NEW: Cicilline to GOP: Focus on Jobs
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
After House Republican leaders held a vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act, U.S. Congressman David Cicilline (D-RI) reiterated his call for Congress to work in a bipartisan fashion to create jobs for working families.
“Republican leaders have repeatedly made it clear that they want to repeal the Affordable Care Act,” said Cicilline. “Instead of wasting time with another vote to repeal health care reform, which has no chance of passing the Senate or getting the President’s signature, Republican leaders should work with their Democratic colleagues and focus on bipartisan, commonsense proposals that will help our small businesses, support our manufacturers, and get workers the training they need to compete in this economy. It’s time for my friends on the other side of the aisle to focus on the most urgent issue facing Rhode Islanders and our country – getting people back to work.”
According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, more than 21,000 Rhode Island seniors have already saved an average of $589 on their prescriptions in the time since health care reform was enacted. In addition, an estimated 128,390 Medicare beneficiaries in Rhode Island have received access to free preventive services and more than 7,500 young adults in Rhode Island now have health insurance through their parent’s health care plans.
“Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court confirmed that health care reform was constitutional, and in my visits to senior centers across our state, I have heard one resounding message – the time for fighting over health care reform has ended,” added Cicilline. “Instead of putting our country through yet another divisive political battle, Republicans and Democrats in Congress should work together to ensure that health care reform works effectively for all Americans.”
Earlier today, the House approved the so-called “Repeal of Obamacare Act,” H.R. 6079 – the latest in a string of Republican efforts to undermine the Affordable Care Act. In the past year-and-a-half, Cicilline has urged House leaders to take up elements of the Make It In America agenda, which includes the National Infrastructure Development Bank Act, the National Manufacturing Strategy Act, and Cicilline’s Make It In America Block Grant Program Act. To date, House Republicans have yet to work in a bipartisan fashion on a comprehensive jobs plan.
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Michael Trenn
7:20pm on Wednesday, July 11, 2012
To Congressmistake ChiChi: You Democrats, led by President Barack Obama, should have focused on jobs in 2009, instead of spending all that effort and political capital on Obamacare, which turned out to be nothing more than a huge Democrat tax increase. So says the Supreme Court, so you can't argue with that. I can still remember Nancy Pelosi strolling through the Demonstrators holding that huge gavel. you guys paid forthat arrogance in 2010, and you will pay again in 2012. starting with you, I hope.
Charles Drago
1:27am on Thursday, July 12, 2012
David Cicilline once again impotently "calls for" that which he hasn't the slightest ability to make happen.
This pathetic excuse for a congressman ... During his tenure as mayor of Providence, David Cicilline presided over the worst unemployment in the city's history. He lied to the people about his record as a job creator -- from his TV campaign ad which he claimed was "made in Rhode Island" but in fact was created by an out-of-state firm, to his Capco Steel charade in which he described as long-term jobs which in fact have now disappeared forever.
David Cicilline is unfit to serve in the United States Congress.
pearl fanch
8:37am on Thursday, July 12, 2012
Why is it that RI is an embarrassment in EVERY possible way?
How is this ROACH our congressman???????
You have no idea how happy I'll be when he's gone.
He makes my skin crawl.
Alex Williams
12:34pm on Thursday, July 12, 2012
I've had enough of these Republican political stunts. First the Eric Holder vote and now this health care vote. They are pointless votes that accomplish nothing, and there are some big, important issues that Congress should be addressing. Cicilline is right - we need to create jobs and put our economy back on track. Thanks Congressman - keep up the good work!
Charles Drago
12:36pm on Thursday, July 12, 2012
"Good work"???
How many jobs has David Cicilline brought to RI? ZERO!
Charles Drago
12:42pm on Thursday, July 12, 2012
"Good work"???
Talk is cheap, David Cicilline. Especially when a serial liar is doing the talking.
David Cicilline does nothing but talk. "We need jobs," he says.
Really?
How many jobs has David Cicilline brought to Rhode Island?
ZERO!
And then David Cicilline, the incompetent, dishonorable man who presided over the economic ruin of Providence and then repeatedly lied about it, has the gall to tell us that we need to "put our economy back on track."
David Cicilline has ZERO moral authority to talk to us about anything.
Anyone with reasonable access to the certifiable record of David Cicilline's public life who does not conclude that he is an incompetent, dishonorable man who deserves to be banished permanently from public life is cognitively impaired and/or complicit in Cicilline's professional and moral failures.