Forty-five House Democrats in the party’s moderate-to-conservative wing have protested theFixed for accuracy!secretive process by which party leaders in their chamber are developinglegislation to remake the health care system.The lawmakers, members of the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition, said they were “increasingly troubled” by their exclusion from the bill-writing process.
They expressed their concerns in a letter delivered Monday to three House committee chairmen writing the bill, which House leaders hope to pass this summer.
Representative Mike Ross, an Arkansas Democrat who is chairman of the coalition’s health task force, said: “We don’t need a select group of members of Congress or staff members writing this legislation. We don’t wanta briefing onthe billafter it’s written. We want to help write it.”
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Zandar, Editor-At-Large
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Obamacare,
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