It is not just defunding the Affordable Care Act that is the reason for the shutdown. Here is the entire list of demands from the Republicans: 1. A balanced budget amendment 2. Approving Keystone XL 3. Eliminating funding for Planned Parenthood 4. Medicare privatization 5. Tax reform, as outlined by Paul Ryan 6. The REINS Act, which would require Congress to approve significant federal regulations 7. Means-testing Social Security 8. Defunding Obamacare 9. Allowing employers to eliminate insurance coverage for birth control 10. An expansion of off-shore drilling 11. Preserving all the Bush tax cuts 12. “Trillions” in budget cuts 13. Slashing funding for food stamps 14. Protecting mountaintop strip mining 15. Stripping the EPA of authority to regulate greenhouse gases 16. Loosening regulation on coal ash 17. Delaying Obamacare implementation by one year 18. Repealing a tax on medical devices 19. Eliminating Social Service Block Grants 20. Expanding drilling on federal lands 21. Restricting the child tax credit
Posted on: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 01:24:13 +0000
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