Senate Support Growing for Public Option Via Reconciliation « The Washington Independent
Jul 31, 202010.3K Shares371K Views
It began two days ago as a four-senator campaignurging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to tap the budget reconciliation process to create a public health insurance plan that would compete against private companies. Now 16 upper-chamber Democrats have signed their names in support of that strategy, according to the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a liberal group that launched the campaign. Names follow after the jump:
Democratic Sens. Michael Bennet (Colo.), Barbara Boxer (Calif.), Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), Sherrod Brown (Ohio), Roland Burris (Ill.), Al Franken (Minn.), Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.), John Kerry (Mass.), Frank Lautenberg (N.J.), Jack Reed (R.I.), Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.), Pat Leahy (Vt.), Bernie Sanders (Vt.), Jeff Merkley (Ore.), Barbara Mikulski (Md.) and Tom Udall (N.M).
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