Posted on 07/29/2009 6:15:31 PM PDT by Maelstorm
Republican and Democratic senators negotiating financial details of healthcare reform have made great progress and are on the verge of a deal, a key Republican senator said on Wednesday.
"We have made great progress. Every day we make some progress," Sen. Charles Grassley, one of the three Republicans from Senate Finance Committee involved in the talks to overhaul the healthcare system, told NPR radio.
"Will we get it done so we can get a bill to the other members by this weekend because there is a certain time you've got to give people to study it? We're on the edge, and almost there," the Iowa Republican said.
President Barack Obama has pinpointed healthcare as his top legislative priority and has pushed lawmakers to quickly reach a deal to rein in healthcare costs, improve care and cover most of the 46 million uninsured Americans.
Obama had asked the Senate and House to come up with initial draft bills before they leave for the August recess but this deadline looks increasingly unlikely to be met.
Lawmakers "wanted to do it right," said Grassley, noting that lawmakers are trying to revamp one-sixth of the economy.
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Until they resurrect it in the next Congress, starting in Jan 2011. Taking bets? I won't even take any that it goes down THIS time.
I listened for about 10 minutes tonight (The signal weakens in the PM).
Regarding the deathcare plan, he said: “We stopped it. We won. The other side (Obama, Pelosi Reid) lost. Us 1, Obama 0.”
He also went ahead and called them out for the communists they are. He seemed pretty confident that the issue was dead.
Hey I understand the anger but the truth is we only have a handful of bad eggs in the party now. Most of the weak conservatives are gone now. We just need to keep the ones who waver a bit in line and let them know we are paying attention to what they are doing.
Right on!
Pubs can’t stop it
Lieberman and Sanders will vote with the Dems
111th Congress (2009-2011)
Majority Party: Democrat (58 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (40 seats)
Other Parties: 1 Independent; 1 Independent Democrat
Total Seats: 100
Note: Senator Arlen Specter was reelected in 2004 as a Republican, and became a Democrat on April 30, 2009. Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut was reelected in 2006 as an independent candidate, and became an Independent Democrat. Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont was elected in 2006 as an Independent.
This is my ‘representation’:
Governor: Deval Patrick
US Senator: Ted Kennedy
US Senator: John Kerry
US Representative: Barney Frank
Me so proud!!!
Good, a lot of you are seeing the GOP for what they really are.
Remind me again why we let Iowa and New Hampshire decide who is going to be OUR candidate when they are both a couple of liberal sh!tholes?
Why can’t we let Texas, Oklahoma, Idaho and Wyoming start the process of picking our candidates?
RNC? Republican Presidential Committee? Buehler?
I will give Grassley credit for one thing though. He did introduce an amendment that would have stripped all money for ACORN out of the porkulus bill. Naturally, it didn't fly.
Grassley is only workig with required formalities. He does not approve of this legislation.
Grassley is only working with required formalities. He does not approve of this legislation.
Someone please load the “IT’S A TRAP” graphic.
You get a cr8ppy ‘bipartisan’ bill through the Senate, they muck it up in conference with the leftist Waxman bill, and you have an unholy godawful mess of a bill that Congress will vote on since you have at least 218 House lemmings and 51 Senate lemmings.
What a freakin idiot!
Well, we kissed those away a long time...Kiss even the high premiumns we have today away and watch the government decide who will live and die!
my thoughts exactly. Get them going, put in legal reform, then demand all the other things that would cut costs without the national health care.
It’s the same thing over and over again. First, the communists scream and yell for single payer socialized health care. Republicans say no. Not a principled, reasoned no, just not “as it is”. Then after a couple of weeks, the commies go to the bench and in come the moderates to “do it right”, and to “get things done”. Some republicans defect and join the dems, and lo and behold, the leftist cause is incrementally advanced again. Alinsky 101, etc., etc.
The conservative cause is never advanced. Government gets bigger. Always.
There is nothing about nationalized health care that any republican could possibly support. Yet, we will see some number of them vote for it.
Hearing from some staff of our delegation that they don’t believe the votes are there to pass now and after recess there will be even less. If it is not passed in September, it will be starting to run into appropriations that have to be done for various agencies for 1 October and then it will run into the election starting up in Nov/Dec and never will pass.
Inhofe is leading the fight against Cap and Trade and has said several times it will never pass the Senate while back here in Oklahoma. Inhofe is predicting on 35 votes FOR Cap and Trade.
Jim DeMint, Senator from SC, is leading the fight against Obamacare and looks like he has the same scorecard of Dems that won’t vote for it like Inhofe does.
Two very Conservative Senators leading the fight against and on Obamacare, Demint is joined by Coburn and the other doctor in the Senate I believe from Idaho.
Talked last week with a Congressional aide who believes the DemocRATs are going to get in a huge fight over this and sure enough it is happening. They said the Blue Dogs and the Progressives will never agree. They think it would have to pass the House in huge numbers to have any hope in the Senate and if they get the vote delayed until the recess the bill as written will never be passed. Sure enough this week it has been delayed until after recess.
We need to keep every bit of pressure on especially at the Town Halls. When they are confronted by people that took the time to physically come to a meeting, it will make much more of impression then a phone call or email. We have to stay vigilant because like so many others, I don’t trust the RATs even a little.
“Maybe I’m out of my mind, but while listening to Michael Savage tonight I believe him when he said healthcare is dead.”
Healthcare is dead FOR NOW.
What we need to do is burn up the phone lines on Grassley so he gets it and healthcare STAYS DEAD.
These idiot GOPers are saving the Democrats from getting hoisted on their own petard. Real idiots.
Good points! Any GOP that votes for this plan should be expelled immediately.
“Wish the hell they had done that on Cap & Tax! “
Except for 8 traitors, they pretty much did, and the hell the ones who voted for it was a good lesson for this issue.
I am hoping Grassley is inserting a poison pill here. For the most part, I trust him so this is confusing. I can’t believe he’d sell us out.
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