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So here is a real a-hole of a Senator from Wisconsin. The Republicans authored a bill and passed by Congress forcing some of their employees to have to buy insurance from the exchange. In the past they would subsidize purchasing their staffs insurance from the Federal Government. Because they forgot to include that measure congress said we'll put the same money toward subsiding their purchase. So what does Ron Johnson do:

FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 2014

Johnson plans to sue over congressional staffer coverage

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson plans to file suit Monday challenging a move to allow congressional staffers to get a health care insurance subsidy.

Johnson, R-Oshkosh, indicated last fall he was laying the groundwork to file the suit after the federal Office of Personnel Management decided to allow congressional staffers to continue receiving employer contributions for their health care. The August ruling followed concerns from lawmakers a drafting error in the health care law would punish their aides by requiring them to cover the full cost of their insurance.

Rick Esenberg, president and general counsel of the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, is representing Johnson and a staffer who will file the suit Monday in the Eastern District of Wisconsin.

Esenberg said today the OPM decision gives congressional staffers special treatment after lawmakers passed a law putting them in the individual exchange and not expressly allowing them to receiver an employer subsidy.

“It was a confidence-building measure,” Esenberg said of the requirement. “It was something they decided to do in order to get the thing passed and now they don’t want to abide by it. The law doesn’t allow that.”

Paul Clement, a partner at Bancroft PLLC and former U.S. solicitor general, will join Johnson and Esenberg on Monday in Milwaukee for a news conference to discuss the suit, according to an advisory from the senator’s office.

http://dc.wispolitics.com/2014/01/johnson-plans-to-sue-over-congressional.html