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U.S. House schedule for Friday, November 15, 2013: Upton's 'Keep Your Health Care Plan Act' vote today

<a href="http://majorityleader.gov/" target="_blank">From Majority Leader Eric Cantor....</a> What to watch today ... "Keep Your Health Care Plan Act" sponsored by Congressman Fred Upton will be voted on today, a bill President Barack Obama has declared he will <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-threatens-veto-keep-your-health-plan-act_767140.html" target="_blank">veto</a> if it makes its way to his desk. Points of view: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/11/14/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-plans-to-fix-obamacare/" target="_blank">Ezra Kline - Wonkblog</a> at the Washington Post / <a href="http://twitchy.com/2013/11/14/president-threatens-to-veto-keep-your-health-plan-act/" target="_blank">Twitchy</a> / <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/11/14/rumors-obamacare-fix-president-to-address-concerns-at-1135-am/" target="_blank">Fox News</a> / <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/11/14/obamacare-administrative-fix-democrats-republicans/3541645/" target="_blank">USA Today</a> <div style="text-align: center;">FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH </div><div style="text-align: center;"> On Friday, the House will meet at 9:00 a.m. for legislative business. First votes expected: 10:30 - 11:15 a.m. Last votes expected: 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div>One Minute Speeches <a href="http://republicanleaderforms.house.gov/Components/Redirect/r.aspx?ID=380272-6846703" target="_blank">H.R. 3350</a> - Keep Your Health Plan Act of 2013 (Closed Rule, One Hour of Debate) (Sponsored by Rep. Fred Upton / Energy and Commerce Committee / Ways and Means Committee) Special Order Speeches <div style="text-align: center;">COMMITTEE ACTIVITY OF THE DAY Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade hearing on “<a href="http://republicanleaderforms.house.gov/Components/Redirect/r.aspx?ID=380273-6846703" target="_blank">Our Nation of Builders: Training the Builders of the Future</a>” (Friday, November 15th, at 9:30 a.m.)</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><a href="http://republicanleaderforms.house.gov/Components/Redirect/r.aspx?ID=380274-6846703" target="_blank">Printable PDF</a>

From Majority Leader Eric Cantor.... What to watch today ... "Keep Your Health Care Plan Act" sponsored by Congressman Fred Upton ...

How many Americans does it take to shut down the government?

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb2tmrkdAXSMRcjGnEicOB6MrY5qLgU58cpyofvKlqDBol91iZWuZ7jlFlIX84G6HmkyDexcI6q-pTc-ze5C8-POqyVD0vV2kaWOPlp9IZ5qBbYcm77iuSe476NWjydZlQGJyA6JFd2Y2y/s1600/jobsnotcuts.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb2tmrkdAXSMRcjGnEicOB6MrY5qLgU58cpyofvKlqDBol91iZWuZ7jlFlIX84G6HmkyDexcI6q-pTc-ze5C8-POqyVD0vV2kaWOPlp9IZ5qBbYcm77iuSe476NWjydZlQGJyA6JFd2Y2y/s200/jobsnotcuts.png" width="200" /></a></div>Extremist Republicans claim shutting down the government over their opposition to a law passed three years ago is what the American people want. That's an interesting theory considering less than 5 percent of the population actually voted for these hostage-takers. Business Insider <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-government-shutdown-is-the-will-of-a-pathetic-43-of-the-population-2013-10">reports</a>: <blockquote class="tr_bq">Let's look at the element of the House GOP that supports tying the continuing resolution to fund the government to an un-passable defunding of the Affordable Care Act. Judging by the number of people who signed  <a href="http://meadows.house.gov/uploads/Meadows_DefundLetter.pdf" sl-processed="1">freshman Rep. Mark Meadow's (R-N.C.)</a> letter,  <a href="http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/jwithrow/does-your-senator-stand-with-mike-lee-against-obam" sl-processed="1">81 members</a> of the 233 GOP caucus support this hardcore strategy. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Adding them up, we see that only 13.8 million Americans actually voted for the suicide caucus. That's only 11.7% of the people who voted in a congressional election in 2012, and an absolutely pathetic 4.3% of the U.S. population.</blockquote>How can such a small percentage of people stack Congress with enough sociopaths to shut down the government? The answer is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering" rel="nofollow">gerrymandering</a> -- self-serving congressional redistricting that allowed Republicans to get 33 more seats than Democrats in the last election despite getting fewer votes. And <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/10/02/2716421/how-gerrymandering-makes-a-speedy-shutdown-end-unlikely/">Think Progress reports</a> that Republican gerrymandering makes a quick resolution to the shutdown even more unlikely: <blockquote class="tr_bq">Obama garnered 48.8 percent of the vote or more in just 13 of the 218 other Congressional Districts currently represented by a Republican -- and even if the general public wants the government reopened, there is little political pressure in heavily GOP districts for Republican members to side with President Obama and the Democrats.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">With a gerrymandered majority consisting of districts that do not represent the majority of Americans’ viewpoints, House Republicans can keep the government in a shutdown highly insulated from the anger and blame they are receiving.</blockquote>So when you hear the fanatics in Washington say they're carrying out the will of the American people, remember they're more likely carrying out the will of their heavily gerrymandered districts. They aren't satisfied with the <a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/02/sequester-is-anti-growth-and-anti.html" rel="nofollow">anti-worker sequester cuts</a> they got this year. To them, it's great to tear at the social safety net. But it's better to rip it to pieces and even better to make it look like your opponents are to blame for the crisis. When that doesn't work the extremists are busy downplaying the crisis altogether. But <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/01/the-nine-most-painful-consequences-of-a-government-shutdown/" rel="nofollow">the shutdown is much more than a few shuttered parks</a>. It's an attack on federal workers, veterans' benefits, vaccine programs, food safety inspections, food assistance for women and children, disability benefits, Head Start programs, financing for small businesses, and tourism. And it's all thanks to the shrill minority spawned from gerrymandered voting districts -- democracy (and the economy) be damned.

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Extremist Republicans claim shutting down the government over their opposition to a law passed three years ago is what the American people w...

U.S. House schedule for Friday, November 15, 2013: Upton's 'Keep Your Health Care Plan Act' vote today

How many Americans does it take to shut down the government?

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