tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13953343.post1031296758619017402..comments2023-05-04T08:41:32.771-05:00Comments on Touched With Fire: Labwriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08401801164965036471noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13953343.post-65752496443775134832009-08-13T14:45:54.791-05:002009-08-13T14:45:54.791-05:00And what about the Senate bill that was put on the...And what about the Senate bill that was put on the HELP Committee website in PDF format? According to my 8th-grade civics class, as a bill becomes law it is assigned a number and labeled with the sponsor's name. The House bill, for example, is HB3200, sponsored by Representative Henry Trollface Waxman. Claire's bill, the one she made such a fuss about ("Here it is, right here on my electronic reader, it's 600 pages long") leaves the place for filling in the number and the sponsor BLANK. So what's the deal? Is this "Senate bill" just sleight of hand, or what? <br /><br />Whatever the state of the HELP Committee version of the health care bill, the important Senate version is going to come from the Finance Committee, chaired by Sen. Max Baucus (D, Montana). This is the committee charged with figuring out how to pay for the bill. Baucus is on record as saying he will not be bound by an artificial deadline.Labwriterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08401801164965036471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13953343.post-82339507125410387352009-08-13T14:33:39.783-05:002009-08-13T14:33:39.783-05:00The more I look at her remarks to the crowd on Tue...The more I look at her remarks to the crowd on Tuesday, the more I think that Hennessey was right and I was wrong: Claire McCaskill is a weasel.<br /><br />She fooled me with her plaintive question to the crowd, "Don't you trust me?" She looked honestly hurt when people yelled back, "No!"<br /><br />During her answers, she proudly stated that there were "160 Republican amendments" adopted to this bill, as if this was a positive, bipartisan move. I later read a statement from Senator Michael B. Enzi (R., Wyoming), who said that Republicans had been forced to offer more than 100 amendments to the bill because Democrats had largely shut them out of the drafting process. So much for Claire's fantasy of bipartisanship.Labwriterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08401801164965036471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13953343.post-4255523620036686292009-08-13T14:26:17.849-05:002009-08-13T14:26:17.849-05:00I think Hennessey is confused when he says there a...I think Hennessey is confused when he says there are four drafts in the Senate of the health care bill and one in the House. But then, who isn't confused, since that's part of their Saul Alinsky tactics.<br /><br />As best as I can tell, there are three drafts coming from three different committees in the House; there are two drafts from two committees in the Senate. One committee has evidently voted its draft out of committee in the Senate: the HELP Committee (the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions). This is the Senate version that Claire was rererring to in her remarks, the one that can be found on committee website in PDF format.Labwriterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08401801164965036471noreply@blogger.com