NJ Stinks
03-21-2010, 07:56 PM
From the Washington Post website:
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Republicans gave sour denunciations of the health-care bill. Rep. Dave Camp (Mich.), the ranking Republican on the Ways and Means Committee, proclaimed that Americans "don't want the federal government involved in personal health care" -- a claim that would seem to rule out Medicare.
Slaughter, in turn, accused one of the Republicans of trying to abolish Medicare, while Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) offered his view that the Republican "prescription for health care was 'Take two tax breaks and call me in the morning.' "
Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Tex.) told McGovern that he should "be embarrassed" about the high insurance premiums in his home state. McGovern retorted that Massachusetts is "paying for people in Texas" who don't have insurance.
Rep. Pete Sessions (Tex.), head of the House Republicans' 2010 campaign effort, vowed to change things "next year, when we're in the majority." Soon after that, he announced, "I'm a 'no' vote" and walked out of the room.
"I was going to put you as 'undecided,' " McGovern retorted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/20/AR2010032003224.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2010032001699
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Republicans gave sour denunciations of the health-care bill. Rep. Dave Camp (Mich.), the ranking Republican on the Ways and Means Committee, proclaimed that Americans "don't want the federal government involved in personal health care" -- a claim that would seem to rule out Medicare.
Slaughter, in turn, accused one of the Republicans of trying to abolish Medicare, while Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) offered his view that the Republican "prescription for health care was 'Take two tax breaks and call me in the morning.' "
Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Tex.) told McGovern that he should "be embarrassed" about the high insurance premiums in his home state. McGovern retorted that Massachusetts is "paying for people in Texas" who don't have insurance.
Rep. Pete Sessions (Tex.), head of the House Republicans' 2010 campaign effort, vowed to change things "next year, when we're in the majority." Soon after that, he announced, "I'm a 'no' vote" and walked out of the room.
"I was going to put you as 'undecided,' " McGovern retorted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/20/AR2010032003224.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2010032001699