Pelosi: Congress Should Work Through Recess

[babsbunny]

http://www.truthout.org/072209M

Wednesday 22 July 2009

by: Mike Soraghan | Visit article original @ The Hill

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) on Wednesday said she's open to keeping the House in session through the August recess to pass its health care overhaul.

"I think 70 percent of the American people would want that," Pelosi said. "I want a bill."

That stance contradicts House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), who said Tuesday that he didn't see any point in staying into August if Democrats haven't reached consensus on a bill by then.

But Pelosi also said she believes she has the votes to pass the bill on the floor of the House. Still, she indicated it will be important for members to look at the Senate Finance Committee's version, which is not yet finished. That suggests she may change the House version to more closely resemble the Senate bill.

[virgogal]

1. Never happen.

[elehhhhna]

2. Send them home in August. Let the constituents make their wishes known.

[SharonAnn]

3. No. THe Blud dogs will just get encouragement from their constituents to oppose it.

[Engineer4Obama]

4. Dragging the fight out

will just mean that however can spend hardest longest will win. And the bad guys have more money than us. You have to strike while the iron is hot.

[customerserviceguy]

5. You're assuming that most Congresscritters

are going to hear voices of support for what will still be a fairly vague health plan.

Nope, they're going to hear criticism from every group and individual not getting their exact 'way' on how healthcare reform should be.

Pelosi knows that the recess will kill the legislation, that's why she's taken this tack.

[orleans]

6. nancy and steny play popular game: good cop bad cop n/t