A constituent says he never got his one on one with his congressman on health care reform:
Mr. Cooper said he would not have town-hall meetings this past summer because he did not support this legislation.
He preferred one-on-one meetings with voters. Well, I applied and three weeks later, after two [...]
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Senate Democrats’ Health Care Reform Bill
Sen. Mitch McConnell’s statement:
“While Americans have been clear about their opposition to thousand-page bills for new government programs, it’s now abundantly clear that Democrats' [...]
From Fox News:
But while the task force has no direct authorization over dictating coverage, critics say findings from the group delivered as Congress is considering a massive health care reform bill that may include a government-run health insurance option surely will influence policy.
“This is the way rationing, which my [...]
Rep. Steve Cohen has a relatively tame townhall meeting after voting for health care reform:
The quiet and orderly meeting was in stark contrast to the raucous town-hall event Downtown in August, when Cohen was booed and shouted down for a House bill on health care reform that was still [...]
From Roll Call:
Asked whether she would pledge to no longer endorse the language of protesters who accuse President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats of being “socialist” and “evil” because of their health care reform plan, Blackburn paused before saying, “I’m happy to tell you the American people are very [...]
Via The Jackson Sun:
U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Brentwood, will hold a town hall meeting Saturday morning in Lexington, according to a news release.
The meeting follows last week’s House vote on health care reform.
It will begin at 11 a.m. at Sparky’s Restaurant, at 496 W. Church St.
[...] From Hank Hayes:
“If Republicans crafted a (health care reform) bill exactly like the bill that is coming before us, word for word … there wouldn’t be a single Democratic vote for that bill…” the Tennessee Republican told about 100 people inside the Coffee Company. “Many of the people in [...]
Lamar Alexander reports that Republicans are going to take the health care reform bill to the streets:
Republicans are looking to resurrect the angry town halls of August in the last few weeks of November.
Senate Republican Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander said Republicans are “quietly” planning some 50 in-person and [...]
Andy Sher reports:
“Look, if you’re going to pass health care reform, OK, that’s your business,” Gov. Bredesen said. “But don’t just pass it onto the states. If you don’t have enough money to do this with states, the states certainly don’t have the money.”
The easiest way to understand the health reform debate is to compare it to a track meet, particularly a relay race. Speed is not the goal, however. Victory is getting across the finish line without dropping the baton.
[...]The senior senator is wondering that same thing:
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), the third-ranking Republican in the body, said abortion is an important issue but “the issues that are going to dominate the health care debate are whether we’re reducing costs or whether we’re increasing the costs for most [...]
Ilissa Gold on Rep. Jim Cooper’s support for the Stupak amendment to the health care reform bill which ban abortions from being covered in anyway under the new system:
Congressman, I know you’re very smart and have an excellent command of legislative history. I know that you know about the [...]
220-215. A lone Republican, Rep. Joe Cao of Louisiana voted with the Democrats for the bill. Cohen and Cooper were ayes. The Republicans and Tanner, Gordon and Lincoln Davis were nays.
“This process of drafting health care proposals has been both lengthy and healthy. I’ve received valuable [...]
Matt Yglesias with the wisdom:
It’s worth taking a moment to appreciate the fact that in a unicameral United States of America, we would now have passed both a comprehensive health care reform bill and also the most important piece of environmental legislation in the history of the world.
The lefties have threatened a primary challenge and now the right-wing is upset that Rep. Jim Cooper will be voting for health care reform:
For years you paraded around the Congressional Budget. Waving it in everyone’s face when Republicans held the majorities while touting your own fiscal responsibility yet here [...]
Bredesen was asked if he ever considered how he might have impacted the health care reform debate if he would have been named U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary.
Former Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius got the HHS job over Bredesen.
“I feel like I have dodged a bullet,” [...]
Ilissa Gold notes that a significant number of both legislative and Metro Council leaders signed a letter asking Rep. Cooper to vote yes on health care reform, a vote he indicated this morning he would, in fact be making:
All of the Democrats from Nashville in the House [...]
From the office of Nashville’s congressman:
“I am grateful to the thousands of Nashville-area residents who have shared their opinion on health care reform with me. Everyone feels strongly because health care is so important to our lives. Having read the pending bills and having taught health policy at Vanderbilt [...]
