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Bill USA

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Thu Oct 31, 2013, 06:22 PM Oct 2013

House Republicans Skip Obamacare Briefing They Furiously Demanded

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/30/house-republicans-obamacare-briefing_n_4178762.html?view=print

For all their fury, most of the House Republicans who had demanded their own closed-door briefing from the administration on President Barack Obama's struggling health care rollout were no-shows on Wednesday.

Rep. John Fleming (R-La.) told reporters that "about 20 members" attended the House GOP briefing, at which senior Health and Human Services Department official Mike Hash laid out some of the issues facing the Healthcare.gov website.

The meeting was scheduled after House Republicans cried foul when they weren't included in last week's closed-door session with Democrats. The White House said Democrats had requested the briefing, but Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), deemed the snub "all the more offensive after [HHS] Secretary Sebelius declined to testify" at a House committee hearing last Thursday on Obamacare.
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House Republicans Skip Obamacare Briefing They Furiously Demanded (Original Post) Bill USA Oct 2013 OP
The GOP wants to RULE, not GOVERN. JoePhilly Oct 2013 #1
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