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WASHINGTON, March 5 /Standard Newswire/ -- House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today congratulated the Commonwealth of Virginia on becoming the first state to enact legislation declaring its citizens' freedom against the so-called "individual mandate" in President Obama's massive health care bill. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has identified 37 other states that are working on similar measures.
- "I congratulate the people of the Commonwealth of Virginia and their elected representatives for standing tall and asserting their independence against unconstitutional health care mandates from Washington," Boehner said. "We are witnessing a growing state-level revolt against President Obama's massive health care bill -- a revolt that is likely to intensify with the president's decision this week to try and ram the bill through Congress rather than scrapping it and starting over. Legislators in more than three dozen other states, including my home state of Ohio, are working on measures similar to the one passed this week in Virginia."
Virginia's action comes one week after the White House hosted a televised health care summit that excluded the nation's governors and state legislators, despite a formal request by Boehner and Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) that state-level officials be included. The state of Pennsylvania, which President Obama will visit Monday to tout his health care bill, is among states in which "opt-out" legislation similar to the Virginia measure is being considered.
