Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) today took a shot at the president for pushing a deadline for passing health care reform legislation, saying a deadline is “counterproductive.”
“The president’s job is to push … if he doesn’t push it tends to drift,” Conrad told reporters this morning. “But this idea that there is a drop-dead day or hour is absolutely counterproductive to doing something that is critical.”
Conrad, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, has expressed dismay with the idea of a deadline before.
But yesterday it was committee chairman Max Baucus (D-MT), not the president, who was pushing deadlines. Baucus said yesterday that bipartisan negotiators on the committee had better speak up by 10 a.m. today if they had changes to his proposal.
