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Article: Reform bill doesn't cut it
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- October 14, 2009
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As with virtually any senator, Utah's Orrin Hatch can at times be
given to hyperbole. But when he said, in prepared remarks given on
the Senate floor Tuesday, "Only Washington could try to sell a
promise like this with a straight face," we doubt too many astute
observers would disagree.
The subject was health-care reform. The Senate Finance Committee
had just voted 14-9, with only one Republican (Maine's Olympia
Snowe) joining the majority, to approve a major bill. But then this
version, one of many in both the House and Senate, will be, as Hatch
said, rewritten "behind closed doors in the dark corners of the
Capitol and the White House" before a final version is brought to
both houses for ...