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Burr: ObamaCare, Keystone XL
Story Date: 3/2/2015
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Source: Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), 2/27/15
President vetoes Energy Bill:
The President has vetoed Congress’s first jobs bill of 2015, the Keystone XL Pipeline Approval Act. The legislation is a bipartisan, commonsense measure that garnered support with the American people and was granted a favorable ruling by the President’s State Department. It passed both chambers with overwhelming bipartisan support -- 62 to 36 in the Senate and 266 to 153 in the House.
It's clear from the President's first veto that he has no intention on working with Congress to create jobs here at home.
My replacement for Obamacare:
Monday, Senator Hatch, Representative Upton, and I sent a letter to the nation’s governors seeking feedback on our recently released Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility, and Empowerment (CARE) Act. The Patient CARE Act is a patient-focused legislative blueprint that devolves power from Washington to empower families, small businesses, and states.
We believe health care reform will be most successful when accomplished in a transparent and inclusive manner, which is why we want to hear directly from the states. You can ready more about our letter and about the Patient CARE Act here.
The Patient CARE Act, which would replace Obamacare, also received an excellent write-up in the President's home town paper, calling it “the best blueprint we’ve seen.” The Chicago Tribune went on to say “Their proposal, called the Patient CARE Act, strips away much of Obamacare's overreach… Individual responsibility would be rewarded… Consumers would have more flexibility in choosing insurance.” They ended the article saying “Burr-Hatch-Upton could be the framework for Plan B, as in bipartisan.”
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