Join Me in the Fight to Stop Obama and Pelosi's Health Care Bill!
As Attorney General, I took an oath to uphold the Michigan Constitution and the Constitution of the United States. When Congress exceeds their constitutional authority and infringes on Michigan's sovereignty and the individual liberty of Michigan citizens, I have a duty to defend this State and her citizens.
But in the fight to stop Obamacare, I can't do it alone.
Please forward this email to five friends or family members right now and ask them to visit www.MikeCox2010.com to sign our petition telling the President and Congress that we won't stand for the federal government's takeover of healthcare.
The Obama - Pelosi health care bill is staggering in both size and cost. It's a $1 trillion fiscal time bomb that raises costs on families and individuals, penalizes small businesses, cuts benefits to seniors and raises taxes 12 times on the middle class.
The health care legislation recently signed by President Obama is also historic in its unprecedented ability to sanction someone for not purchasing a product. Never before in American history has Congress required an American citizen to buy something as the price of citizenship, like this bill requires someone to buy health care.
That's why only minutes after the President signed the bill into law, I joined with a dozen other state Attorneys General and filed a law suit challenging the legality of Obamacare. This legislation is an unprecedented overreach by President Obama and Congress and as Attorney General I am duty sworn to oppose it.
Not surprisingly, the President, Congressional Democrats, liberal special interest groups and even Governor Granholm have lined up to oppose our suit to stop the health care bill.
Please add your voice to mine by forwarding this email to five friends or family members and asking them to sign our petition at www.MikeCox2010.com.
Together we will remind the President, the Congress and the Governor that the Constitution still limits their power!
Michigan AG Says Health Care Overhaul Goes Too Far
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox says the landmark health care overhaul signed into law by President Barack Obama exceeds the limits of what Washington can force Americans to do.
The Republican attorney general and gubernatorial candidate joined attorneys general from 12 other states Tuesday in suing the federal government. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Pensacola, Fla., claims the overhaul is unconstitutional.
The lawsuit was filed minutes after the Democratic president signed the 10-year, $938 billion bill the House passed Sunday night. Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is taking the lead in the legal challenge.
Cox says in a statement that the overhaul is an "unprecedented overreach by Congress and the President."
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Mike Cox v. Chris Matthews on Health Care
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Matthews attempted to dispute Cox by invoking segregation and the 1964 civil rights legislation and said Congress had previously regulated interstate commerce in a comparable way by forcing hotel owners to sell rooms to blacks. An incredulous Cox noted that Matthews' example was a non-sequitur and that it was comparing "apples and oranges" since a black customer was not being forced to buy a room from any establishment by federal legislation.
Matthews tried to salvage his argument claiming that the civil rights legislation showed that the federal government had much sway in shaping interstate commerce, at which point Cox, again, patiently explained the difference between refusing service to minorities and forcing individuals to spend their personal savings on a service or product.
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Cox, Granholm Spar over Health Care
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Cox Spokesman John Selleck: "Governor Granholm, of course, was attorney general before Attorney General Cox and she knows well and good that state laws allows and, actually, encourages the attorney general to intervene in cases when it's going to benefit the people of Michigan."
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Dems Fight AG Suit Against Health Care
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Michigan Democrats are criticizing Republican Attorney General Mike Cox for filing a legal challenge to the new federal health care law.
Michigan Democratic Chairman Mark Brewer, Progress Michigan executive director David Holtz and Ryan Irvin of Organizing for America protested Thursday outside Cox's office near the Capitol to express their disapproval...
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Health Reform Could Mean $500 Million Unfunded Medicaid Mandate for Michigan
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Medicaid coverage for the poor is already a budget-busting cost in Michigan and most other states, but could get much bigger under the sweeping changes that will come with the federal health care reform bill that appears likely to become law. Lurking within it for Michigan is a potential balloon payment of $500 million in a decade...
Attorney General Mike Cox, who has announced he'll challenge the constitutionality of the bill's mandates for individuals to buy health insurance, also has criticized favored treatment the U.S. Senate version would give Nebraska by picking up all of that state's Medicaid costs.
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Closing
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