Schumer asks for all 100 senators to meet on health care
Source: Politico
By SEUNG MIN KIM and JENNIFER HABERKORN 06/16/2017 10:37 AM EDT Updated 06/16/2017 11:42 AM EDT
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer just wants the Senate to talk it out over health care.
In a new letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the New York Democrat is asking all 100 senators to gather in the Old Senate Chamber next week to discuss health care a tactic Democrats hope will pressure Republicans to drop their push to repeal Obamacare and instead work on fixes to the seven-year-old law.
The U.S. Senate has long been considered the worlds greatest deliberative body and, as members of that body, we should each support open and robust debate, Schumer wrote to McConnell on behalf of his 48-member caucus. That is why we are dismayed at reports that there will be no public hearings on your proposed changes to the American health care system.
The letter was obtained by POLITICO in advance of its release.
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Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/16/senate-obamacare-repeal-chuck-schumer-239634
chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)OnDoutside
(19,970 posts)COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)"Nice idea, Chuck. Fuck you".
hibbing
(10,109 posts)You have the other party arguing about the proposal not being cruel enough.
Peace
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)because their refusal to have an open discussion about their plan is out in the open. Commercials are being written already.
volstork
(5,403 posts)Senator Schumer.
BarbD
(1,193 posts)turbinetree
(24,720 posts)HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)Not without Effing up the Republican's tax aspirations, which they aren't going to do.
uncle ray
(3,157 posts)they are almost always in support of the idea. too bad the repub congress doesn't listen to their voters.
elleng
(131,106 posts)The idjots lost that one years ago.
elmac
(4,642 posts)lark
(23,155 posts)It's not really a strategy because he knows the turtle will probably say no. Repugs want to keep Trumpcare hidden so that we can't effectively agitate against it. This is setting up the mid-terms, maybe sprinkled with just a tiny dollop of hope that a bad thing can be prevented.
Vinca
(50,303 posts)Time to get back to killing the American people.
turbinetree
(24,720 posts)Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)bs to bed then as soon as the senate GOP refuses.