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GOP Senate Leader Acknowledges He Hasn’t Read Full Health Care Bill
Dems are getting ready to jump on GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell over a local TV report in Kentucky saying that McConnell has acknowledged not reading the whole health care bill — even though GOPers challenged Dems to read the bill earlier this summer.
WYMT-TV in Hazard, Kentucky, aired a report on McConnell and health care, showing McConnell telling constituents that he opposes the health care proposal. The reporter then says…
“The Republican leader says he has not read all 1000 pages of the proposal, but says he knows enough about it, saying it will put health care in the government’s hands, and create significant cuts to Medicare to pay the trillion dollar bill over ten years.”
Video here. It’s not quite clear which bill the reporter was referring to, but she was pretty specific in saying that McConnell had acknowledged not reading the thousand page proposal.
What makes Republicans vulnerable on this one is that they explicitly attacked Dems for rushing health care by saying they should at least read the bill before voting on it. In June John Boehner’s office blasted House Dems for not fully reading the bill. And at the time, GOP Senator Jim DeMint said: “Americans are outraged when they find out members vote on bills they’ve never read.”I’ve reached out to McConnell’s office for clarification….
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