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Conrad: Democrats Alone Can't Pass Health Care
July 26, 2009 10:17 AM
Despite their 60-vote majority in the Senate, a top Democrat argued
today that Democrats alone can't pull health care reform through
Congress.
"There are not the votes for Democrats to do this just on our side
of the aisle," Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., chairman of the Senate Budget
Committee and a key player in the health care reform effort on Capitol
Hill said during an exclusive health care debate this morning with Sen.
Jim DeMint, R-S.C., on "This Week."
"It's just not possible to have a Democrat-only bill?" I asked Sen. Conrad.
"No, it is not possible," he told me, "and perhaps not desirable
either. We're probably going to get a better product if we go through
the tough business of debate, consideration, and analysis of what we're
proposing."
http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2009/07/conrad-democrats-alone-cant-pass-health-care--1.html