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Democrats protest Senate Republican healthcare secrecy
Reuters ^ | Jun 19, 2017 | Susan Cornwell | WASHINGTON

Posted on 06/19/2017 5:00:16 PM PDT by mdittmar

U.S. Democrats took to the Senate floor on Monday to throw a spotlight on behind-the-scenes efforts by the Republican majority to repeal former President Barack Obama's healthcare law, known as Obamacare.

In a series of floor motions, inquiries and lengthy speeches, Democrats criticized the closed-door meetings that Republicans have been holding to craft a replacement for Obamacare, formally known as the Affordable Care Act. They called for open committee hearings and more time to consider the bill before a Senate vote, which Republicans say could come in the next two weeks, although a draft bill has yet to emerge publicly.

Lacking the votes to derail or change the Republican process, the maneuvers by the Democratic minority seemed more aimed at highlighting Republican efforts on a controversial issue. Polls have said that a majority of Americans disapprove of the Obamacare replacement that has passed the House of Representatives and that Senate Republicans are now considering.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said that the closed-door Republican meetings on healthcare amounted to "the most glaring departure from normal legislative procedure that I have ever seen."

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 115th; aca; ahca; hypocrisy; repealandreplace
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1 posted on 06/19/2017 5:00:16 PM PDT by mdittmar
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Shoes on the other foot.


2 posted on 06/19/2017 5:01:55 PM PDT by DownInFlames
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So? The Democrats set the precedent then don’t like it? Quit setting precedents.


3 posted on 06/19/2017 5:03:52 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (We are getting even more than we voted for!)
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Ya gotta pass the bill to see what’s in it.


4 posted on 06/19/2017 5:04:19 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: mdittmar

Hard to get worse than what demonrats did.


5 posted on 06/19/2017 5:05:46 PM PDT by dforest
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They’ll have to vote for it, to know what’s in it.


6 posted on 06/19/2017 5:06:34 PM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it. MAGA!)
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To: DownInFlames

Sucks to be them...


7 posted on 06/19/2017 5:11:03 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: DownInFlames

Sucks to be them...


8 posted on 06/19/2017 5:11:05 PM PDT by fhayek
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9 posted on 06/19/2017 5:15:45 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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What goes around comes around


10 posted on 06/19/2017 5:15:46 PM PDT by Ronald77
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The Dems are pathological. Congenital liars that have nothing but contempt for all Americans. They really think we are stupid.


11 posted on 06/19/2017 5:17:50 PM PDT by jurroppi1 (The Left doesnÂ’t have ideas, it has cliches. H/T Flick Lives)
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To: DownInFlames

Paging Nancy Pelosi wisdom.


12 posted on 06/19/2017 5:19:54 PM PDT by blackdog
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Remember when Rodham conducted all those 'secret meetings'?


13 posted on 06/19/2017 5:24:27 PM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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Seems stupid to write a bill in public around people who have already stated that their only goal is to prevent it from passing.


14 posted on 06/19/2017 5:28:38 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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Geese and ganders. Pelosi and Ryan. Obeyme and Trump. Gonna have to pass it to see what’s in it, right Nancy? And the media laughed when the democrats changed the locks on the offices to keep republicans out of conferences. The republicans should bring the finished legislation into session with nice, cold pork shoulder laid out on a platter with congealed fat and aspic. That would go down in history as the greatest turnabout ever. Dems are whining? Republicans are WINNING!


15 posted on 06/19/2017 5:29:39 PM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America)
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So we’re now fine with concocting a major health care bill in secret? I’m not. Just because the Democrats are hypocrites doesn’t justify what the GOPe is doing


16 posted on 06/19/2017 5:32:04 PM PDT by WilliamIII
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As someone famously said, “We have to pass it to see what’s in it.” The rules are ALWAYS different for lunatic Democrats.


17 posted on 06/19/2017 5:33:04 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not tired of Winning.)
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Did anyone see one our Congressman this weekend speak about the Senate? It was on Fox. He laid the blame squarely on the Filibuster ( Mansfield / Byrd ) and sort of hinted it needed to be gotten rid of since we have had essentially one bill a year aka reconciliation spending and not even real budgets.

It is time for McConnell to exercise the "Nuclear Option" or find a replacement for him...

18 posted on 06/19/2017 5:35:54 PM PDT by taildragger (Do you hear the people singing? The Song of Angry Men!....)
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The gutless Pubes will fold, in 10...9...8...


19 posted on 06/19/2017 5:37:44 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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I don’t trust it either. This is the GOPe hiding what is likely big-government, leftist legislation.


20 posted on 06/19/2017 5:39:33 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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