Or maybe older, sicker people can just turn in their cell phones.
IOKIYAR! It explains everything.
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), the leader of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus, was one of very few who had an answer ready. He argued to reporters that because D.C. is not a state, it cannot apply for or receive the same waivers states can under their bill.
âIf Speaker Ryan is Governor of the state of D.C., yes, I might be able to get an exemption,â he joked. âI donât worry that Washington D.C. is going to be a state while Iâm in Congress and so me getting a waiver based on Washington D.C. being a state is something that has less than a one percent chance of happening, I mean weâve got bigger problems.â
GooglesâŚ
nope,no response from either Mayor Bowser or Eleanor Holmes-Norton yet.
âFreedom Caucus chair Mark Meadows now says he is 100% confident this exemption will be taken out of the bill.â
He went on to say, âOf course, we would not have to do that if it had not been for some snoopy âFake Newsâ reporters blabbing to everyone. Geez.â
If I waited for a live townhall, I would be waiting a loooong time since my representative did not hold any during the break!
Neither did mine.
Jeb Hensarling did a phone in town hall.
âRugged Individualism.â
And bootstrapsâDonât forget the bootstraps!
Repubs put the provision that they would be in the ACA in the first place, thinking it would be a poison pill that Dems wouldnât like. Surprise! The Dems were fine with it, and now Congress is all in the ACA.
They want to back to what we had before, where they got the best and the rest of us had to have the crappy stuff. Typical Repubs.
Bill Flores did a telephone townhall with no questions allowed. Cowards!
" âŚphone inâŚ"
So, âPhoning It Inâ is the new representation. Yikes!
TWEEDLE-DEE, tweedle-deeâŚTrump
Come-on GUYS, do your JOBâŚLOL
O YESâŚplease explainâŚHOW TO GOVERN.
The only actions this INCOMPETENT bunch know about is pulling the plug on other peopleâs efforts or how to SAY NO. If itâs not about obstruction, itâs not in their wheelhouse.
Like the ant said to the grasshopper, put some clothes on dude.
Listen up kidsâŚDO YOUR JOBS.
Since these exemptions apply on the state level it will be people in Red States who get screwed, while their Reps enjoy the full protections of the original ACA. Maybe folks in those states should reconsider which party they want to see running things.
Chickenshit mofos.
When did that idiot learn to use a phone?
Even the author of the amendment in question, Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-NJ), had to be warned on the elevator ride down to the conference meeting
While Cook has the district as a borderline purple (r+2), MacArthur has âAnderson Silva moneyâ (heâs the richest member of the NJ Congressional delegation) to throw at any challenger.
Those funds were the primary reason why he was able to beat Belgard in '14.
Side-note: Trump won/flipped that district (it went for 44 in '08 n '12) by 6 in '16.
The answer is easy. The House is about to hose 20-30 million Americans. They donât want to be hosed. They are special.
folks can get around that.