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Senate Parliamentarian Blocks Defunding Of Planned Parenthood
Daily Wire, Jul 23, 2017, Hank Berrien

On Friday night, Elizabeth MacDonough, the Senate parliamentarian, made damn sure that defunding of Planned Parenthood will not be part of the Senate health care bill, citing the Byrd rule to stipulate that the key provisions violated Senate rules. MacDonough advised then-Vice President Albert Gore on the procedure for counting ballots following Bush v. Gore.

Senator Bernie Sanders chortled, “The parliamentarian’s decision today proves once again that the process Republicans have undertaken to repeal the Affordable Care Act and throw 22 million Americans off of health insurance is a disaster.”

It is now clear the Senate’s version of a new health care bill will not defund Planned Parenthood, as it would require 60 votes in the Senate to implement such an action. Here’s what was stated by the Senate Budget Committee Minority Staff regarding background on the Byrd Rule Decisions:


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Re: Senate Parliamentarian Blocks Defunding Of Planned Parenthood
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2017, 09:57:35 am »
Democrats don't need a stinkin' majority to be in charge. 

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Re: Senate Parliamentarian Blocks Defunding Of Planned Parenthood
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2017, 12:23:59 pm »
Not the first time she has done this to keep Obamacare

During the 2015 congressional effort to partially repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), MacDonough ruled the provision that would roll back the Independent Payment Advisory Board disqualified the 2015 package from consideration as a reconciliation bill in the Senate under the Byrd Rule, which requires that reconciliation bills must have a budgetary effect. Rather than the simple, filibuster-free 51-vote majority required to pass a reconciliation bill, the 2015 package would require a 60-vote threshold to pass in the Senate, which effectively killed the legislation in the Senate, as Republicans did not hold the requisite votes

Mike Pence has the ability to fire her is he desires.
No punishment, in my opinion, is too great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country's ruin~  George Washington