Posted on 10/09/2009 4:34:20 PM PDT by Scanian
WASHINGTON -- Senate leaders on Thursday announced a climactic Finance Committee vote next week on health care legislation, even as Democrats and Republicans kept feuding over its cost and breadth of coverage.
Majority Leader Harry Reid said the Finance Committee will vote Tuesday on a 10-year, $829-billion proposal that would expand coverage to 94 percent of eligible Americans-while reducing the federal deficit. A positive cost report on the legislation Wednesday from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office marked a turning point for its main author, Finance Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont.
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this entire Press release is a LIE .The BCBO reprot states it could not give hard estimates until the Bill is actaully written !
This Bauscu crap is a useless outline aka vapor bill !
Does this bill have to get one Republican vote to emerge from the committee?
Committee members:
Republicans
CHUCK GRASSLEY, IA
ORRIN G. HATCH, UT
OLYMPIA J. SNOWE, ME
JON KYL, AZ
JIM BUNNING, KY
MIKE CRAPO, ID
PAT ROBERTS, KS
JOHN ENSIGN, NV
MIKE ENZI, WY
JOHN CORNYN, TX
Democrats
MAX BAUCUS, MT
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER IV, WV
KENT CONRAD, ND
JEFF BINGAMAN, NM
JOHN F. KERRY, MA
BLANCHE L. LINCOLN, AR
RON WYDEN, OR
CHARLES E. SCHUMER, NY
DEBBIE STABENOW, MI
MARIA CANTWELL, WA
BILL NELSON, FL
ROBERT MENENDEZ, NJ
THOMAS CARPER, DE
Couple of wobblies among the Pubbies. Hit their phones hard!
It does not have to get one GOP vote, and can lose one or two Dems and still get out of committee.
This is one time I wish the R.P. leadership would play hardball with it’s members.
If any Republicans go over on this, they should be stripped of any positions and forbidden to take part on any policy development matters in the future.
Just bring them back to Freshman status and leave them there. When it’s time for the to run again, give them zero dollars and back a real Conservative against them in their next primaries.
Thank you.
Republicans are not the problem here.
They have stood steadfastly against this bill so far. There's been a slight waffling from Snowe but even she has said she is not voting yea.
The “GOP Leadership” should have long ago enforced party discipline.
One reason the Democrats have regained both Houses is they never let their wayward members cripple their ability to advance their national agenda. Meanwhile, the Pubbies were allowing people like Jim Jeffords and Arlen Specter (both of whom left the GOP caucus) to pursue their personal agendas at the expense of the party.
If the leadership can’t get its members to stay in line on critical issues, what good are they or the party they claim to lead? The party out of power has a great responsibility to wage more than token opposition. If the GOP can’t manage that, not only do its leaders need to be fired, but perhaps it should go the way of the Whigs.
Well, we’ll see. You may be right. If there are defectors, I say string them up (politically).
We’re on the same wave length Dez. Couldn’t agree more.
IMO, it’s the lack of explaining what Conservatism is, and sticking to it when implementing policy, that got us Obama.
I honestly shudder to think was four years of McCain would have done to Conservatism.
We may not be making headway right now, but it’s not at the expense of Conservative tenets. McCain would have been the same as castration of the party.
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