Posted on 02/19/2010 4:17:13 PM PST by NoExpectations
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama is expected to publish his healthcare plan as early as Sunday or Monday, combining features of the two Democratic bills passed by the Senate and House of Representatives, congressional aides and healthcare advocates said on Friday.
The administration's bill will aim to jump-start the stalled healthcare overhaul and comes just days ahead of a planned televised White House summit with congressional Republicans, who are calling on Democrats to scrap the bills and start over with a far less sweeping proposal.
Democrats are struggling to push healthcare legislation over the finish line in the face of sagging public support and solid Republican opposition bolstered by recent election victories in Massachusetts, Virginia and New Jersey.
The legislation the White House will post on its website is expected to reflect common ground negotiated over the past several weeks by House and Senate Democratic leaders.
Those agreements are likely to be combined as a privileged budget reconciliation bill, which only needs a simple 51-vote majority to pass the 100-member Senate instead of the 60-vote supermajority that has become routine in the Senate and gives Republicans power to block the healthcare bill.
"I believe that's the path we are going to take," a senior congressional Democratic aide said.
But it is not clear, even to congressional Democrats, what the White House will include in its legislation and whether Obama will try to add proposals aimed at attracting at least some Republican support.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have not signed off on any final agreement, several Democratic aides have said.
"We are still waiting for the president to present to Leader Reid and Speaker Pelosi his plan," a Democratic leadership aide told Reuters.
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Not unless they can convince 51 members to commit political suicide.
Why in the WORLD are the Republicans even going to show up to this farce? Are they really that stupid?
The truth about the destruction of America!
Health Care plan revealed! A Must SEE
Panelists talked about the state of the U.S. economy and health care. They also responded to questions from members of the audience.
1 hour 32 min.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/291300-1
THIS SHOULD BE REQUIRED VIEWING
THE HUDSON INSTITUTE OR Hudson.org
presented “speakers” who spoke the truth about the destruction of America!
This covers the economy to the health care debate and the Unconstitutionality of what the obamanation is doing to America!
Couldn’t get the Steal-Care vampire through (but still trying), so it’s time for that all important Retirement Savings Summit!
(Isn’t it so terrible and “irresponsible” that folks have insufficient funds in their retirement savings? Time to make it manditory with the threats of jail-time and big fines.....Oh, and we’ll watch over all the private businesses too, to make sure all their employees comply....some neat little audits and threats will do just fine there too)
Hey, Obama, now I have a quesion for you. What does I-M-P-O-S-T-E-R spell?
***At this point, any rat or RINO who wants to carry the Kenyan’s water on this one will drown in it come November.**
Sleeping with dogs - wake up with fleas.
They will all be FLEA BAGGERS!!!!!!
He just wants to spin it, make it sound good. Then pray to Allah it passes.
He will push this week for a vote as soon as he talks about the better parts of it, hiding the dirt deep.
It will be “urgent and necessary”
Then before there is time to read it and understand the implications he will push for his vote.
We have to rally hard, this is waterloo.
Not going to change the current trending in polling as to how the MAJORITY of AMERICAN’s are against OBAMACARE. But yeah, you keep working on it while claiming you solely concentrating on JOBS....Jack Squat idiot.
OBAMA FORCING AMERICA TO SWALLOW HEALTH CARE POWER PILL....AMERICA HAS DICTATOR IN WHITE HOUSE....TYRANNY PREVAILS OVER A ONCE FREE NATION!!!
Can he be OR will he be stopped????????????????
ARGGGGGGGGGGhhhhhhhhh
This ass won’t figure out who runs things until late Nov at the earliest.
“AMERICA HAS DICTATOR IN WHITE HOUSE....”
According to the article in the Opening Post, Obama is even writing the bill. That should be the Legislative Branch of the govt..
I write the same old song with a few new lines
Everybody wants to cheer it
I write the same old song you heard a good few times
Admit you really want to hear it
We hum the same old lines to a different crowd
Everybody's wanting to hear it
We run on endless time to reach a higher cloud
But we never ever seem to get near it
Sorry, but the letters F, A, I, and L only make up so many English words.
“I am now totally convinced this is a purposeful destruction of America.”
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Now you’re catching on. My attitude is that nobody could really be stupid enough to think that a health bill with 2700 pages that threatens to fine and or jail people for NOT buying health insurance makes any sense. If Obama were really that stupid he would be blowing spit bubbles and making babbling noises and swinging his head back and forth. Oh, wait, other than the spit bubbles that is a description of most of his public appearances.
I thought that he said during the SOTU address, that he was going to focus on 3 things: jobs, jobs, and jobs? Yet another head-fake
it’s all over, obamanation, we are on to your LIES.
Nice! It’s about all the respect he deserves!
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