Hatch: Senates ObamaCare repeal unlikely to go through committees

[riversedge]

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Source: the hill





By Jessie Hellmann - 05/09/17 04:00 PM EDT

© Victoria Sarno Jordan

The Senate's ObamaCare repeal bill is unlikely to go through the committee process, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said Tuesday.

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Senate Democrats last week urged Republicans to hold hearings on any potential legislation. Finance Committee ranking member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee ranking member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) reached out to Hatch and HELP Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) in a letter.

"The Senate Finance and HELP committees cannot abdicate our responsibility to hold public hearings on such sweeping health reform legislation," the Democrats wrote.

"Rather than continuing to work in secret, we urge you to make good on your stated preference and long successful history of bipartisan legislating, and hold public hearings on the devastating impact of TrumpCare."
Tags Lamar Alexander Patty Murray Orrin Hatch Ron Wyden .........................

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/332596-hatch-senates-obamacare-repeal-unlikely-to-go-through-committees

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So, seems it will be fairly secret--and rushed. Pence was in on the Senate Repub. meeting today. damn

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Are they using this

to distract from their Russian problem?

[JudyM]

3. Maybe... they're already using the Afghanistan threat for that, why not add more distraction?

[not fooled]

2. No surprise

They want to get this done in secret and then ram it through. The kochs are depending on it!

[lark]

4. Nothing good will emerge from that traitor infested swamp.

Only death and destruction and they will delight in that. At least they will until the elections. Hopefully we will even have them in the future, for whatever good that will do with Drumpf and Russia ensuring him a win, again. OMG!

[tenorly]

5. Great post.

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If even Ornery Hatch has no choice but to admit this effort is dead in the water, that has to be a good sign.

[riversedge]

6. Fixed. sorry, I had to leave for a while after posting and did not look at it.

[tenorly]

7. No sweat.

Mercury is, after all, in retrograde.

Hatch's statement was very revealing, and I'm grateful to you for posting it as I might not have found out otherwise.