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Rangel: We Will Pass Health Care
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Jan 18, 2010 05:17pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Michael McAuliff |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Daily News |
| News Date | Monday, January 18, 2010 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
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Martha Coakley may lose the Democrats’ 60-vote, filibuster-proof majority tomorrow night, but powerful Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel says no how no way will that kill health care reform.
“We will have health reform regardless of what happens in Massachusetts,” Rangel told our Michael Saul.
Sources have confirmed for The Mouth that the framework of reform is done, with Democrats meeting today to see what tweaks need to be made to ensure the needed 218 votes in the House.
Rangel’s remarks go a step further than comments by Rep. Eliot Engel (D-Bronx), who believed Democrats would finally get their act together because of Coakley, and pass the health bill quick to stave off disaster.
Rangels words also suggest that even though Democrats deep-sixed one doomsday scenario to pass health care reform, they’ve got a new scheme now that unions are on board and a basic framework is in place.
Incidentally, Rangel continues to be annoyed at how the Senate took the whole process hostage, allowing it to get to this point.
“We have alternatives to this cockamamie 60 votes in the Senate. Doesn’t make any sense. It defies the Constitution. And 51 votes should govern whether we’re talking about 51% of the House of Representatives or 51% of the United States Senate,” Rangel said. “That makes sense to Americans. It doesn’t make a heck of a lot of sense to my Senator friends.”
And while Rangel admits his party and President Obama have taken a beating, he predicts they will want to run on health care.
“I think the President while he’s not doing well in the polls, as he pointed out, when the dust settles and people would actually see what’s in this health bill and how it affects tens of millions of people and how those that have insurance will have the opportunity… the benefits that’s in this bill after the political dust settles will make every Democrat proud to campaign on it,” he told Saul. |
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