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Landrieu: Bill on "life support"
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| Author | Carrie Budoff Brown |
| News Date | Thursday, January 28, 2010 04:35:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | If President Barack Obama hoped his State of the Union speech would revive the health care debate on Capitol Hill, signs of movement were not immediately apparent Thursday.
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) said health care reform “is on life support, unfortunately,” and the president should have been more specific with how Democrats should move forward.
“He should have been more clear, and I am hoping that in the next week or two he will because that is what it is going to take if it is at all possible to get it done," Landrieu told reporters. "Mailing in general suggestions, sending them over the transom, is not necessarily going to work.”
The president's criticism of the Senate in the speech was "a little strange, a little odd," Landrieu said.
"Moderate Senate Democrats, who give the Senate the 60 votes, come from states that have to appreciate a broad range of ideas," Landrieu said. For a president who ran on post-partisan platform, "it doesn't do a great service to then say everything the House caucus passes without Republican votes, the Senate should take. It is the reverse."
"He and his administration, his staff could step up a little bit of strengthening, tailoring their help to move this through Congress," she said.
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