Democrats Fire Off Warning Shot On Administration’s Obamacare Reversal

RESTRICTION: NO New York or New Jersey Newspapers or newspapers within a 75 mile radius of New York CityUnited States Representative Elijah Cummings (Democrat of Maryland), Ranking member, US House Committee on Overs... RESTRICTION: NO New York or New Jersey Newspapers or newspapers within a 75 mile radius of New York CityUnited States Representative Elijah Cummings (Democrat of Maryland), Ranking member, US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform makes his closing remarks as FBI Director James Comey testifies before the committee following his announcement on Tuesday that he would recommend not to prosecute former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for maintaining a private server on Capitol Hill FBI Director Comey Testifies on Clinton E-Mail Server Investigation, Washington, D.C, USA - 07 Jul 2016 (Rex Features via AP Images) MORE LESS
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Five House Democratic committee chairmen penned a letter to Attorney General William Barr Monday warning him to comply with their request for information on the administration’s reversal on Obamacare — or else.

Chairmen Elijah Cummings (Oversight), Frank Pallone Jr. (Energy and Commerce), Richard Neal (Ways and Means), Bobby Scott (Education and Labor) and Jerry Nadler (Judiciary) point out in the letter that the Department of Justice missed the deadline to turn over information undergirding the administration’s pivot to supporting the notion that the entire Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional.

“We reiterate our April 8, 2019, request for documents and testimony and ask that you provide a complete response by May 24, 2019,” they write. “If we do not receive a response by this date, we will have no choice but to consider alternative means of obtaining compliance.”

Read the full letter here:

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  1. Don’t. Let. Up.

  2. Screw the god-damned “warning shots”. We know where the trump folk are I’m this. They’re not gonna respond in a positive way. So as I said… Screw warning them.

  3. All Dotard needs to do is impose tariff’s on US healthcare.

    That’s his go to solution for fucking up anything.

  4. Great. Another strongly worded letter. Also, is it just me or does everything take two weeks in order to force compliance…and then what? Another strongly worded letter?

  5. “Warning Shot”. “Might Issue Subpoenas”. “May Consider Fines”. “Find It Troubling”. “Trump Might Be Guilty of Impeachable Acts”. Yes, the Democrats are strongly considering maybe starting to think about meeting to discuss the possibility of looking into what might possibly turn out to be unseemly acts by the Trump administration. Just like Apu did with Homer and the candy mangling. “You leave me no choice but to ask you nicely again”.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7DL_L3Xdac

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