MinnPost: Democrats aim to “pledge and pass” health care reform bill

[babsbunny]

http://www.alfranken.com/

Posted in News Clips on March 3rd, 2010

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Obama today delivered what may be his final plea for Congress to pass health care reform, imploring lawmakers to hold an “up-or-down vote” on legislation “in the next few weeks” — using a strategy outlined last month by Sen. Al Franken.

“I believe the United States Congress owes the American people a final vote on health care reform,” Obama said today. His speech acted as a closing argument, summing up both his reasons for wanting to pass a health care bill and his desire for a “final vote”, rather than additional discussion.

Franken called the strategy “pledge and pass” — have the Senate show it has the votes to pass a “fix” through reconciliation (requiring only 51 votes), get the House to pass the Senate’s bill, then pass the fix. According to multiple reports, the goal is to have it all done by Easter.

[Yuugal]

1. pledge and puke

No PO? Then I pledge to vote against any dem on my ballot who votes for mandated bullshit care.

[Renew Deal]

2. Are you going to ask Skinner to "Ban you right f*cking now?"

Bye :hi:

[customerserviceguy]

4. Because we can't possibly tolerate

any diversity of opinion on what HCR has morphed into? Right now, the plan is to pass the Senate bill as it stands, with a vague hope that a reconciliated "fix" will make it more like the House bill in yet-undetermined ways.

With that as the scenario, it is perfectly rational to be against this concept based on what is in the Senate bill, that may or may NOT go away with a reconciliation bill.

[SlingBlade]

3. Pass and Fix Huh. We did that already, It was called Election Day

Single Payer of shit can this crap. Period !