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| Last Edited | WesternDem Feb 28, 2008 01:45pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Thursday, February 28, 2008 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Away from the distorting glare of the campaign trail, away from the inflammatory rhetoric about socialized medicine and Hillarycare, garnished wages and millions left uncovered, a remarkable thing is happening in the national health-care debate.
An unlikely pair, Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden and Utah Republican Bob Bennett, have assembled a group of 12 senators, equally divided between the parties, to sign on to health-care legislation far more radical than anything the presidential candidates have proposed.
A dozen senators -- 13 for an instant, when Mississippi Republican Trent Lott signed on just before retiring -- may not sound like much. But this is, Wyden says, the biggest bipartisan group of senators ever to sponsor a measure for universal coverage.
They span the ideological spectrum from Michigan Democrat Debbie Stabenow to Idaho Republican Mike Crapo. The roster includes key Republicans: Minority Whip Lamar Alexander (Tenn.) and the ranking members of the finance and budget committees, Iowa's Chuck Grassley and New Hampshire's Judd Gregg. |
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