Yesterday, the House moved past the crabbling over the Speaker post, and moved on to substantive policy.<\/p>\n
The House passed a bill repealing one of Obamacare’s most toxic provisions – the definition of 30 hours a week as “full time”, which has put (literally) countless people out of work:<\/p>\n
Republicans set the showdown as an initial test of how many Democrats would be willing to defect against a lame-duck president and after the GOP relentlessly attacked Obamacare in November\u2019s election campaigns, riding those attacks to big gains.<\/p>\n
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The legislation would repeal the provision that defines the 30-hour-per-week work threshold that determines when businesses have to face the health insurance coverage mandate. Critics say it scraps the traditional 40-hour workweek and takes pay out of Americans\u2019 pockets because some employers are cutting hours to below 30 a week to get around the law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Obama will override the veto – and if everyone votes as they did today, the veto will stand. \u00a0And every single Democrat that votes to override will be on record opposing the will of the 2014 majority of voters.<\/p>\n
And the first big wedge point of the 2016 will be put in place.<\/p>\n
Then, it’ll become a battle to increase the attention span of the American voter – on the left and\u00a0<\/em>the right…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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