Yesterday The Hill (Blog Briefing Room) reported that Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) stated that the healthcare bill that came out of the Finance Committee was not bi-partisan. He stated that early negotiations excluded key committee members for the sake of a proposal that ultimately "wasn't bipartisan,"
The article quotes Senator Rockefeller:
"That's what happened on the
stimulus bill ... we got one vote on the stimulus bill and it was always referred to as [the] bipartisan stimulus bill," Rockefeller added. "It wasn't, it wasn't -- it was us plus Olympia ... it's game-playing."
I appreciate his honesty--one Republican vote does not make a bill bi-partisan!
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