Lujan and Heinrich Stick with Pelosi on Obamacare

Martin Heinrich

NewsNM note -Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Lujan now part of a shrunken Democratic Party in the U.S. House of Representatives joined Nancy Pelosi in voting against the repeal of Obamacare yesterday in Washington. GOP Congressman Steve Pearce voted with the majority to repeal. It was a much larger majority that the one that passed Obamacare last year.


Ben Ray Lujan

Washington Times - House Republicans on Wednesday scored their first victory in their long-shot bid to scrap President Obama's health care overhaul, delivering a repeal bill to the Senate and a stiff rebuke of White House policy that will help shape the political landscape over the weeks, months and years to come. In one of its first acts since winning the House, the new Republican majority passed the repeal bill on a mostly party-line vote, fulfilling a campaign promise many of them made to voters last year, but now the effort moves on to the more substantive task of writing an alternative to the law Mr. Obama signed in March. "Repeal means paving the way for better solutions that will lower the costs without destroying jobs or bankrupting our government," House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, said.

Steve Pearce

"Let's work together to put into place reforms that lower the costs without destroying jobs or bankrupting our government. Let's challenge ourselves to do better." The vote was 245 to 189, with three Democrats joining all Republicans. The Democrats who voted for repeal were Reps. Mike Ross of Arkansas, Dan Boren of Oklahoma and Mike McIntyre of North Carolina. Read full story here:

Lujan and Heinrich Stick with Pelosi on Obamacare