WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement regarding the GOP’s obstruction of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Earlier today, Speaker Boehner announced that House Republicans would hold yet another - the 38th - vote to repeal the health law:
"Republicans are engaged in a hypocritical, dead-end attack on health care reform, as exemplified by the Majority Leader’s statement today that in postponing the employer mandate the President ‘came down on the side of big business, but left the American people out in the cold.’ In state after state, many Republicans are trying to thwart a Medicaid expansion without which millions of the most vulnerable Americans won’t have access to health coverage. And in Washington House Republicans are now planning the 38th vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act and preparing a bill aimed at undercutting health care reform by trying to connect it to the troubles at the IRS. All of this when the nation is asking House Republicans to work with House Democrats to find common ground."
