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July 8, 2008
their effort to avert payment cuts to doctors who treat Medicare patients was blocked by Senate Democrats During debate this evening Sen Cochran asked for an immediate vote on S 3118 legislation authored...Sen Wicker added I support taking immediate action to stop these cuts but the false choice Senate Democrats have provided us is unnecessary Instead of working for a bipartisan solution the only option we...find bipartisan consensus on a long term fix and this situation shouldn t be any different I urge Democratic leaders to rethink this decision and pass an extension that will allow us to put politics aside...
November 15, 2010
any repeal measure A veto override requires 67 votes in the Senate a difficult goal to reach with Democrats controlling the Senate In the meantime my colleagues and I are looking at ways to stop the worst...mandate in the health care law is a good example of a provision we can overturn immediately Senate Democrats have blocked previous efforts to repeal this measure which forces businesses to submit an IRS 1099...
February 24, 2010
anything because two days before the summit the President came out combining the House Democrat bill with the Senate Democrat bill and actually came up with a plan if you can believe it that has even more federal...not a good beginning for what is supposed to be a bipartisan exchange of ideas On reports that Democrats may use an expedited legislative process known as reconciliation to pass the President s proposal...and defied public opinion On the fundamental difference in views between the Republicans and the Democrats There s a reason for the partisanship We are fighting about something that is very fundamentally...
August 10, 2009
and said If I get cancer I am going to the United States BAIT AND SWITCH Leading congressional Democrats those pushing the so called public plan realize the American public does not want a single payer...moments that a single payer government takeover of health care is their ultimate goal One leading Democrat advocate of the public option recently said that this is a fight about strategy about ultimately...wants to go There is a better way forward It is not too late for the president and congressional Democrats to go back to the drawing board and devise a truly bipartisan measure that would offer positive...
November 4, 2019
Productive Health Care Reforms Medicare for All or Medicare for None November 4 2019 The latest Democratic proposal for a government takeover of health care just got more expensive Previous estimates had...of our country like the Mississippi Delta Republicans on Capitol Hill are ready to work with our Democratic colleagues on health care But Medicare for All is a dangerous distraction It would prevent positive...
November 13, 2009
104 9 FM Below are some of the key excerpts from the interview Health Care On Democrats health care spending The Democrats do some accounting tricks the first ten years you have a decade worth of taxes...trillion program and say it s going to save money a new entitlement program has never done that On Democrats proposed Medicare cuts We really ought to be shoring up Medicare This is a program that is going...
January 5, 2015
the Senate to regular order Dysfunction has dominated the chamber over the past eight years of Democratic control Rather than protecting the Senate as a unique legislative institution Majority Leader Harry...controlled House of Representatives during the 113th Congress Instead of being stifled by Senate Democrats they now have an opportunity to go to the President s desk to become law The Republican majority...
July 9, 2009
Senate floor regarding the need to reform health care without the staggering costs associated with Democrats proposals Mr President we need serious substantive health care reform The reasons for reform are...problem in a way that doesn t incur such prohibitive costs for taxpayers Unfortunately however our Democratic colleagues have plans accompanied by astronomical costs to taxpayers The Finance Committee is struggling...tactics these are Congressional Budget Office estimates On the other side of the Capitol the House Democrats bill is expected to cost closer to 2 trillion and over and above these federal costs there are frightening...
February 25, 2020
are born Wicker said These should not be controversial concepts It is disappointing that Senate Democrats blocked two bills that reflect these widely shared values which are backed by scientific evidence...
August 27, 2018
legal opinions there is no shortage of information on Judge Kavanaugh s legal philosophy However Democrats continue to make extraordinarily excessive demands in an effort to slow down the confirmation process...debate on Judge Kavanaugh which are expected in the Senate in the coming weeks I am also hopeful my Democratic colleagues will extend the same bipartisan spirit of cooperation to Judge Kavanaugh s confirmation...
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