The House of Representatives passed HR 3590 (“Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”) by a vote of 219-212 Sunday, March 21, and it has since been signed into law by President Barack Obama. But no sooner had the vote to pass it happened in the House than state legislatures and attorneys general were working to make sure that the bill, which is seen by many to be an unconstitutional power play by the federal government, never effects their own state. Florida was leading the way this week.
On Monday, by a vote of 10-3, Florida’s House Health Care Regulation Committee approved HJR 37 (“Health Care Services”). This resolution proposes an addition to the State Constitution that would secure the freedom of Floridians with regards to health care, overriding federal legislation that might deny such freedoms.
Monday’s vote was a major first step for the resolution, which would then require a supermajority vote (60%) of both the Florida House and Senate to put an amendment on the November 2010 ballot. Then it would require 60% of the voters supporting it in order to take effect. While the road to become an official amendment to the State Constitution isn’t easy, it does help prevent any claims that the amendment doesn’t represent the will of the people.
On Tuesday, another front in the war against the unconstitutional health care bill was opened when Florida attorney general Bill McCollum was launching a lawsuit against the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services departments and their secretaries, contesting that the federal government overstepped its constitutional boundaries in enacting a law that would override the rights of the States and individuals. The lawsuit will start in a Florida court and is likely to end in the Supreme Court of the United States.
Both acts have largely occurred along party lines, though some Democrats have broken ranks across the nation to join Republicans not just in Florida but in other states – such as Louisiana attorney general James Caldwell – in the fight to overturn HR 3590.
HJR 37 – Health Care Services
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Bills/billsdetail.aspx?BillId=42156
HR 3590 – Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3590/show
a vote of 219-212 Sunday, March 21, and it has since been signed into law by President Barack
Obama. But no sooner had the vote to pass it happened in the House than state legislatures
and attorneys general were working to make sure that the bill, which is seen by many to be an
unconstitutional power play by the federal government, never effects their own state.
Florida was leading the way this week.
On Monday, by a vote of 10-3, Florida’s House Health Care Regulation Committee approved HJR
37 (“Health Care Services”). This resolution proposes an addition to the State Constitution
that would secure the freedom of Floridians with regards to health care, overriding federal
legislation that might deny such freedoms.
Monday’s vote was a major first step for the resolution, which would then require a
supermajority vote (60%) of both the Florida House and Senate to put an amendment on the
November 2010 ballot. Then it would require 60% of the voters supporting it in order to take
effect. While the road to become an official amendment to the State Constitution isn’t easy,
it does help prevent any claims that the amendment doesn’t represent the will of the people.
On Tuesday, another front in the war against the unconstitutional health care bill was opened
when Florida attorney general Bill McCollum was launching a lawsuit against the Treasury,
Labor, and Health and Human Services departments and their secretaries, contesting that the
federal government overstepped its constitutional boundaries in enacting a law that would
override the rights of the States and individuals. The lawsuit will start in a Florida court
and is likely to end in the Supreme Court of the United States.
Both acts have largely occured along party lines, though some Democrats have broken ranks
across the nation to join Republicans not just in Florida but in other states – such as
Louisiana attorney general James Caldwell – in the fight to overturn HR 3590.
HJR 37 – Health Care Services
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Bills/billsdetail.aspx?BillId=42156
HR 3590 – Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3590/show
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Tue, Mar 23, 2010
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