Mar 5, 2014
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While the president once again makes changes to his signature legislative achievement, House Republicans continue targeting the health care law, casting their 50TH vote today to tweak it since seizing majority control in 2011.
The vote passed 250 to 160 with 27 Democrats crossing the aisle to vote with the GOP majority.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said the bill, known formally as “Suspending the Individual Mandate Penalty Law Equals Fairness Act,” would enact a one-year delay of Affordable Care Act‘s individual mandate, changing the penalty for failing to buy health insurance from $95, or one percent of income, to zero.
“Hardworking Americans are struggling under the president’s health care bill. They don’t need to see one percent of their salary taxed because they can’t navigate a failing Obamacare bureaucracy,” Cantor, R-Va., said today.
The vote comes as the president’s administration acted unilaterally today to make changes to the health care law yet again.
House Speaker John Boehner added the tax is “not fair” since the president has already delayed the law’s mandate for businesses.