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Politicians React to Obamacare Ruling
The opinions about the U.S. Supreme Court's decision essentially upholding the Affordable Care Act are for the most part, along party lines: Republicans don't like it, while Democrats are more than pleased.

Congressman Aaron Schock is one of those who says he's disappointed in the Supreme Court ruling.

Schock told reporters on a conference call he still believes it's unpopular and unconstitutional, and says the Supreme Court and the president will find that out soon enough.

"The American people have the opportunity to weigh in this November," Schock said Thursday. "And based on their reaction since the law was passed two years ago, it was one of the seminal issues at the mid-term elections last cycle, was the opposition to the president's health care law."

Schock says he was surprised that Justices Kennedy and Roberts were on the side they were, given they were the ones that asked the toughest questions the day earlier this year he sat in on one day of arguments, and that they seemed the most undecided.

Meanwhile, Schock's Congressional neighbor, Congressman Bobby Schilling, issued a statement saying he's disappointed, too, and that he'll do everything he can to help overturn the law legislatively.

Schilling's November election opponent, Cheri Bustos, though, says she's pleased with the ruling and it's time for Washington to, quote, "move on."
06 29 12 by Newsroom
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