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.

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

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