Community | August 26, 2009 | 3 comments

Byrd: Rename health care bill in Kennedy's honor

source: http://www.examiner.com/x-4383-Portland-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m8d26-Byrd-Rename-health-c...

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Senator Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) wants the health care bill to be renamed in honor of the late Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.). In an emotional statement Byrd, the only senator to have served longer than Kennedy, claimed the bill should bear Kennedy's name "for his commitment to insuring the health of every American".
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Will renaming the health care bill after Kennedy help the bill become law?
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    Community,   US Politics,   Progressive America
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    Health Care Reform,  Ted Kennedy,  Robert Byrd
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3 comments // Byrd: Rename health care bill in Kennedy's honor

  • samthesixth
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      samthesixth  

    • Mr. Byrd,

      After your years of service, it is time for you to resign. As you are currently unable to fulfill your constitutional duties due to your medical condition, you deprive West Virginians of their representation.

    • 2 years ago
  • hcice
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      hcice  

    • If a bill isn't going to pass on its own merits, don't go and rename it to something like the "Ted Kennedy Memorial Healthcare Bill" just so that some senators and congressman will vote for it so they don't look "uncompassionate towards Kennedy's memory."

      This maneuver is just as much B.S. as the naming of the "Patriot Act" after 9/11. A lot of votes went towards that because legislators didn't want to be labeled "unpatriotic."

    • 2 years ago
  • wintermadness90
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