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highplainsdem

(49,022 posts)
Wed Nov 16, 2016, 12:10 PM Nov 2016

From TPM: A Tool Kit for Sleuthing Out Medicare Phaseout

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-tool-kit-for-sleuthing-out-medicare-phaseout


A lot of you have been writing in that you've contacted members of the House and Senate and they simply refuse to tell you how their bosses will vote on Paul Ryan's Medicare Phaseout plan. They've never heard of it; there's no bill; the boss doesn't have a position yet. Yada yada yada. Here's something that will help. There is a plan. In fact, there's a bill. And virtually every member of the House at least has voted on it. The Ryan Medicare Phaseout proposal is part of the Ryan budget which has been voted on in the House every year since 2011.

Follow me below the fold for more details.

Here's our write up from 2015 when the Ryan budget blueprint passed for the fifth time.

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The budget passed by a vote of 219 to 208. All 219 were Republicans, all but 26 members of the GOP caucus. Did your Rep vote for it? Easy enough to find out. Here's the roll call. For all 219 of them, they've already voted for the plan. They know about it because they voted for it. So no one can wriggle out of saying they don't know about it or there's no plan or they haven't announced a position yet. They already voted for it - at least if they're among the 219 who voted for it.



Link to that 2015 TPM article

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/house-passes-tom-price-budget

and the direct link to the roll call for that bill, so you can see exactly how your representatives voted then:

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2015/roll141.xml
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