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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn chaotic scene, Rand Paul demands to see the House GOP's Obamacare repeal bill
Aides in the room told the senator -- before dozens of reporters in a crowded hallway -- that there was no bill to see. In fact, it wasn't the room where GOP members of the Energy and Commerce Committee were told to meet with staff to review the current draft of their bill at all. But that did little to dissuade Paul, openly critical to the House Republican leadership's preferred path on the process, from making his underlying point.
"This should be an open and transparent process," Paul said. "This is being presented as if it were a national secret, as if this was a plot to invade another country, as if this were national security. That's wrong."
Paul ventured to the House Thursday afternoon after reports surfaced that House Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee were being granted an opportunity to review the current draft of the Obamacare repeal legislation and ask questions behind closed doors.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/02/politics/rand-paul-obamacare-repeal-bill/index.html
bravenak
(34,648 posts)spanone
(136,006 posts)the dog that caught the wheel....
six years to come up with the 'replace'
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Midterms are going to be brutal. For them.
spanone
(136,006 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)This might end that whole thing.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)marybourg
(12,656 posts)how unusual it is for a Senator to venture into the House side (or vice versa) without invitation. I was under the impression that their relations are generally kept on a fairly formal level. I seem to remember that they were even careful about how they referred to each other; something like "the other body".
Probably some politics buffs here on DU can comment on this.
In the era of tRump the bizarre has become the everyday.
Yavin4
(35,459 posts)If you just think positive thoughts, you will never get sick and need healthcare.
miyazaki
(2,266 posts)You know the one with the table and stacks of blank pages.
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