A few days ago, I mentioned that Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown was rumored to be assembling a coalition to demand that Majority Leader Harry Reid include a “robust, Medicare-like public option” in the bill he ultimately brings to the floor of the Senate. Well, Brown’s letter to Reid has been delivered, and, incredibly, 30 Senators […]
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30 Democratic Senators demand a public option
Posted in Health, Politics | Also tagged Al Franken (D-Minn.), Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii), Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), Harry Reid, healthcare, Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), John Kerry (D-Mass.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), lobbyists, Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Paul Kirk (D-Mass.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Sherrod Brown, Ted Kaufman (D-Del.), the public option, Tom Udall (D-N.M.), when Democracy works | 5 Comments