{"id":455101,"date":"2010-03-21T16:26:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T20:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=74372"},"modified":"2010-03-21T16:26:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T20:26:02","slug":"liveblog-house-floor-debate-on-health-care-bill-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/455101","title":{"rendered":"Liveblog: House Floor Debate on Health Care Bill (Two)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Jesse Jackson Jr bringing the gavel today.<\/p>\n

Demanding the YEAs and NAYs on 15-minute vote on point of order.<\/p>\n

CSPAN has now cut away to the kill-the-bill demonstrations on the Capitol grounds today.<\/p>\n

We’ve now come back from the “fifteen-minute” vote.<\/p>\n

Based on the earlier schedule, the House appears to be taking two hours for every hour allotted to debate. We are at 4pm eastern, when they scheduled this to be completed at 3pm eastern.<\/p>\n

On MSNBC, awaiting the arrival of the Forced-Birth King, Bart Stupak, who will tell us what deal he’s agreed to for his vote for this bill. Unless he’s going to vote against it!<\/p>\n

Lawrence O’Donnell now lauding his MSNBC colleague Chris Matthews for understanding ten months ago that health care reform would all come down to abortion. No mention of Matthews berating Alan Grayson for saying earlier this year that reconciliation would be the parliamentary method used to pass health care reform.<\/p>\n

The House is not waiting for the conclusion of Bart Stupak’s press conference. JJJ at the gavel again.<\/p>\n

Louise Slaughter relating yesterday’s events: spitting, racist comments, homophobic comments. “Anger is not just contained to the Capitol Grounds — last week someone threw a brick through my office window in my district!”<\/p>\n

Slaughter recalling FDR’s language on good health being essential to the safety and security in our nation. Inequality of health care by region, economic status. “to prevent and care for sickness and disability, loss of ability to work among workers, care for children and mothers” — this is a reminder that the eyes of history are watching us. This should be our guidepost.<\/p>\n

Truman, Clinton invoked now, along with Richard Nixon’s efforts. “Our final bill may end up being less progressive than the one Nixon proposed many decades ago” — sing it, Louise!<\/p>\n

Slaughter giving the broad strokes of the majority’s views of the bill, CBO score, coverage expanded. That 1.3 trillion in the second decade is a talking point they absolutely love.<\/p>\n

“We are here today to do our job — I consider the Rules Committee to be the kitchen of the House of Representatives, and I am proud to be the cook.”<\/p>\n

Dreier up now: “what happened yesterday on the grounds of the Capitol was totally unacceptable.” Is this the first GOP denouncement of actions of the teapartiers against Cleaver, Lewis, Carson, and Frank?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dreier: “We will hear story after story that is a tragedy — this ill-conceived bill is such a lost opportunity for a bipartisan solution. Speaker Pelosi argues that the American people care more about the product than the process. And she is right! The public was outraged by tactics to avoid an actual bill, but people are really outraged by its effects!” [we won the battle on deem-and-pass, so we’re back to hating on the bill itself]<\/p>\n

Dreier says this will gut Medicare and Medicare Advantage, cut HSAs until they are worthless. Do the GOPs understand that, you know, the Louisiana Purchase is already actually a, um, thing?<\/p>\n

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Tags: Health care<\/a>, House of Representatives<\/a>, liveblog<\/a><\/p>\n

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