Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said on the Senate floor a few minutes ago that the CBO analysis showing that the Senate Finance Committee health reform bill would actually reduce the federal deficit by $81 billion over 10 years is “irrelevant.”
“The bill it’s referring to will never see the light of day and we all know that,” McConnell said. “That’s because the real bill will soon be cobbled together in a secret conference room somewhere here in the capitol by a handful of Democratic senators and White House officials.”
Um, okay…
We’ll have video for you shortly.
Late Update: McConnell’s assertion that the Baucus bill won’t seen the light of day seems particularly strange since we’ve confirmed that the Senate Finance Committee will vote on the bill on Tuesday.
Late Late Update: Here’s the video.
