| _______________________ |
What a shock! The initial thing out of the Republicans" side is Lamar Alexander and the monument of reconciliation--how we only dont have make have use of of that for healthcare. Sen. Alexander, you know what the "R" in COBRA stands for, right? You know that SCHIP upheld by settlement in 1997, right? [Update from Ezra: "This morning, Lamar Alexander pronounced that settlement has never been used for anything as big as health-care reform. Health-care remodel has a 10-year cost of about $950 billion. The Bush taxation cuts, that upheld by reconciliation, had a 10-year cost of about $1.8 trillion. Lamar Alexander voted for them."]
Healthcare remodel has consistently been upheld around reconciliation. And Lamar Alexander was ideally happy to have make have use of of settlement to pass the Bush taxation cuts. And, of course, he mischaracterizes the Dems" approach, as TPM describes:
Democrats have already upheld extensive legislation by unchanging sequence in both chambers. Two opposite bills. What they"re planning, tentatively, to do right away is have make have use of of settlement to have a little teenager changes to one of those bills.
A sign on the logistics. The limit runs from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., EST. The initial 4 hours...
Click here to review the complete article...
| _______________________ |
No comments:
Post a Comment