - (R - MS)
Class II

113 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-5054

Contact: www.cochran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/email-me

Collins, Susan M. - (R - ME)
Class II

413 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-2523

Contact: www.collins.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/email

Coons, Christopher A. - (D - DE)
Class II

127A RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-5042

Contact: www.coons.senate.gov/contact/

Corker, Bob - (R - TN)
Class I

425 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-3344

Contact: www.corker.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=ContactMe

Cornyn, John - (R - TX)
Class II

517 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-2934

Contact: www.cornyn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=ContactForm

Crapo, Mike - (R - ID)
Class III

239 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-6142

Contact: www.crapo.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm

Cruz, Ted - (R - TX)
Class I

185 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-5922

Contact: www.cruz.senate.gov/contact.cfm

Donnelly, Joe - (D - IN)
Class I

720 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-4814

Contact: www.donnelly.senate.gov/contact/email-joe

Durbin, Richard J. - (D - IL)
Class II

711 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-2152

Contact: www.durbin.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact

Enzi, Michael B. - (R - WY)
Class II

379A RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-3424

Contact: www.enzi.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact?p=e-mail-sen...

Feinstein, Dianne - (D - CA)
Class I

331 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-3841

Contact: www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me

Fischer, Deb - (R - NE)
Class I

383 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-6551

Contact: www.fischer.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact

Flake, Jeff - (R - AZ)
Class I

368 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-4521

Contact: www.flake.senate.gov/contact.cfm

Franken, Al - (D - MN)
Class II

309 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-5641

Contact: www.franken.senate.gov/?p=contact

Gillibrand, Kirsten E. - (D - NY)
Class I

478 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-4451

Contact: www.gillibrand.senate.gov/contact/

Graham, Lindsey - (R - SC)
Class II

290 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-5972

Contact: lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.La...

Grassley, Chuck - (R - IA)
Class III

135 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-3744

Contact: www.grassley.senate.gov/contact/contact.cfm

Hagan, Kay R. - (D - NC)
Class II

521 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-6342

Contact: www.hagan.senate.gov/?p=contact

Harkin, Tom - (D - IA)
Class II

731 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-3254

Contact: www.harkin.senate.gov/contact.cfm

Hatch, Orrin G. - (R - UT)
Class I

104 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-5251

Contact: www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact?p=Email-Orrin

Heinrich, Martin - (D - NM)
Class I

702 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-5521

Contact: www.heinrich.senate.gov/contact

Heitkamp, Heidi - (D - ND)
Class I

502 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-2043

Contact: www.heitkamp.senate.gov/contact.cfm

Heller, Dean - (R - NV)
Class I

324 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-6244

Contact: www.heller.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact-form

Hirono, Mazie K. - (D - HI)
Class I

330 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-6361

Contact: www.hirono.senate.gov/contact

Hoeven, John - (R - ND)
Class III

338 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-2551

Contact: www.hoeven.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/email-the-senator

Inhofe, James M. - (R - OK)
Class II

205 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-4721

Contact: www.inhofe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact...

Isakson, Johnny - (R - GA)
Class III

131 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-3643

Contact: www.isakson.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/email-me

Johanns, Mike - (R - NE)
Class II

404 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-4224

Contact: www.johanns.senate.gov/public/?p=ContactSenatorJohanns

Johnson, Ron - (R - WI)
Class III

328 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-5323

Contact: www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact

Johnson, Tim - (D - SD)
Class II

136 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-5842

Contact: www.johnson.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Contact

Kaine, Tim - (D - VA)
Class I

388 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-4024

Contact: www.kaine.senate.gov/contact

King, Angus S., Jr. - (I - ME)
Class I

359 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-5344

Contact: www.king.senate.gov/contact

Kirk, Mark - (R - IL)
Class III

524 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-2854

Contact: www.kirk.senate.gov/?p=contact

Klobuchar, Amy - (D - MN)
Class I

302 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-3244

Contact: www.klobuchar.senate.gov/emailamy.cfm

Landrieu, Mary L. - (D - LA)
Class II

703 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-5824

Contact: www.landrieu.senate.gov/?p=contact

Leahy, Patrick J. - (D - VT)
Class III

437 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-4242

Contact: www.leahy.senate.gov/contact/

Lee, Mike - (R - UT)
Class III

316 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-5444

Contact: www.lee.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact

Levin, Carl - (D - MI)
Class II

269 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-6221

Contact: www.levin.senate.gov/contact/

Manchin, Joe, III - (D - WV)
Class I

306 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-3954

Contact: www.manchin.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact-form

Markey, Edward J. - (D - MA)
Class II

218 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-2742

Contact: www.markey.senate.gov/contact.cfm

McCain, John - (R - AZ)
Class III

241 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-2235

Contact: www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact...

