GOP leaders expect cap-and-trade 8 to shun health bill

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GOP leaders expect cap-and-trade 8 to shun health bill
By Molly K. Hooper
Posted: 07/27/09 06:01 PM


House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) seemed confident Monday that very few, if any, Republicans would cross the aisle to vote for a Democratic healthcare reform bill.

Sources with GOP Whip Eric Cantor’s office noted that a number of “the eight,” as GOP leaders privately refer to rank-and-file members who voted for Speaker Pelosi's cap-and-trade bill last month, have indicated that they are eager to vote against the healthcare measure.

Republican Reps. Mary Bono-Mack (Calif.), Chris Smith (N.J.), Frank Lobiondo (N.J.), Leonard Lance (N.J.), John McHugh (N.Y.), Mike Castle (Del.), Mark Kirk (Ill.) and Dave Reichert (Wash.) supported the Democrat’s landmark energy reform bill.

Boehner said that “enough” of the eight that he’s talked to tell him that they “are adamantly opposed to the Democrat proposal on the grounds of the cost, this giant bureaucracy and the government getting in the way of the relationship between the doctor and the patient.”

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