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Old 03-20-2010, 08:27 PM
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House Approves Legislation to Protect Tricare
March 20, 2010

Washington, D.C.—Today, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) delivered the statement below on the House floor urging his colleagues to support his legislation, H.R. 4887, which would explicitly state that TRICARE and nonappropriated fund (NAF) health plans meet all of the health care requirements for individual health insurance currently under consideration by Congress (watch video of the floor statement here: (edited here and provided at end of statement). While beneficiaries of these programs will already meet the minimum requirements for individual health insurance and will not be required to purchase additional coverage, the TRICARE Affirmation Act would provide clarification by changing the tax code to state it in law. The bill was approved by a vote of 403 to 0.

Link to above press release here:

http://armedservices.house.gov/press_releases.shtml

Final count found here:

http://www.opencongress.org/vote/2010/h/152


Video of House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-MO) introducing House Resolution 4887 found here in link below.

The video link opened on my Windows media player. If the video plays for a minute and stops just hit play on your media player.

Link to video found here:

http://armedservices.house.gov/video...ffirmation.wmv
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Old 03-20-2010, 08:29 PM
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Arrow Agreement, Objections and concerns by the minority party:

Agreement, Objections and concerns by the minority party:
Committee on Armed Services

Republicans -- Howard P. "Buck" McKeon, Ranking Member

Encourages White House and House Democrats to Demand Senate Action on H.R. 4887

Washington, D.C.—Following the revelation that the final health care legislation being rushed through Congress by President Obama and Congressional Democrats might force military personnel to either buy new health insurance or pay a penalty, Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-CA) today joined the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee in supporting legislation which states explicitly that Department of Defense health care coverage meets the threshold for minimal essential coverage.

McKeon—during his speech on the House floor—applauded Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Missouri) for addressing the concerns of many in the Republican Conference, but he criticized Congressional Democrats for not fixing the underlying health care legislation. During his remarks, he pointed out that Democrat leaders in the Senate have not given any assurances that they will consider and pass H.R. 4887.

Link to full text of announcement found here:

http://republicans.armedservices.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=952
 
Video of Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-CA) announcing his support and stating his concerns:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H0r6lE89h8

The Full House Discussion is here and to me worth watching as it also includes statements by house democrats that are concerned about the issue.
 
You can watch the full house discussion below by going to the link provided for c-span video posted below. Go to the transcript provided near the center of that page. The transcript plays the video by segment or completly through. A scroll function is provided there on the transcript that will allow you to scroll to time location, a mouse click will play the video from the beginning of the segement to the vote on H.R. 4887.

02:44:09 MR. LEVIN MR. SPEAKER, UNDER H.R. 3590, AS PASSED BY THE SENATE, INDIVIDUALS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OBTAINING.

Discussion goes through to the vote....

0412 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE ON THIS VOTE THE YEAS ARE 403. THE NAYS ARE ZERO. 2/3 HAVING RESPONDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, THE RULES

The House goes on with the next order of business until a parliamentary inquiry is made which is worth listening to.

Important parliamentary inquiry begins a few segments after the vote at:

0443 -THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE GENTLEMAN

Runs through

0407- THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE MEMBERS MAY CONSULT THE RELEVANT LEGISLATIVE TEXT AND COME TO THEIR OWN CONCLSIONS

The rest of video concerns subject matter other than Tricare and Tricare for Life.

Video and transcript link here:

 
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/292628-101

This doesn't mean we are out of the woods. Not even close.

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The House on Sunday will finally vote for the Democrats' comprehensive health care overhaul.


On Saturday, the House Rules Committee laid out the terms for Sunday's vote, most notably deciding to abandon the so-called "Slaughter solution" and take two separate votes on the Senate health care bill and the reconciliation "fix it" bill. If the House passes both bills, President Obama will sign the Senate bill into law, and then the Senate will vote on the reconciliation bill.




Here is a rough estimate of the timing for Sunday's votes:

2 p.m.: The House will debate for one hour the rules of debate for the reconciliation bill and the Senate bill.

3 p.m.: The House will vote to end debate and vote on the rules of the debate.

3:15 p.m.: The House will debate the reconciliation package for two hours.

5:15 p.m.: The House will vote on the reconciliation package.

5:30 p.m.: The House will debate for 15 minutes on a Republican substitute and then vote on the substitute.

6 p.m.: The House will vote on the final reconciliation package.

6:15 p.m.: If the reconciliation bill passes, the House will immediately vote on the Senate bill, without debate.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_1...40-503544.html
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