In the wake of the GOP’s Massachusetts special election upset last night, Democrats have been downright fatalistic about their chances of passing health care reform. But one House Democrat, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), promised this afternoon that a bill will get passed — but not the Senate version.
The Maryland Democrat explained on Fox News that negotiations between the House and Senate were going “pretty well.” The bill that would have come from this merger, Cummings said, would have been an improvement on the Senate version. House opposition, he concluded, now makes its “very difficult to get the Senate bill through.”
But the Democrat was confident a deal would be struck — even though the Democratic caucus in the Senate now has just 59 members.
“I still have a belief that it will get done,” Cummings told the Fox host. “I believe it with all my heart.”
