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The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, passed by a Democratic-controlled House of Representatives and a Republican-controlled Senate, and signed by President Ronald Reagan on August 13, 1981, combined funding for social service programs, including mental health services, into a single grant given to states. Supporters believed this ...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and informally as Obamacare, is a landmark U.S. federal statute enacted by the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010.
The Democratic Senate leadership stated the Senate would only pass a "clean" funding bill without any restrictions on ACA. The government shutdown began on October 1. [18] [19] [20] Senate Republicans threatened to block appointments to relevant agencies, such as the Independent Payment Advisory Board [21] and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...
If the Republican-controlled Congress doesn't extend the enhanced subsidies beyond this year, "cost will essentially skyrocket for millions of Americans. ... the 2010 health care law during his ...
February 4, 2010: Republican Scott Brown's election to the Senate ended the Democratic super-majority. [12] April 20 – September 19, 2010: Deepwater Horizon oil spill; November 2, 2010: 2010 general elections, in which Republicans regained control of the House while the Democrats remained in control of the Senate.
When asked if Senate Republicans planned to release the text of the bill to the public, a Senate aide told Axios, "We aren't stupid." [ 41 ] According to Don Ritchie , Historian Emeritus of the Senate , such a secretive process has not been seen in the Senate in over a hundred years.
Schumer, a Democrat and co-sponsor of the legislation, could invoke a Senate rule that would skip a committee hearing and send the bill directly to a floor vote by the full Senate. "If Schumer ...
The original 1,547-page bill was whittled down to 118 pages and passed the Senate 37 minutes after a midnight Friday deadline. ... and we will have Republican control of the Senate and the House ...