In lieu of actual legislation, the House spent the last half of the week debating a measure instructing committees to do oversight on government regulations to see if they're cost-effective.
For DeMoro, that the amendment would only have instructed committees to look into the issue at some point in the future made the cowardice that much more galling.
As The Huffington Post's Jonathan Cohn reported Jan . 12 Senate Republicans took a first step, passing a "special budget resolution that instructs committees to write legislation stripping the health care law of its funding and spending provisions".
But Collins said she couldn't say where she would be on a new bill, and would vote yes on a motion to proceed to a resolution instructing committees to come up with a bill.
In a mostly party-line vote that took place early on Thursday, the Senate passed a special budget resolution that instructs committees to write legislation stripping the health care law of its funding and spending provisions, effectively ending Obamacare's coverage expansion.
told members during a Tuesday morning conference meeting that they'd like to vote on a budget resolution instructing committees to come up with a repeal of major parts of the Affordable Care Act by Friday, which would be the first chance they'd have to consider the legislation after it's cleared the Senate.
Senator Trent Lott, Republican of Mississippi, the Senate majority leader, instructed committee chairmen to prepare for hearings the first week in January on Mr. Bush's prospective cabinet nominees.
For instance, to meet its deficit reduction targets, the House budget calls for nearly $1.9 trillion in savings from entitlement programs outside Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, so called other mandatory spending, but it instructs committee chairmen to draft legislation securing a tiny fraction of that amount.
Ministers cannot instruct parliamentary committees as to what they should do.
Once Republicans control both chambers, they can use the resolution to instruct key committees to rewrite the laws governing taxes and entitlements such as Obamacare and Medicare (health care for the elderly) through a process called reconciliation.
