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March 9, 2010
Four big obstacles still remain for Obamacare
Topics: Political News and commentariesFrom House Democrats' distrust of Senate Democrats, to Bart Stupak and his fellow pro-life Democrats, the fiscal moderates, and the hard-left Socialists wanting a government-run public option, with a little bit of luck and a lot of continued voter outrage, this miserable adventure should be coming to a (hopefully) "abrupt, and satisfyingly bad end very soon" (H/t - The Patriot Room):
Susan Ferrichio writes:
House Democratic leaders concede they do not have enough support to pass President Obama's health care package, but the party is hopeful it will come up with the 216 votes needed to pass the bill before the March 18 deadline set by the White House. But first they will have to clear a number of hurdles standing in the way of passage.Continue reading ...1. The Senate -- Looming large in the minds of nearly every House member are the 290 or so House bills the Senate has ignored since January 2009. Many House Democrats are refusing to pass the Senate's health care legislation without a guarantee that the Senate will take up a corrections bill using an exhaustive and potentially politically damaging parliamentary tactic that would require just 51 votes to pass it in their chamber. "There are too many deficiencies in the Senate bill for us to just go on faith," Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., said.
Posted by Richard at March 9, 2010 9:30 AM
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