Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said moments after the Senate Finance Committee passed a health care reform bill by a 14-9 vote that “a vote against the bill is not a vote for status quo.”
I’m not going to stand still and let people say that a vote against this bill is a vote for the status quo. There’s so many things we can do and we’re going to do. And when we go to the floor, we’ll be there telling people how we can change the status quo.
Next up was Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT). He declared that the costs of the Baucus bill “are astronomical.”
It’s not moderate. It’s very costly. It’s gonna cost us an arm and a leg. It’s gonna disrupt the practice of medicine.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said the Baucus bill continues “reckless spending” and that the run-up to today’s vote represents “a hyper-partisan process” and a “my way or the highway approach.”
Editor’s Note: This post has been added to since it was first published.
