"Repeal the HealthCare Act" |
Jan.
18, 2011--Congressman Steve King (R-IA) and other members of Congress
accepted 535,000 petitions from Ken Hoagland, chairman of Repeal It
Now.org, at a press conference on a cold day on Capitol Hill.
Above
King speaks as Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots, Rep. Steve
Pearce (R-NM), Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and others look on. The
House is
scheduled to vote on the Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act
( H.R. 2)
tomorrow.
Democrats
were
also
active,
for
example
holding
an
informal
hearing
and
organizing
several
conference
calls to discuss the adverse effects of repealing the law. |
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN)
speaks as King and Hoagland look on. |
Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) speaks as
Pearce, a Tea Party activist, Gohmert, Bachmann, Hoagland and King look
on. |
Rep. Gohmert shows off the
bill. Reps. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) and Michael Burgess (R-TX) also
spoke. |
Jenny Beth Martin of Woodstock,
GA is a co-founder and national coordinator of Tea Party Patriots. |
Ken Hoagland started the Repeal
It Now effort on Sept. 1, 2010 (Hoagland is familiar to many for his
work on the FairTax; he left that position in August). In
addition to
Hoagland the marquee signers are former Gov. Mike Huckabee and Michael
Reagan. www.repealhealthcareact.org |