Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) today urged her fellow senators to listen to Massachusetts voters, who she said “believe that we are going too far, too fast.”
“Everybody needs to get the Washington wax out of their ears and listen and pay attention that people out there believe that we are going too far, too fast,” McCaskill said.
In an interview with Politico, she warned against trying to pass a merged health care bill through the Senate before Sen.-elect Scott Brown is sworn in.
“I think it would be a huge mistake to try to ignore what they expressed yesterday to try to put something through the Senate before Sen. Brown gets here,” she said, adding that “one alternative” would be to pass the Senate bill word-for-word in the House, an option Senate leadership and the White House is pushing for.
She also echoed the words of Rep. Bill Delahunt (D-MA), who said this morning that the bill should be broken up into pieces and passed in a series of votes, partly because such a big piece of legislation is more susceptible to misinformation.
“You take the big things we had to do, as related to the economy, and you combine that with the frustration of the American people and a big health care bill that frankly, because it was big and complicated, it lent itself to this almost virulent misinformation that got out there,” McCaskill said.
