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Emanuel visits Senate to press health reform
By Jeffrey Young
Posted: 06/23/09 08:18 PM


White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel visited Capitol Hill late Tuesday afternoon to meet with Democratic senators on healthcare reform.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) invited Emanuel to the Capitol to sit down with Democratic leaders and Democrats on the Finance and Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committees, said Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.).

Senators emerging from the meeting insisted that no decisions had been made about the contents of the healthcare reform bills, when to proceed or whether Democrats should abandon attempts to attract bipartisan support.

“This was not a crunch-time, decision-making meeting,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). “It was: Here’s where HELP is at, here’s where Finance is at, here’s where the White House is at and we’re all talking. We’re singing from the same hymnal.”

“It was a very good meeting. I was very pleased,” Baucus said.

Lawmakers and the White House need to be in closer contact because Congress is making progress on moving legislation forward because the moment when the real decisions will have to be made is fast approaching, Baucus said.


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