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Senator Voinovich: 'I Am Not a Vote For The Health Care Bill'
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Jan 20, 2010 02:03am |
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| Author | Karen Travers |
| News Date | Monday, January 18, 2010 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | When asked about the Massachusetts Senate race and the future of health care reform, Voinovich said he is still opposed to the pending legislation.
“That’s out of the question -- I am not a vote for the health care bill, period,” he told reporters.
Voinovich said he discussed with the president his idea for a bipartisan commission to focus on bringing down the national debt and increasing revenue. He said Obama’s main concern with that suggestion is whether there is support for it.
Voinovich said that while many people are opposed to that, he asks, “what are you for?”
“That’s the dilemma the president has -- he’d like to do the commission but the concern he has is he won’t have the support that’s necessary to get the commission done in the Congress,” he said. “And if he doesn’t get some kind of consensus on a commission than he’s going to have to move forward to do something as an alternative to address the problem that I believe would not be as successful as if we could do it on a bipartisan basis.” |
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