Billy Long Failed Southwest Missouri on Defunding Obamacare

Article One Section Eight of the Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse. This was well known by Congressman Billy Long who ran for Congress promising voters he would defund Obamacare.

I can only find one instance where Billy Long and the Republicans attempted to defund Obamacare, and the provision they attempted to defund had nothing to do with the main basis of the legislation. The only instance of defunding Obamacare I can find on the Internet was legislation would repeal $100 million in funding for the construction of school-based health centers. Other than that I cannot find any instance of Billy Long and the Republicans attempting to defund Obamacare other than this school.

So what happened to Billy's big promises? If you remember in a video with Sarah Steelman, Long said his three top priorities were:

1. Defund Obamacare
2. Introduce a national version of the Missouri's Hancock Amendment
3. Term Limits





I can't find any piece of legislation or any evidence other than one vote where Congressman Long has actually attempted to defund Obamacare despite it being his number one priority?


Congressman Long, what happened to your priorities? 


Long has obviously failed to live up to his priorities, priorities that attracted that obviously voters embraced in the 2010 election. Yet, when you look at the bills Long has sponsored or co-sponsored, many of them increase the size of government or create new powers for the government like the federal broadband act he co-sponsored with Peter King. You may remember that because Long sponsored the bill no knowing it sold off HAM radio frequencies, the same HAM frequencies that were essential in saving lives in Joplin.





Co-sponsoring legislation to sell off HAM radio frequencies, in a bill you can tie to the Internet kill switch, was more important that drafting legislation to meet your number one priority.


Of course, when you look at Long's two other priorities, well, he appears to have quickly forgotten about those too. A national version of the Hancock Amendment may have also prevented this new tax known as Obamacare had it been in place. Of course, Billy Long's first piece of legislation was introducing a bill to have the federal government acknowledge National Auctioneer Day. Doesn't that really tell you where Billy's priorities are?





And that was followed by backing National Golf Day.





No bill to defund Obamacare though.