Amendment was suggested to Foxx by a town hall participant
Washington, DC—Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (NC-05) offered an amendment last night in the House Rules Committee to remove provisions completely unrelated to health care reform from the health care bill before the House. Foxx, who is a member of the Rules Committee, offered the amendment on the suggestion of constituent at a recent town hall meeting.
“This is a straightforward and common sense amendment that trims out completely unrelated education programs from this health care bill,” Foxx said. “By adding a nationalization of student loan programs to the health care bill my Democratic colleagues are only confirming to the American people that this process is rotten to the core.”
Foxx’s amendment is an amendment in the nature of a substitute. This means that it would remove the unrelated education programs from the health care package. The idea for the amendment came from a participant at a recent town hall who opposed rolling the expansion of education programs into the health care bill.
“If these education provisions are worthwhile they should be able to pass Congress on their own merit,” Foxx said. “Shoehorning them into a more than 2,000 page bill only serves to muddy the water. So I’m pleased to offer this proposal on behalf of constituents all across America who are sick and tired of the way this bill was cobbled together.”
The amendment was not adopted by the Rules committee, which voted against it along party lines.
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