OBAMA WILL SIGN HEALTH BILL ON TUESDAY
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says President Obama will sign the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Tuesday, two days after the House passed the legislation in a party-line vote. The President on Sunday acknowledged that the bill was surrounded by controversy, but applauded the House for acting on one of his signature campaign promises. "This is what change looks like," Mr. Obama said. "I know this wasn't an easy vote for a lot of people. But it was the right vote."
A package of fixes to the larger bill now heads to the Senate where Republicans may use parliamentary tactics that could send the legislation back to the House. Secretary Sebelius told Fox and Friends that despite Republican accusations that the legislation was crafted by the White House and Democrats behind closed doors "they were in the room for months." She added that many GOP ideas were included in the bill, "This is an improvement over the Senate bill and hopefully it will be a bipartisan effort to make the bill better."
PRAYER POINT:
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says President Obama will sign the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Tuesday, two days after the House passed the legislation in a party-line vote. The President on Sunday acknowledged that the bill was surrounded by controversy, but applauded the House for acting on one of his signature campaign promises. "This is what change looks like," Mr. Obama said. "I know this wasn't an easy vote for a lot of people. But it was the right vote."
A package of fixes to the larger bill now heads to the Senate where Republicans may use parliamentary tactics that could send the legislation back to the House. Secretary Sebelius told Fox and Friends that despite Republican accusations that the legislation was crafted by the White House and Democrats behind closed doors "they were in the room for months." She added that many GOP ideas were included in the bill, "This is an improvement over the Senate bill and hopefully it will be a bipartisan effort to make the bill better."
PRAYER POINT:
- Offer praise that, in spite of the president's signature on this bill tomorrow, this is not yet a "done deal." The bill now goes to the Senate, where more procedural moves may be scheduled to block it or refine it. . . When the Founding Fathers built our nation with three branches of government, in a system of true checks and balances, they were using divine wisdom. Pray that our Almighty God, moving in the hearts of the members of the United States Senate, would still move to block the implementation of this wicked and disastrous piece of legislation.
- Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, Who write misfortune, Which they have prescribed . . . (Isaiah 10:1)
- Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, Who write misfortune, Which they have prescribed . . . (Isaiah 10:1)
(from Capitol Hill Prayer Partners)
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