Reply #60: I agree that it is bullshit ! While Conyers has disappointed me

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on more than one occassion, on this issue he is at least continuing to advocate for SP.

http://www.singlepayeraction.org/blog/?p=919

"John Conyers (D-Michigan) was not happy last night with his colleagues Charles Rangel (D-New York) and Henry Waxman (D-California). Conyers is sponsor of the single payer bill (HR 676) in the House.

The bill has 79 co-sponsors.

Rangel and Waxman were co-sponsors last year. But they are not co-sponsors this year. Rangel, Waxman and George Miller (D-California) each chair committees that will be hearing health care reform proposals.

Only Miller is cooperating with Conyers – remaining a co-sponsor of HR 676 and holding hearings.

...“And here I am in the most Democratically controlled legislature in my life. And they are saying – it’s kind of too late because we have to get this thing through by the end of July. And we don’t have time.”