Posted: 9/24/2013 4:11:53 PM EDT
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Form letter from GOA, sent to Dick Durbin:
According to a CNN Poll, 73% of the American people favor repealing ObamaCare, either fully or partially (March 2012). I am part of that 73 percent and am glad the House voted recently - by a vote of 230-189 - to deny funding for ObamaCare in the Continuing Resolution. Now, the action moves to the Senate, where Majority Leader Harry Reid will try to reinsert funding for the anti-gun ObamaCare law. Senators can defeat Reid's substitute language by filibustering it. If 41 senators vote in favor of prolonging the filibuster, ObamaCare is dead. And, frankly, any senator who claims to oppose ObamaCare - but then votes against the filibuster (thus allowing Reid to reinsert funding for the widely-despised health care law) - is a lying hypocrite. So please oppose any attempt to insert funding for the anti-gun ObamaCare law - even if it means voting to filibuster the House-passed CR. Harry Reid should pass the House bill as is (and should allow a 60-vote threshold for any effort that would add ObamaCare funding back into the House bill). I understand that if the Senate refuses to pass the House bill - and this results in a government shutdown - IT WILL BE THE DEMOCRATS AND HARRY REID WHO ARE SHUTTING DOWN THE GOVERNMENT. ObamaCare is unwise and dangerous on many levels. And I agree with Gun Owners of America that ObamaCare will give the federal government the ability to use (and abuse) our medical data as the pretext for keeping law-abiding gun owners from possessing firearms - just as they have already done to more than 150,000 military veterans. Please oppose any attempt to insert funding for the anti-gun ObamaCare law. The reply: Thank you for contacting me regarding gun ownership and the health reform law. I appreciate hearing from you. In March 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This bill extends affordable and stable health insurance to more than 30 million uninsured Americans, including millions in Illinois. Opponents of health care reform have spread rumors about the legislation that are distortions of the truth, or in many cases, completely false. The Affordable Care Act, for example, does not establish a federal health database nor does it permit the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) to prohibit gun ownership based on medical information. I appreciate you sharing your concerns about this issue. Please feel free to keep in touch. Sincerely, Richard J. Durbin United States Senator I begrudgingly cooked breakfast for our fine Senator on Monday when he visited my place of employment, sure would have liked to have talked to him. Edited for grammar |