Earlier this month, we heard a lot of talk about how the
Democrats were bypassing a formal conference committee to merge
the two bills and simply doing closed door talks and "ping
ponging" the bills betwen the two chambers.
But now, in the wake of Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts,
the Democrats are engaging in a bit of rhetorical "ping pong,"
with members in each chamber saying the ball was in the other
chamber's court.
After an early morning meeting today, members of the Senate
Democratic leadership said outright what many suspected after
last night's election: The fate of health care rests with the
House.
And then this afternoon, the Greg Sargent reported this:
In a private meeting in the Capitol just now, a dozen or more
House liberals bluntly told Nancy Pelosi that there was no
chance that they would vote to pass the Senate bill in its
current form - making it all but certain that House Dems won't
opt for this approach, a top House liberal tells me.
"We cannot support the Senate bill - period," is the message
that liberals delivered to the Speaker, Dem Rep Raul Grijalva
told me in an interview just now.
He also picked up on a growing resentment among House members for
the deference shown to the Senate:
For instance, Grijalva said, why not send the Senate individual
bills that would, among other things, nix the "Cadillac" tax or
close the donut hole, pressuring the Senate to deal with each
provision separately?
"If the Senate chooses not to close the donut hole, that's
their damn problem," Grijalva said. "They've had it too easy.
One vote controls everything. Collectively, we're tired of
that."
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Warrior| 1.20.10 @ 5:51PM
On a separate issue, Mr. Grijalva is also calling for new episodes of Sponge Bob Square Pants to be produced.
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That's funny, Warrior.