Thursday, June 22, 2017

The thinker: Chuck Grassley goes to bat for Mitch McConnell, secrecy, closed doors, no transparency



Quoted in Grassley says secrecy concerns are 'overblown' GOP's Obamacare reform bill.  (Des Moines Register, 6/21/2017)
But he said the general direction of the proposal has been repeatedly discussed at lunch meetings of Republican senators, many of whom have told the press about what they’ve heard.

Related reading:
20 GOP criticisms of Obamacare’s secrecy that now look eerily hypocritical.  (Washington Post, 6/20/2017)

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