{"id":14337,"date":"2013-03-07T14:58:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T19:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/?p=14337"},"modified":"2017-01-24T17:20:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T22:20:44","slug":"foreign-made-ball-bearings-defunded-but-the-hhs-mandate-is-paid-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2013\/03\/foreign-made-ball-bearings-defunded-but-the-hhs-mandate-is-paid-for.html","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Made Ball Bearings Defunded, But the HHS Mandate is Paid For"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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It worked in 2011. Why mess with success?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

So much for the idea of using religious liberty as a bargaining chip in the sequester embroglio. Lost in all the excitement of Rand Paul\u2019s filibuster in the Senate<\/a>, CNS News<\/em> reminds us that the Republican controlled House chugged along with business as usual.<\/p>\n

\u00a0(CNSNews.com) \u2013 The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted 267-151 on Wednesday to approve a $982-billion continuing resolution (CR) to fund the federal government through the rest of fiscal 2013 that fully funds the implementation of Obamacare during that period.<\/p>\n

The House Republican leaders turned aside requests from groups of conservative members to include language in the bill that would have withheld funding for implementation of all of Obamacare, or, alternatively, that would have withheld funding for the Obamacare regulation that requires health-plans to provide cost-free coverage for sterilizations, contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And skipping to the good part,<\/p>\n

The Republican leaders did not include language in their CR to reverse this regulation\u2013even though Boehner himself had declared in a House floor speech on Feb. 8, 2012 that the regulation was a violation of the constitutional right to freedom of religion and that Congress would not let it stand.<\/p>\n

The Roman Catholic bishops of the United States have unanimously declared that the sterilization-contraception-abortifacient regulation\u2013whose enforcement will now be carried out with funds approved by the Republican-controlled House\u2013is an \u201cunjust and illegal mandate\u201d that violates the \u201cpersonal civil rights\u201d of individual Americans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good news though! They made headway on putting the kabosh on government funding for foreign made ball bearings!<\/p>\n

While the Republican-controlled House did not use the must-pass CR to defund or reverse any part of Obamacare, it did use the CR to accomplish other priorities through defunding.<\/p>\n

For example, it prohibited the purchase of foreign-made ball bearings. \u201cNone of the funds appropriated by this Act may be used for the procurement of ball and roller bearings other than those produced by a domestic source and of domestic origin,\u201d says the CR.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Patriots, like a Boss. Think of all the good that could be done if Republicans dominated the House with an overwhelming majority. Oh, wait.<\/p>\n

Of the 151 members of the House who voted against this CR, only 14 were Republicans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the entire <\/a>story.<\/p>\n

Keep the gravy train rolling, guys.<\/p>\n

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So much for the idea of using religious liberty as a bargaining chip in the sequester embroglio. Lost in all the excitement of Rand Paul\u2019s filibuster in the Senate, CNS News reminds us that the Republican controlled House chugged along with business as usual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,36,37],"tags":[87,964,148,31,102],"class_list":["post-14337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-living","category-working","tag-economics","tag-government-budget","tag-hhs-mandate","tag-in-the-news","tag-politics"],"yoast_head":"\nForeign Made Ball Bearings Defunded, But the HHS Mandate is Paid For<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"So much for the idea of using religious liberty as a bargaining chip in the sequester embroglio. 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