Rep. Dan Lungren, More “Miss Than Hit” in the Obamacare Repeal Battle? (Part 2)
February 15, 2012 at 4:26 pm in Accountability, Daniel E. Lungren, GAN, House, News by Sue Hokana 10 Comments
In Part 1, we reviewed Rep. Lungren’s (R-CA3) legislative leadership on repealing Obamacare. Robert Ehlert, a member of Rep. Lungren’s Gold River office staff, promised to obtain a brief overview of the Congressman’s perspectives regarding the repeal bill HR 21, “Reclaiming Individual Liberty Act” from their legislative analyst in Washington D.C. H.R. 21 would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the mandate that individuals purchase health insurance.
During the next six weeks Mr. Ehlert apologized for delays in their response implying the analyst was too busy to provide this constituent service.
Finally, the HR 21 response arrived by email: “…[Rep Lungren] has been a leading resounding voice calling for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act….”. Other than his big HR 4 victory, there was no mention of Rep. Lungren’s other repeal activities in his website’s print archive.
The response continues: “…The Congressman signed on to an amicus brief, filed in the current U.S. Supreme Court health care reform case….in the event [the Court] finds certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act to be unconstitutional, the brief asks the Supreme Court to consider whether the Court should sever the constitutional portions of the Affordable Care Act from the unconstitutional provisions or instead strike down the entirety of the law.”
A copy of the amicus brief was not provided nor could it be found on the Congressman’s official website. Fortunately, the American Bar Association website confirms that both Reps. Lungren and McClintock were listed. Text available at http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/supreme_court_preview/briefs/11-393_petitioneramcuaclj-117congressmbrs-andacljsupporters.authcheckdam.pdf.
The Congressman’s staff failed to explain his position on HR 21. It appears it may not be an easy task to constructively engage with Rep. Lungren’s staff when the topic strays away from their standard talking points.
In addition, the analyst’s response pointed to a completely passive “wait and see” approach, apparently in alignment with that of House Speaker Boehner’s inaction on Obamacare given the huge backlog of repeal bills.
Rep. Lungren will be running for office in the newly remapped 7th Congressional District which comprises the communities of Herald, Elk Grove, Wilton, Rancho Murieta, Fair Oaks, Carmichael, Orangevale, Gold River, and Folsom.
According to Jared Kopp, Executive Director for the Sacramento County Republican Party), “…I haven’t heard of any Republican candidates running against Rep. Lungren in June but Democrat Dr. Ami Bera has promised to run against him again….it was a close race last time”. Dr. Ami Bera’s website advocates for a healthcare delivery system which appears similar to Obamacare.
If Virginia Attorney General Cuccinelli is correct, time is running out to indirectly influence the U.S. Supreme Court by demonstrating a House momentum on repeal bills. Obamacare may become the permanent law of the land unless Tea Parties get assertive with their representatives in the coming weeks.
Submitted on 2/15/12 by:
Sue Hokana
Tea Party Patriot Citizen Journalist
sue.hokana@tppjournalism.org
Contact Rep. Lungren at: 916-859-9906, http://lungren.house.gov
Elk Grove Tea Party Patriots (located near Sacramento): 916-494-2626 or elkgrovetpp@aol.com
Source Material for Article:
Redistricting maps: http://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/downloads/meeting_handouts_082011/map_20110815_ap_cd_7_certified.pdf
Sacramento County Republican Party: http://saccountygop.com/gop/
Dr. Ami Bera: http://www.beraforcongress.com/pages/healthcare/
How silly. The best thing about healthcare for all is that our children and grandchildren will be entitled to healthcare. To not provide healthcare for all will be to deprive our children and the next generations with soaring costs and no ability to face the future.
How silly. The doctors will be so underpaid, there wont be any.
How silly. Your children and grandchildren are entitled only to a free market that will provide whatever health care they choose to purchase. If they can’t face the future, well, that’s a few less dependents to feed off the rest of us.
What is silly is to equate “free” health insurance with quality health CARE.
Obama Care doesn’t provide health care for our children, our grandchildren, or anybody else. Obama Care (and Romney care) was never meant to improve healthcare for any of us. It was intended to force us to make the entire healthcare industry richer and the rest of us sicker.
If we get cancer, our medical professionals must operate (chop us up), radiate us (permanently killing healthy cells), and chemotherapy (therapy not cure).
These treatments will not cure us, but, will kill us. 95% of all cancer patients die, not of cancer, but the complications of treatment. Complications of treatment is really the treatment that kills cancer patients.
Those who passed this Bill (not law) will be guilty of mass murder from this day forward.
The only way to fix this is to get out to vote and vote out all incumbents.
Wake Up America…
Selfish. I get most of my healthcare free from the VA due to having been in the Navy. We can’t find affordable healthcare, unless we could actually live without eating and paying other bills, so my husband and children aren’t covered since we also fall between the proverbial cracks and make just enough to not be eligible for any state and/or federal program. Our youngest son was viciously attacked last summer and is still recovering. So stop calling fair care Obamacare, you are all so selfish.
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IN THE EVENT THAT ROMoNEY SUCCEEDS IN BUYING THE NOMINATION , OBAMA WILL PULVERIZE HIM . OBAMA PROBABLY HAS THESE SAME LINKS IN A SAFE PLACE !
IT WOULD BE A SLAM DUNK AND WE’LL HAVE 4 MORE YEARS OF OBAMA.
THIS IS WHY , pay attention voters . this election is IT !
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All I see with Obamacare is a few two thousand dollar government toilets!
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