Reid Announces Senate Dem Attendees For White House Health Care Summit

[ProSense]

Reid Announces Senate Dem Attendees For White House Health Care Summit

Rachel Slajda

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this afternoon announced which Senate Democrats will attend the bipartisan health care summit at the White House this Thursday.

Reid will attend, joined by Sens. Dick Durbin, Chuck Schumer, Patty Murray, Max Baucus, Chris Dodd, Tom Harkin, Jay Rockefeller and Kent Conrad.

The White House invited Democratic and Republican leadership in both houses, and allowed the leaders to invite a handful of colleagues.

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"The President's health reform proposal brings together the best of the Senate bill and the best of the House bill in a fiscally responsible way," he said in a statement.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Wish Sen. Franken was on the list.

[BlueIdaho]

2. Me Too!

[DebbieCDC]

3. Throw out Baucus and put in Franken

[freddie mertz]

4. Dump Baucus and Conrad. Add Ron Wyden and Sherrod Brown.

Baucus and Conrad are among the worst of the appeasers who put us in this mess in the first place.

[ProSense]

5. Does everyone realize that this isn't a

suggestion box?

Conrad supports reconciliation and is chairman of the Budget Committee. Durbin, Schumer, Murray, Dodd, Harkin and Rockefeller all support a strong public option.

[freddie mertz]

8. It's a website, it can be anything we want it to be.

That must drive some people crazy.

:eyes: :argh: :nopity:

[ProSense]

9. Not really,

snark that the first comments were suggested changes.

:rofl:

[freddie mertz]

10. Very silly. nt.

[ProSense]

11. Sorry, let me try yours

[freddie mertz]

12. Very silly....

[saracat]

15. Yeah that sorta the way Rahm feels about any suggestions from those

"f****** Ret****"" we call liberals. Bacchus and Corad have botched everything so far. That is the equivelent of two more GOP voices.

[freddie mertz]

23. Baucus and Conrad got us into this mess.

They should be excluded for that reason.

But the Senate/WH "leadership" seems to have no shame.

They also hope we will forget.

But we won't.

[karynnj]

27. Not to mention, Durbin and Schumer are in the party leadership,

Harkin and Dodd, are the two top Democrats on HELP. Baucus is the chair of Finance. Rockefeller, the second ranking member of the Finance committee and the chair of the Finance sub-committee on heath. Conrad is also the third ranking member of the Finance committee. (I can't as easily explain Murray, who is on the HELP committee and chairs Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety. (Following the pattern, Mikulski, the third ranking HELP Senator would have been more predictable.)

[PVnRT]

28. Yeah, people shouldn't DISCUSS things like that on a DISCUSSION board

We must all accept the decisions of Democrats without question, all of the time!

[jefferson_dem]

6. I could go with that.

Wyden and Brown are real public servants, with integrity.

Still...Reid couldn't really exclude the Chairs of the budget and finance committee no matter how much we would want him to.

[AlinPA]

20. Yes. Brown is the one we need in there. nt

[Phx_Dem]

7. That's a good group.

Baucus and Conrad aren't my favs, but they're as entitled to be there as anyone else.

Bring it on!

[saracat]

13. Actually I don't think they are "entitled"to anything, except maybe

the payoffs from their corporate masters.

[Phx_Dem]

18. That's cute. They're Senators should they have as much right to

be on the panel as anyone else, and they're on the Finance committee.

[saracat]

22. there are 100 Senators and none of them are "entitled" to be appointed to anything

And these "appointees" do not have to be from the Finance Commitee.

[Phx_Dem]

26. Sure they are. They've been working on HRC for a year now.

They ones who've been on the front lines for a year trying to get something passed --whether you agree with their plan or not -- are deserve to be part of the discussion, whether you like it or not.

[freddie mertz]

24. Or maybe jail, for acting as bought and paid for hit-men..

Rather than public servants.

[Thrill]

14. Why isn't Bernie in there?

[Uzybone]

16. apart from Baucus its a good group...

I know Baucus has to be there by virtue of his chair position.

[freddie mertz]

25. Conrad is just as bad.

[Jennicut]

17. This is a list of everyone coming:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/12/health-care-summit-see-th_n_460801.html:


* Senator Harry Reid, D-NV, Majority Leader
* Senator Mitch McConnell, R-KY, Republican Leader
* Senator Richard Durbin, D-IL, Majority Whip
* Senator Jon Kyl, R-AZ, Republican Whip
* Senator Max Baucus, D-MT, Chairman of the Finance Committee
* Senator Chuck Grassley, R-IA, Ranking Member of the Finance Committee
* Senator Tom Harkin, D-IA, Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
* Committee
* Senator Mike Enzi, R-WY, Ranking Member of the Health, Education, Labor and
* Pensions Committee
* Senator Christopher Dodd, D-CT, Member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
* Committee
* Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA
* Representative Steny Hoyer, D-MD, Majority Leader
* Representative John Boehner, R-OH, Republican Leader
* Representative James Clyburn, D-SC, Majority Whip
* Representative Eric Cantor, R-VA, Republican Whip
* Representative Charles Rangel, D-NY, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee
* Representative Dave Camp, R-MI, Ranking Member of the Ways and Means Committee
* Representative Henry Waxman, D-CA, Chairman of the Energy and Commerce
* Committee
* Representative Joe Barton, R-TX, Ranking Member of the Energy and Commerce
* Committee
* Representative George Miller, D-CA, Chairman of the Education and Labor Committee
* Representative John Kline, R-MN, Ranking Member of the Education and Labor
* Committee
* Representative John Dingell, D-MI, Chair Emeritus of the Energy and Commerce

[AlinPA]

19. I assume Lieberman will be sitting with the republicans. nt

[frazzled]

21. It's the leadership, plus the chairs of the relevant committees, plus 4 others

Reid and Durbin are the Majority Leader and Democratic Whip (their Republican counterparts will also be there). Baucus, Dodd, and Harkin all chaired or currently chaired the relevant committees that created the bill. (Their Republican counterparts will also be there).

Schumer, Murray, Rockefeller, and Conrad are the add-ons.