{"id":43007,"date":"2009-11-16T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"e4670227-e3f0-488d-a6f0-e84fa227d862"},"modified":"2009-11-16T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T19:18:00","slug":"help-committee-chairman-senate-will-work-weekends-on-health-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/43007","title":{"rendered":"HELP Committee Chairman: Senate Will Work Weekends On Health Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, chairman of the\u00a0Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said Monday that the Senate will work weekends in December to try to pass a health care reform bill, The Hill<\/a> reports.\u00a0During an interview on the\u00a0Bill Press Radio Show, he also\u00a0predicted\u00a0“that the Senate will have the 60 votes needed to call up the healthcare bill this week.” Harkin added that Senate Democrats are expecting Republicans to try to read the whole bill on the floor and that Democratic leadership will likely keep the Senate in session this weekend to let them read through the bill 24 hours a day (O’Brien, 11\/16).<\/p>\n

\n USA Today<\/a> On Politics blog:\u00a0Also\u00a0during the radio program, Harkin said\u00a0the Senate’s vote “to allow the debate to start likely will take place this Friday, but it won’t be until after Thanksgiving that the Senate will entertain amendments. … ‘That’s when it will all begin,’ he said of Nov. 30.”\u00a0\u00a0Harkin said he expects\u00a0a vote on the bill “shortly before Christmas.”\u00a0A\u00a0House-Senate conference committee would then begin their work\u00a0on crafting a\u00a0final bill in early January “with the goal of getting it to the president by mid-January.” Harkin also reiterated that Senate Democrats are awaiting a revised cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office that\u00a0combines elements from both the Senate Finance and Senate HELP bills\u00a0(Kiely, 11\/16).<\/p>\n

\n Bloomberg<\/a>: But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s Spokesman Jim Manley said Monday that there will be no Congressional Budget Office score of a Senate health care reform bill today, “although it may come tomorrow or Wednesday, Manley said.” He also said Reid hopes to bring the legislation to the floor “as soon as possible” after receiving the score (Jensen and Litvan, 11\/16). <\/p>\n

In the meantime, Senate Democratic press secretaries are circulating talking points on health care reform labeling Republicans as “defenders of the status quo,” Hotline On Call<\/a> reports. The talking points say “GOPers and opponents of the bill are showing ‘panic and desperation’ as momentum for the measure builds, and Dems will say their foes are siding with an insurance industry that is actively mobilizing to defeat the measure” (Wilson, 11\/16).<\/p>\n

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Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, chairman of the\u00a0Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said Monday that the Senate will work weekends in December to try to pass a health care reform bill, The Hill reports.\u00a0During an interview on the\u00a0Bill Press Radio Show, he also\u00a0predicted\u00a0“that the Senate will have the 60 votes needed to call up the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}