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Pete Kasperowicz The Hill 11/12/2013 Forty House Republicans filed a brief last week in support of a legal challenge against ObamaCare that argues the law imposes billions of dollars in new taxes but did not originate in the House, as tax bills must under the Constitution. Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) spearheaded the effort by filing […] November 13th, 2013 | Tags: Amicus Curiae, House of Representatives, Origination Clause, Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), Rep. Trent Franks, Sen. David Vitter, Sen. Tom Harkin, Sissel v United States Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Court of Appeals for DC, U.S. Senate | Category: US Constitution | Comments are closed
Tax legislation has to originate in the House; the health-care law didn’t.
Andrew McCarthy National Review Online 10/5/2013 …What Obamacare always needed was a political reversal in Congress. Thus, it was unwise for Republicans to become passive while hoping the justices would do their heavy lifting for them — both because it was unlikely […] October 5th, 2013 | Tags: 'marriage penalty', Chief Justice John Roberts, H.R. 153, Origination Clause, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), Rep. Trent Franks, Separation of Powers, social engineering | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, Health Care, legislation, Progressives, SCOTUS, Socialism, Taxes, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Valerie Richardson The Washington Times 3/31/2013 “Obamacare” looks increasingly inevitable, but one lawsuit making its way through the court system could pull the plug on the sweeping federal health care law. A challenge filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation contends that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional because the bill originated in the Senate, not […] April 1st, 2013 | Tags: H.R. 3590, Origination Clause, Pacific Legal Foundation, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), Service Members Home Ownership Act, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia | Category: Congress, Department of Justice, Health Care, SCOTUS, Taxes, US Constitution | Comments are closed
One unnamed Senate staffer even speculated that the House’s fealty to the Constitution “may be part of some Republican plan.” Harry Reid’s Senate seems to think so. Michael G. Franc National Review Online 5/25/2012 It’s one of the clearest, easiest-to-understand provisions in the Constitution. And Harry Reid’s Senate flouts it routinely. The Origination […] May 27th, 2012 | Tags: "Diversity Czar" Mark Lloyd, "The Buffett Rule", Chief Justice John Roberts, class warfare, Elizabeth Price Foley, House of Representatives, individual mandate, John Brennan, Origination Clause, Paying a Fair Share Act of 2012, rule of law, Sen. Harry Reid, Senate | Category: Congress, Founding Fathers, Politics, Progressives, SCOTUS, Student Loans, Taxes, Tea Parties, US Constitution | Comments are closed
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