The Hill: Chamber of Commerce Praises Baucus, Jabs at House Health Bill

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Chamber praises Baucus, jabs at House health bill

By Jeffrey Young
Posted: 07/27/09

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce praised Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and his band of bipartisan negotiators for their efforts to craft a deal on healthcare reform, doing so in a letter Monday that is sharply critical of his House counterparts.

The big-business group, which has been highly critical of a number of the key components of the healthcare reform platform espoused by President Obama and most congressional Democrats, penned the letter to Baucus, Finance Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and the other members of the committee to urge them to keep working for a deal.

The letter, however, is as much a swipe at House Democrats as it is an offer of support for Baucus and Grassley's months-long effort to hammer out an agreement on legislation that can attract more than 60 votes in the Senate.

The absence of a bipartisan package from the Finance Committee will trigger intense anti-healthcare-reform jockeying during the upcoming recess, the letter strongly hints.

"The Chamber also believes that it is important for the Finance Committee to act promptly, preferably before the August recess, to approve a bipartisan bill consistent with these principles, as it is now apparent that we will be forced to oppose the legislation being considered by the House. The business community vitally needs better policy alternatives to be proposed by Congress," the letter says.

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[Thrill]

1. What a surprise. That Prick is bought and paid for.

[brentspeak]

2. There should be a Working Person's Chamber of Commerce

Fight against the B.S. propagated by the U.S. Corporate Masters Chamber of Commerce

[wtbymark]

3. Chamber of assfaces is pro-corperate/ anti-labor..

anti-American in my view

and come 2010 there needs to be a multi-million dollar effort to kick Baucus's ass out of public service all together.

[flpoljunkie]

4. Why the 'Unrecommend?'

Is that you Baucus?