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Pelosi ally Murtha wouldn't support health bills
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Sep 04, 2009 07:30pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Susan Crabtree |
| News Date | Saturday, September 5, 2009 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "One of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) closest allies has said he wouldn’t vote for any version of the healthcare bill under consideration right now and predicted Congress wouldn’t pass legislation until early next year.
Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), who is a co-sponsor of a healthcare bill that includes a single-payer provision, told constituents last night during a teleconference that Democrats still have a lot of work to do to produce a viable healthcare reform measure.
“The bill hasn’t passed yet,” Murtha said, according to an account of the conference reported in the Johnstown, Pa. Tribune-Democrat. “Everybody thinks this bill is concrete. I haven’t seen a bill I would vote for.”
He also said he would not support a bill that pays for abortions.
“Every bill I’ve seen has the high language that prohibits [paying for] abortion,” he said. “Any health-care bill that passes will not have physicians reimbursed from pubic taxpayers’ money for abortion.”
Murtha has resisted calls from GOP opponents to host a live in-person townhall in his district over the August recess. Instead, he has visited several healthcare clinics and last night held a telephone townhall meeting for district residents in Cambria, Somerset, Indiana, Fayette and Westmoreland counties." |
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