Hoyer: I’m Not Worried About Re-Voting On Reconciliation

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD)
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Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said on CBS this morning that he’s not worried about the House having to re-vote on the health care reconciliation bill after some minor changes.

“These are very technical rulings of the parliamentarian,” Hoyer said.

I expect to get this bill back from the Senate sometime later this afternoon, and I would expect a couple of hours thereafter we will have the bill on the floor for final passage, and it will pass the House and be sent to the president.

Hoyer also addressed the recent outbreak of threats and violence targeting Democrats across the country after the health care vote.

He said the threats are “very, very serious” and that it’s not merely “par for the course.”

“The rhetoric that has been utilized with respect to this bill is far beyond, I think, legitimate debate. And as a result, people who are less constrained, less aware of the fact that debate can get hot but it shouldn’t get violent, they lead to a conclusion perhaps beyond what the speaker meant to imply.”

Later on CNN, Hoyer hit many of these same points — on both reconciliation and threats of violence.

“There’s reason for concern,” Hoyer said of the threats. “There’s reason for care.”

And it’s the responsibility of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, Hoyer said, to “tell Americans, ‘that’s not the way we conduct our democracy.'”

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