Republicans attempting to stall healthcare debate - 2 months of debate

[Lone_Star_Dem]

Senate Republicans are urging the chamber to slow down its debate of the healthcare bill this fall, reviving a tactic they used this summer to stall the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Sonia Sotomayor.

Republican leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) led the charge Wednesday, telling reporters at a mid-afternoon press conference that his conference will insist that the bill go through a “couple of months” of debate on the chamber floor — and only after it is analyzed by the Congressional Budget Office and published online.

Harry Reid (D-Nev.) promised “sufficient time” to debate the bill, but also accused Republicans of simply wanting to kill the measure.

Republicans tried to slow Sotomayor’s confirmation process this summer, but Judiciary Committee Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) stuck to a weeklong schedule in mid-July that put the final floor vote just before the August recess. The GOP had been trying to push the final vote into September.

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“Senate Republicans are going to insist that this be a real Senate debate, a multiweek debate that gives everyone on both sides an opportunity to freely amend this measure and the American people an opportunity to fully understand what's in it.”

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/63105-senate-gop-insisting-on-time-for-healthcare-debate

[AlinPA]

1. Harry will disappoint. He will bow to McConnell. nt

[annabanana]

2. May they have the same success as they did with Sotomayor. .

That is

squat

[onethatcares]

3. fuckem, we pay our elected representatives to do just that.

if they have to work longer than 16 hours a week, to damn bad. They should be out there shutting down the republicants, not kissing ass. I say LET'S GIVE THEM A REAL SENATE DEBATE, NO ONE GOES HOME THIS MONTH.

[Vinca]

4. At 123 deaths a day, that shakes out to 7,503 for November and December.

Republicans are a death panel.

[alc]

5. use the debate to start 1/1/2010

I think Baucus starts 2011 and ramps up to full in 2015, and HR 3200 doesn't start until 2013. repubs are trying to delay until it dies, but dems don't seem too concerned about starting ASAP either.

[lee tilson]

6. By "get it right" on healthcare, the Republicans mean "ignore the evidence."

Where were Mitch McConnell and the Republicans the last time
there was a trillion dollar decision and we needed Congress to
"get it right"

http://tinyurl.com/lee-tilson-get-it-right