Toomey Encourages PA’s Congressional Democrats to Buck Their Liberal Leadership on Key Health Care Vote
November 30th, 2009 | by BGuzzardi |
We do know how Opportunistic Democrat Arlen Specter will vote and we know how Principled Leftist Democrat Joe Sestak will vote and we know that Pat Toomey is making the case for realistic, free market solutions to health care delivery and would be the “41st Senator” . Please consider signing this petition asking Congress to vote “no”.
Toomey Encourages PA’s Congressional Democrats to Buck Their Liberal Leadership on Key Health Care Vote
For Immediate Release—November 5, 2009
Allentown, PA – This Saturday, the U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on the radical government health care bill pushed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the far left of the Democratic Party. Among other things, this 1,990-page, $1 trillion bill would:
- Impose 4 separate new taxes on businesses, individuals, income, and medical devices. The individual mandate will impose a 2.5% tax on income for taxpayers earning as little as $9,350. All together, the bill will impose $700 billion in new taxes.
- Affect small businesses with only, on average, 17 or more employees, hammering them with new taxes.
- Cut payments to Medicare and Medicaid by $426 billion.
Republicans in the House are expected to unanimously oppose the legislation, while many Democrats are likely to join in bipartisan opposition. That means a small number of Democrats in the House will likely determine the outcome.
Today, U.S Senate candidate Pat Toomey called upon those Democrats in Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation who occasionally show independence from Nancy Pelosi’s far left leadership to do so on the key vote of a government takeover of health care this Saturday.
In the past, Democratic Reps. Jason Altmire (PA-04), Chris Carney (PA-10), Tim Holden (PA-17), and Kathy Dahlkemper (PA-03) have, from time to time, demonstrated the courage to vote against the Democratic leadership’s extreme agenda, including the job-killing cap-and-trade legislation (RC #477, 06/26/09) and the Wall Street bailout (RC #27, 01/22/09). Rep. Altmire even voted against the mammoth health care bill in the Education and Labor Committee. Hopefully, they will demonstrate the same independence on Saturday.
Pat Toomey stated, “If Reps. Altmire, Carney, Holden, and Dahlkemper join the bipartisan opposition to the Pelosi bill, it could be rejected. That would save us from the horrible load of debt, taxes, and government control of health care that would come from this bill. It could also pave the way for real bipartisan commonsense health care reforms that we badly need. So I would urge these Pennsylvania members of Congress to resist the pressure that is undoubtedly being put on them by Speaker Pelosi, and do what’s best for Pennsylvania families by rejecting this trillion dollar government health care takeover.”