House committee votes to repeal CLASS Act
The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted Wednesday to repeal the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act by a count of 33-17. The full House may now vote to repeal the program as early as the end of 2011.
Democratic Reps. Mike Ross of Arkansas, Jim Matheson of Utah and John Barrow of Georgia broke from their party’s support of CLASS and voted for the repeal.
The White House this past October said it did not support a repeal of CLASS after the Department of Health and Human Services shutdown implementation of the program. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said her agency had not “identified a way to make CLASS work at this time.”
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