Please let's continue to watch this bill -- very carefully. Personally, I would prefer no change in this atmosphere of hype and scare tactics by the left. As a fiscal and small government conservative, I am not in favor of a compromise with this travesty of health care takeover by Obama and his Congressional liberal cohorts. This may be a repeat for those of you who also read my Independent View-Oregon blog. ~~~ S. Lane
CNSNews.com - Republicans Formally State Their Objections to Senate Finance Committee’s Health Care Legislation
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Republicans Formally State Their Objections to Senate Finance Committee’s Health Care Legislation
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
By Susan Jones, Senior Editor
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
By Susan Jones, Senior Editor
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., left, and the committee's ranking Republican Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, center, and Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, during the committee's hearing on health care reform on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
(CNSNews.com) – “Pretty much everything’s been said, and now it’s time to get the job done,” Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said Tuesday as the Senate Finance Committee prepared to vote on the fifth and final Democratic health care bill to emerge on Capitol Hill.
The “Baucus bill” is expected to easily pass the committee, given the Democrats’ 13-10 advantage. With the possible exception of Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), all committee Republicans will vote against the bill.
Before the vote – expected later Tuesday -- each committee member is having his or her say.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking Republican on the Finance Committee, outlined his objections after Sen. Baucus declared his health care bill to be “balanced,” timely and necessary.
“I wish I felt better about the substance of the bill,” Grassley said, noting that some provisions “raise a lot of questions.”
Grassley enumerated some of those concerns, including the “possibility of further leftward movement” when the Finance Committee bill is merged with the bill coming out of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee.
First and foremost, Grassley said the Finance Committee bill moves the nation to “more and more government control of health care.”
The “Baucus bill” is expected to easily pass the committee, given the Democrats’ 13-10 advantage. With the possible exception of Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), all committee Republicans will vote against the bill.
Before the vote – expected later Tuesday -- each committee member is having his or her say.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking Republican on the Finance Committee, outlined his objections after Sen. Baucus declared his health care bill to be “balanced,” timely and necessary.
“I wish I felt better about the substance of the bill,” Grassley said, noting that some provisions “raise a lot of questions.”
Grassley enumerated some of those concerns, including the “possibility of further leftward movement” when the Finance Committee bill is merged with the bill coming out of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee.
First and foremost, Grassley said the Finance Committee bill moves the nation to “more and more government control of health care.”
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