The House heads back to work next week, and Republicans plan to move forward with their plans to repeal Obamacare on Tuesday.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor rescheduled the debate of the Obamacare repeal, originally slated for this past Tuesday, following the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona Democrat, at a constituent event in Tucson.
A debate about political rhetoric followed the shooting, but House Republicans have kept the name of the Obamacare repeal bill “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act.”
Rep. Steve King of Iowa told The Daily Caller that repealing Obamacare is “completely at the top of the list” for him and his fellow House Republicans, and said liberal attacks and “vitriolic political rhetoric” won’t stop him or other Tea Party conservatives. He said he expected this falsified debate from the outset of the tragedy and “cautioned from the beginning” that “we should get a handle on this.”
“The thing that I didn’t expect they’d do was that the heated rhetoric had something to do with the mind of the deranged individual and, therefore, we shouldn’t move with the repeal of Obamacare because it might bring about more heated rhetoric,” King said in a phone interview. “It is not a rational approach and it is not deductive reasoning. It’s emotionalism that is built without basis of logic and the business of this country should not be brought to a halt by one deranged individual.”
King said he hoped House leadership would have given the Obamacare repeal legislation the designation as H.R. 1, which is the first and generally deemed most important piece of legislation, but he settled for H.R. 2. No legislation has been designated H.R. 1 as of Thursday night.