House Budget Committee Sends Reconciliation Package Forward

October 9, 2015 at 6:05 PM
House Republicans on Friday (Oct. 9) shepherded a budget reconciliation package that would repeal both key and never-implemented parts of the Affordable Care Act through the House Budget Committee, passing the legislative package in a 21-11 vote. Budget committee members combined three separate bills passed by the Ways & Means, Energy & Commerce and Education & the Workforce committees into one consolidated package that would cut federal spending by $79.8 billion. ACA provisions on the chopping block include the individual...


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