Well, well, well.. Seems the Dems have a very short memory. They are complaining that they are being locked out of the meetings GOP Senators are having to create a draft of the Senate bill for reforming the failed Obama care.
Now, nothing is stopping them from doing the same, and this is a draft and has had no votes (which is something the GOP should have created and drafted sometime in the past 7 years) so it's not passed and it's not out of committee. Once it's brought out it should be reviewed and voted on.
But it's really rich for dems to complain about this.
Fauxcahantus seems to have a short memory of her heritage and her teams wanton hypocrisy.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Friday ripped Senate Republicans in an interview with "CBS This Morning" for drafting their version of the bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare behind closed doors without any input from Democrats.
"Right now, the Senate Republican leadership has 13 men locked behind doors, negotiating what they're going to do on a healthcare bill — won't let Democrats in the room to even see the bill," Warren said.
Prompted by CBS host Jeff Glor that President Trump had called the House bill "mean," Warren responded by blasting the president for holding a Rose Garden celebration with GOP lawmakers following its passage.
"That's the same bill that he threw the party for, right after it passed?" Warren asked. "We need to be able to see this bill, not to decide a month later that it’s mean after it becomes law."
"This is a bill that's going to touch every American family," Warren continued. "Everybody who's got an elderly relative in a nursing home, everybody who has a child with special needs, these cuts to Medicaid will touch millions of families."
On Sunday, Republicans announced that they saw a path to repealing ObamaCare through the Senate. If the Senate bill passes, the two bills will go through a reconciliation process.
Warren, one of the most liberal members of the Senate, ripped the House bill shortly after it passed.
"A health care bill that destroys care & affordable coverage for millions — seriously? What planet are these guys living on?!" Warren tweeted in March.
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/338...ealth-care-bill
BUT.. here is the DEMS locking out the GOP of the discussions on the conference bill that reconciles the two passed bills in the senate and house.
C-SPAN Demands Democrats Open Secret Health Reform Talks
If there is one institution in Washington whose integrity is unquestioned, it is C-SPAN. The network calls it straight down the middle by not calling it at all, and is treated with the same respect by Democrats, Republicans, and independents that it treats the Democrats, Republicans, and independents who call in every morning. From gavel-to-gavel coverage of the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, uninterrupted coverage of important congressional hearings and airing of various political press conferences and seminars, C-SPAN provides an important service to every American voter—bringing your government to you and providing the sunshine open government necessitates.
Unfortunately, the network can cover only those congressional meetings held in the public. Voters hoping to follow the process of the House and Senate working out the differences of their respective healthcare reform bills are left in the dark. C-SPAN will not be covering the House-Senate conference on the legislation because there will not be any such conference. As reported by the Associated Press, Congressional Quarterly, USA Today, the Washington Post, and, not insignificantly, Peter Roff with U.S. News & World Report, House and Senate Democrats will negotiate the legislation in private, far away from the prying eyes of Capitol Hill Republicans and far away from prying cameras.
Enter C-SPAN.
In a December 30 letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and House Minority Leader John Boehner, C-SPAN Chairman and CEO Brian Lamb formally requested that congressional leaders open up the healthcare negotiations to the media.
"President Obama, Senate and House leaders, many of your rank-and-file members, and the nation's editorial pages have all talked about the value of transparent discussions on reforming the nation's health care system," Lamb wrote. "Now that the process moves to the critical stage of reconciliation between the Chambers, we respectfully request that you allow the public full access, through television, to legislation that will affect the lives of every single American."
That Democrats want to work on the bill in secret is no surprise. Poll after poll has shown the legislation to be wildly unpopular with voters and we all saw what happened when everyday Americans had the opportunity to voice their opinion to their elected officials during the August recess—bedlam.
"No one knows what goes on behind closed doors," country singer Charlie Rich reminded us in his 1973 hit song.
So far, that's where things stand with the final negotiations of the healthcare legislation, just as it had for much of the issue's legislative journey. Even while Reid declared in November that transparency is "one of the guiding principles of health insurance reform," Democrats sought to work out the final details of the bill in secret and rush a new bill through before the American people know what hit them.
Republicans, all too familiar to being locked out by Democrats, aren't holding their breath—and Lamb's letter has yet to receive a reply. C-SPAN's open call for full transparency is a highly unusual move for a media organization that steadfastly refuses to take sides, demonstrating how far Democrats have gone in cloaking the healthcare bill with more secrecy than even the Washington Wizards locker room.
It also boxes the Democrats in—it will be awfully hard for any Democrat to accuse C-SPAN of being the research arm of the Republican Party.
