Posted on 09/08/2009 4:35:58 PM PDT by Baladas
ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: After emerging from a nearly hour meeting with the President, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that there is now 90% agreement on the way forward for health care reform.
“Even before the August recess, 80 percent of health care is already done,” Reid said, “In our conversations today, we think we're up to 90 percent of things there are agreed upon. We have 10 percent that we need to work on, and we can do that.”
Pelosi and Reid sat down with the President and the Vice President for Oval Office this afternoon and emerged in front of reporters upbeat.
“The president and vice president were very positive,” Reid said, “And it's in keeping with the conversations I've had with my members the past week; that is, we're reenergized, we're ready to do health care reform.”
Pelosi said it is an exciting time and there is “plenty to work from” for the Finance Committee to act.
Reid said he, like the White House, has not seen a copy of Senator Baucus’s draft bill yet.
The Majority Leader said that they are working on the 10% areas of disagreement and said they are still approaching this in the form of bipartisanship but did not rule out reconciliation.
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What I would give to see that Marine plant his foot in both their a$$es.
Call?
ALL IN.
They’ve got nothing. These are the same tactics they used to get stimulus passed - lots of impromptu pressers declaring that they “have the votes”, trying desperately to give political cover to fence-sitters who could legitimately put it over the top. The same is going on here. If they had the votes, they’d vote it in before anyone changes their mind.
They got nothin’.
That's when the shooting starts. People will take only so much.
OK Harry, PUBLISH the contents of what is in “90% Agreement” thus far.
Reid, Pelosi and Obama are NOT listening to the American people!
Bu then, do they really care?
lol
that one’s even better! at least now we dont have to look at his ugly mug!
as much as i can’t stand the guy, he did have a good sense of humor about how horrible his predictions turned out to be.
Lie lie lie! if they had the votes it would’ve already been voted on!
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