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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Jan 20, 2010 05:48pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, January 20, 2010 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) on Wednesday walked back comments he previously made that the current healthcare reform negotiations are "dead."
Frank said that the election of Scott Brown (R-Mass.) as the 41st GOP senator would render the current negotiations dead because Senate Democrats would lose their filibuster-proof majority.
"I have realized that my statement last night was more pessimistic than is called for, although I still regard the fact that the Republicans have now elected a 41st Senator as a serious obstacle to getting health care done," Frank said in a release today.
House Democratic leaders have vowed to complete the healthcare negotiations despite Brown's election and are now weighing a number of alternative means to pass the bill that would bypass the need for another Senate vote that requires a 60-senator majority.
Here is more from Frank:
I was reacting – perhaps overreacting – to proposals I had heard from a variety of sources that we do things to facilitate the passage of a health care bill that would have sought in the short-term to neutralize yesterday’s election – for example delaying the certification of Senator-elect Scott Brown, or using the vote of Senator Kirk to try to get things done before Senator-elect Brown could be seated
Democratic leaders, including President Barack Obama, have ruled out pushing the bill through Congress before Brown is seated. |
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