McCaskill, Claire - (D - MO)
Class I

506 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-6154

Contact: www.mccaskill.senate.gov/?p=contact

McConnell, Mitch - (R - KY)
Class II

317 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-2541

Contact: www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=contact

Menendez, Robert - (D - NJ)
Class I

528 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-4744

Contact: menendez.senate.gov/contact/

Merkley, Jeff - (D - OR)
Class II

313 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-3753

Contact: www.merkley.senate.gov/contact/

Mikulski, Barbara A. - (D - MD)
Class III

503 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-4654

Contact: www.mikulski.senate.gov/contact/

Moran, Jerry - (R - KS)
Class III

361A RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-6521

Contact: moran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-jerry

Murkowski, Lisa - (R - AK)
Class III

709 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-6665

Contact: www.murkowski.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Contact

Murphy, Christopher - (D - CT)
Class I

303 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-4041

Contact: www.murphy.senate.gov/contact.cfm

Murray, Patty - (D - WA)
Class III

154 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-2621

Contact: www.murray.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contactme

Nelson, Bill - (D - FL)
Class I

716 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-5274

Contact: www.billnelson.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm

Paul, Rand - (R - KY)
Class III

124 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-4343

Contact: www.paul.senate.gov/?p=contact

Portman, Rob - (R - OH)
Class III

448 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-3353

Contact: www.portman.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact?p=contact...

Pryor, Mark L. - (D - AR)
Class II

255 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-2353

Contact: www.pryor.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=ContactMe

Reed, Jack - (D - RI)
Class II

728 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-4642

Contact: www.reed.senate.gov/contact/

Reid, Harry - (D - NV)
Class III

522 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-3542

Contact: www.reid.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm

Risch, James E. - (R - ID)
Class II

483 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-2752

Contact: www.risch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Email

Roberts, Pat - (R - KS)
Class II

109 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-4774

Contact: www.roberts.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=EmailPat

Rockefeller, John D., IV - (D - WV)
Class II

531 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-6472

Contact: www.rockefeller.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/email-jay

Rubio, Marco - (R - FL)
Class III

284 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-3041

Contact: www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact

Sanders, Bernard - (I - VT)
Class I

332 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-5141

Contact: www.sanders.senate.gov/contact/

Schatz, Brian - (D - HI)
Class III

722 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-3934

Contact: www.schatz.senate.gov/contact.cfm

Schumer, Charles E. - (D - NY)
Class III

322 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-6542

Contact: www.schumer.senate.gov/Contact/contact_chuck.cfm

Scott, Tim - (R - SC)
Class III

167 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-6121

Contact: www.scott.senate.gov/contact/email-me

Sessions, Jeff - (R - AL)
Class II

326 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-4124

Contact: www.sessions.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Const...

Shaheen, Jeanne - (D - NH)
Class II

520 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-2841

Contact: www.shaheen.senate.gov/contact/

Shelby, Richard C. - (R - AL)
Class III

304 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-5744

Contact: www.shelby.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/emailsenatorshelby

Stabenow, Debbie - (D - MI)
Class I

133 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-4822

Contact: www.stabenow.senate.gov/?p=contact

Tester, Jon - (D - MT)
Class I

706 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-2644

Contact: www.tester.senate.gov/Contact/index.cfm

Thune, John - (R - SD)
Class III

511 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-2321

Contact: www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact

Toomey, Patrick J. - (R - PA)
Class III

248 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-4254

Contact: www.toomey.senate.gov/?p=contact

Udall, Mark - (D - CO)
Class II

730 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-5941

Contact: www.markudall.senate.gov/?p=contact

Udall, Tom - (D - NM)
Class II

110 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-6621

Contact: www.tomudall.senate.gov/?p=contact

Vitter, David - (R - LA)
Class III

516 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-4623

Contact: www.vitter.senate.gov/contact

Warner, Mark R. - (D - VA)
Class II

475 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-2023

Contact: www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Contact

Warren, Elizabeth - (D - MA)
Class I

317 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-4543

Contact: www.warren.senate.gov/?p=email_senator

Whitehouse, Sheldon - (D - RI)
Class I

530 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-2921

Contact: www.whitehouse.senate.gov/contact/

Wicker, Roger F. - (R - MS)
Class I

555 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-6253

Contact: www.wicker.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact

Wyden, Ron - (D - OR)
Class III

221 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-5244

Contact: www.wyden.senate.gov/contact/

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