Manchin: I'd Support Delaying Obamacare To Avoid Govt Shutdown [View all]

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

DYLAN SCOTT – SEPTEMBER 26, 2013, 11:47 AM EDT

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said Thursday that he would support a one-year delay of Obamacare's individual mandate as part of a short-term government spending bill.

Delaying implementation of one of the key pieces of Obamacare is one of the provisions that congressional Republicans are reportedly considering including in the temporary government spending bill when it comes back from the Senate.

Manchin's comments, made at a Bloomberg Government breakfast in Washington, D.C., were reported by Bloomberg News.

“There’s no way I could not vote for it. It’s very reasonable and sensible,” Manchin said. “Don’t put the mandate on the American public right now. Give them at least a year. If you know you couldn’t bring the corporate sector, you gave them a year, don’t you think it’d be fair?”

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/manchin-says-he-d-support-delay-of-individual-mandate

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Link to Bloomberg article:

Democrat Manchin Breaks Ranks to Back Mandate Delay

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-26/democrat-manchin-breaks-ranks-to-back-mandate-delay.html

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