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

<i><a href="http://majorityleader.gov/" target="_blank">From Majority Leader Eric Cantor....</a></i><br /><br />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 <i>Washington Post</i> / <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><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><u><b>FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH </b></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /> <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_612174443" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">On Friday</span></span>, the House will meet at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_612174444" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">9:00 a.m.</span></span> for legislative business. <br /> First votes expected: <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_612174445" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">10:30 - 11:15 a.m.</span></span> Last votes expected: <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_612174446" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">12:30 - 1:30 p.m.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><b>One Minute Speeches</b><br /><br /> <a href="http://republicanleaderforms.house.gov/Components/Redirect/r.aspx?ID=380272-6846703" target="_blank"><b>H.R. 3350</b></a> - Keep Your Health Plan Act of 2013 (Closed Rule, One Hour of Debate)<i> (Sponsored by Rep. Fred Upton / Energy and Commerce Committee / Ways and Means Committee)</i><br /><br /> <b>Special Order Speeches</b><br /><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"><u><b>COMMITTEE ACTIVITY OF THE DAY </b></u><br /> 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 <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_612174447" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">9:30 a.m.</span></span>)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="http://republicanleaderforms.house.gov/Components/Redirect/r.aspx?ID=380274-6846703" target="_blank">Printable PDF</a>

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

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Denver Post editorial: 'Poll -- Obama misled nation'

The Affordable Care Act is not working out the way President Barack Obama and Democrats thought it would. Today's <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_24509428/poll-obama-misled-nation?source=rss" target="_blank">Denver Post</a> editorialized about the negative effects of Obamacare:<br /><blockquote>"President Obama's misstatement, 'If you like your health plan, you can keep it,' left a bad taste with a lot of people," said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "Nearly half of the voters, 46 percent, think he knowingly deceived them."<br /><br />Just because you like your old approval ratings doesn't mean that you can keep them.</blockquote>

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Country spoofs ... 'Obamacare By Morning'

<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/YR3_mM4bpCY" width="560"></iframe><br /></div><br />Could the White House pick up the white courtesy phone? America is calling. <br /><br />Thursday's Country Music Awards (CMA) held in Nashville (hi to SWAC Daughter) is being remembered this year not so much for the musicians but for a spot at the start of the show that mocked the website problems of the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare.<br /><br />Yeah ... they went there.<br /><br />Hosts Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley entertained the overwhelmingly approving crowd with a musical spoof of the troubled national health care law. Set to the tune of the night's Entertainer of the Year winner George Strait's hit song, "Amarillo By Morning," the comical rendition began after Brad joked that he had "twerked" his back, a jab at Miley Cyrus' performance earlier in the year at the Video Music Awards. Carrie innocently asked in her Southern accent, "Hey, do you have that Obamacare?" which brought a roar of laughter and applause from the crowd.<br /><br />She goes on to say she started trying to sign up "last Thursday and I'm almost done," which brought more laughter from the crowd. As they sat down at a laptop, Brad played the guitar while Carrie made moves of trying to get a frozen website to do something, and they began to sing (remember, it's to the tune of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtVeDaZxAXo">"Amarillo By Morning"</a>):<br /><blockquote><i>Obamacare by morning</i><br /><i>Why's it taking so long?</i><br /><i>I'm gonna wind up with hemmoroids</i><br /><i>If I sit here til dawn.</i><br /><i>Oh, I've cataracts and dimmentia</i><br /><i>This is getting on my last nerve</i><br /><i>Obamacare by morning</i><br /><i>Over 6 people served.</i></blockquote>It brought down the house. Reaction around the internet was instantaneous. It spread through social media and hit the news cycles, bringing further-reaching recognition to the CMAs than anything else that night.<br /><br />The white courtesy phone is ringing....

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Www.HealthCare.Gov - The Obamacare Marketplace

Unsurprisingly the most popular website being visited now is<b> Www.Healthcare.Gov</b>, the<b> Obamacare marketplace</b> that has forced the Government shutdown.<br /><br />The Obamacare (or affordable healthcare for all by the Obama Govt) website  comes with an one page guide to the health insurance marketplace.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.healthcare.gov/get-covered-a-1-page-guide-to-the-health-insurance-marketplace/">https://www.healthcare.gov/get-covered-a-1-page-guide-to-the-health-insurance-marketplace/</a><br /><br />At first glance the website seems surprisingly simple, well laid out and easily navigable.<br /><br />However early twitter reports convey a number of glitches with some of the exchanges for different states down.<br /><br />To start with one has to first go into the Individual/Families or the Small Business Category. The next step would be to Select the State.<br /><br />Go to the <a href="http://healthcare.gov/">Healthcare.Gov</a> website to continue with one's application for Obamacare.

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Goodlatte townhall: The question that didn't get asked

Monday's <a href="http://www.dailyprogress.com/newsvirginian/news/local/immigration-a-hot-topic-at-goodlatte-meeting/article_75b12d9a-0932-11e3-8ac2-0019bb30f31a.html">townhall meeting in Augusta County</a> with Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-6th CD) was chocked full of people who are upset about Obamacare and want to see Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and others shut down the U.S. government in their pursuit of shutting down Obamacare.<br /><br />So it was a surprise that this one question was not asked by anyone in the crowd of about 150 people: Why was Congress exempted from the Obamacare legislation that the rest of us have to abide by?

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Ted Cruz is a 'train wreck'

<div style="text-align: center;"><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" height="245" id="msnbc724728" width="420"><param name="movie" value="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640" /><param name="FlashVars" value="launch=52629446&width=420&height=245" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed name="msnbc724728" src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640" width="420" height="245" FlashVars="launch=52629446&width=420&height=245" allowscriptaccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 5px; text-align: center; width: 420px;"><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032072" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; color: #5799DB !important; font-weight: normal !important; height: 13px; text-decoration: none !important;"><br /></a></div><i>“Have you seen what Ted Cruz is doing? He’s going crazy on Republicans … Ted Cruz is attacking anybody that is not willing to shut down the government over Obamacare … I have to be very careful about what I say, but Ted Cruz comes in, obviously so completely ignorant about the war that Tom Coburn has been fighting for 20 years. And to say something like this about Tom Coburn. Ted Cruz is a total train wreck. He is comparing Mitch McConnell to Barack Obama. He is attacking Tom Coburn as being a member of the ‘surrender caucus’ when Tom Coburn, and yes Ted Cruz…I…put our political lives on the line more times in six months than Ted Cruz will put on the line his entire lifetime.”</i><br /><div style="text-align: center;">- former GOP Congressman Joe Scarborough (<a href="http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/07/31/watch-why-ted-cruz-is-turning-into-a-total-train-wreck/">"Morning Joe,"</a> July 31, 2013)</div>

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Eric Cantor says ObamaCare delay should be permanent

<div class="p1">Bowing to the reality that ObamaCare isn't quite ready for prime time, the White House announced on Tuesday that it was delaying the employer health care mandate for a year.</div><div class="p1"><br /></div><div class="p1">In response, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) noted that the best cure for ObamaCare would be a permanent delay:</div><div class="p1"><blockquote>"This further confirms that even the proponents of ObamaCare know it will hurt jobs, decrease economic growth and make it harder for families to have access to quality and affordable health care," Cantor said. "Rather than continuing to delay the predictable pain until another election day has passed, we should scrap this entire law and instead implement patient-centered reforms before any more damage is done to our economy or the health care families depend on."</blockquote>Interesting that the announcement was made barely 24 hours before the Independence Day holiday and while President Barack Obama was out of the country.</div>

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