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/dou...th-reform-talks
Now, nothing is stopping them from doing the same, and this is a draft and has had no votes (which is something the GOP should have created and drafted sometime in the past 7 years) so it's not passed and it's not out of committee. Once it's brought out it should be reviewed and voted on.
But it's really rich for dems to complain about this.
Fauxcahantus seems to have a short memory of her heritage and her teams wanton hypocrisy.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Friday ripped Senate Republicans in an interview with "CBS This Morning" for drafting their version of the bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare behind closed doors without any input from Democrats.
"Right now, the Senate Republican leadership has 13 men locked behind doors, negotiating what they're going to do on a healthcare bill — won't let Democrats in the room to even see the bill," Warren said.
Prompted by CBS host Jeff Glor that President Trump had called the House bill "mean," Warren responded by blasting the president for holding a Rose Garden celebration with GOP lawmakers following its passage.
"That's the same bill that he threw the party for, right after it passed?" Warren asked. "We need to be able to see this bill, not to decide a month later that it’s mean after it becomes law."
"This is a bill that's going to touch every American family," Warren continued. "Everybody who's got an elderly relative in a nursing home, everybody who has a child with special needs, these cuts to Medicaid will touch millions of families."
On Sunday, Republicans announced that they saw a path to repealing ObamaCare through the Senate. If the Senate bill passes, the two bills will go through a reconciliation process.
Warren, one of the most liberal members of the Senate, ripped the House bill shortly after it passed.
"A health care bill that destroys care & affordable coverage for millions — seriously? What planet are these guys living on?!" Warren tweeted in March.
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/338...ealth-care-bill
BUT.. here is the DEMS locking out the GOP of the discussions on the conference bill that reconciles the two passed bills in the senate and house.
C-SPAN Demands Democrats Open Secret Health Reform Talks
If there is one institution in Washington whose integrity is unquestioned, it is C-SPAN. The network calls it straight down the middle by not calling it at all, and is treated with the same respect by Democrats, Republicans, and independents that it treats the Democrats, Republicans, and independents who call in every morning. From gavel-to-gavel coverage of the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, uninterrupted coverage of important congressional hearings and airing of various political press conferences and seminars, C-SPAN provides an important service to every American voter—bringing your government to you and providing the sunshine open government necessitates.
Unfortunately, the network can cover only those congressional meetings held in the public. Voters hoping to follow the process of the House and Senate working out the differences of their respective healthcare reform bills are left in the dark. C-SPAN will not be covering the House-Senate conference on the legislation because there will not be any such conference. As reported by the Associated Press, Congressional Quarterly, USA Today, the Washington Post, and, not insignificantly, Peter Roff with U.S. News & World Report, House and Senate Democrats will negotiate the legislation in private, far away from the prying eyes of Capitol Hill Republicans and far away from prying cameras.
Enter C-SPAN.
In a December 30 letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and House Minority Leader John Boehner, C-SPAN Chairman and CEO Brian Lamb formally requested that congressional leaders open up the healthcare negotiations to the media.
"President Obama, Senate and House leaders, many of your rank-and-file members, and the nation's editorial pages have all talked about the value of transparent discussions on reforming the nation's health care system," Lamb wrote. "Now that the process moves to the critical stage of reconciliation between the Chambers, we respectfully request that you allow the public full access, through television, to legislation that will affect the lives of every single American."
That Democrats want to work on the bill in secret is no surprise. Poll after poll has shown the legislation to be wildly unpopular with voters and we all saw what happened when everyday Americans had the opportunity to voice their opinion to their elected officials during the August recess—bedlam.
"No one knows what goes on behind closed doors," country singer Charlie Rich reminded us in his 1973 hit song.
So far, that's where things stand with the final negotiations of the healthcare legislation, just as it had for much of the issue's legislative journey. Even while Reid declared in November that transparency is "one of the guiding principles of health insurance reform," Democrats sought to work out the final details of the bill in secret and rush a new bill through before the American people know what hit them.
Republicans, all too familiar to being locked out by Democrats, aren't holding their breath—and Lamb's letter has yet to receive a reply. C-SPAN's open call for full transparency is a highly unusual move for a media organization that steadfastly refuses to take sides, demonstrating how far Democrats have gone in cloaking the healthcare bill with more secrecy than even the Washington Wizards locker room.
It also boxes the Democrats in—it will be awfully hard for any Democrat to accuse C-SPAN of being the research arm of the Republican Party.
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/dou...th-reform-talks
