CBS’s Pelley Upset House’s ObamaCare Repeal Votes Have ‘Cost Taxpayers’ $50 Million
Showing a renewed concern for the interests of taxpayers, CBS put “Cost to Taxpayers” on screen Wednesday night as CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley worried not about the cost of ObamaCare, but “how much it cost taxpayers for the House to repeal the law again and again?” Pelley relayed how “the Congressional Research Service tells us that the House of Representatives costs us $24 million a week. So with two weeks spent repealing the law, that comes to a little under $50 million.”
What a meaningless point. As if that $50 million wouldn’t have been spent in any event since the cost of operating the House would not have disappeared from federal outlays if the body dealt with other issues.
The Republican-controlled House voted 244-185 to repeal ObamaCare, leading Pelley to frame a story: “With so much urgent business before the House, why spend so much time voting to repeal the law over and over again?”
Reporter Nancy Cordes soon complained: “It is the 33rd vote to repeal all or part of the President’s health care law, a Republican effort that, according to a CBS News tally, has taken up at least 80 hours on the House floor. That’s two full work weeks since early 2011.”
She demanded of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor: “You’ve held something like 33 votes already about repealing the President’s health care law. Haven’t you made your point already? Why keep holding these votes, keep conducting these debates?”
Following her piece, Pelley ruminated:
We wondered how much it cost taxpayers for the House to repeal the law again and again?. You can’t be exact about these things, but the Congressional Research Service tells us that the House of Representatives costs us $24 million a week. So with two weeks spent repealing the law, that comes to a little under $50 million.
Pelley assumed the anchor seat after ObamaCare passed, but the House of Representatives spent a lot more than two weeks debating it in 2009 and 2010 and I don’t recall CBS fretting then over the cost of the time spent on it.
From Monday night: “Bizarrely, CBS’s O’Donnell Cites ‘Cost to Taxpayers’ of Maintaining Current Income Tax Rates”
Full transcript of the Pelley-Cordes story, on the Wednesday, July 11 CBS Evening News, in an MRC.org BiasAlert.
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I'll bet the Dear Ruler blows $50 mil every time he hits the 1st
Submitted by Dave. on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 4:14am.
...tee outside of DC.
-Dave
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$24 million a week?
Submitted by CO2Maker on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 6:26am.
That comes out to $1.248 billion a year. That's what it costs to run Congress? That's a lot of money, or as they say now in these times of trillion-dollar deficits, a "rounding error."
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Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Scott Pelle another Media Mogul
Submitted by NVRAT on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 8:14am.
Wacko Nut job showing concern for the tax paying public. Hell 50 mil is a drop in the bucket when compared Liberal spending and can`t even compare with what Obamacare will cost us, it seems the Liberal establishment will do what ever it takes to misinform the public. I don`t recall any of these slime balls complaining about the money spent on the months and months the Democratic Communist Party consumed while trying to pass Obamacare.
So what's Harry Reid's "cost" to never pass a budget?
Submitted by merly1 on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 8:50am.
Just wondering..............
That's easy.
Submitted by c5then on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 9:16am.
3 Trillion and counting.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
how much will it cost not to repeal?
Submitted by ohio granny on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 10:27am.
How much will it cost not to repeal Obamacare? Hundreds of billions of dollars that is how much. Hundreds of billions versus 50 million? Do the math. It will be much cheaper to repeal than to leave in place.
Is the math too hard for you Pelley???
Don't worry, stupid. The
Submitted by texastommy on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 10:36am.
Don't worry, stupid. The Senate has saved quite a bit more than that by not passing a budget in three years. Hell if it's $50 million a vote, then they've saved $150 million, right?
Where is all this outrage when onne chamber or the other vote on "red sneaker" day? Or how about "Nancy Pelosi Botox Day?"
And what's really galling, you moron, is that you express NO FREAKIN' outrage at the Bamster's trillion dollar deficit every year.
Critical thinking. See if can learn how, you putz.
I guess the $500 billion Obama stole from Medicare...
Submitted by Order270 on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 10:41am.
...to make Obamacare appear "free" is meaningless.