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AFL-CIO: No To Stand Alone Senate Bill

By Big Tent Democrat

Maybe the Village Dems can pick up the slack for the November elections if the unions sit them out, but the AFL-CIO made their views plain regarding the possible passage of a Stand Alone Senate health bill:

AFL-CIO legislative director Bill Samuel tells me in an interview that labor won’t support any efforts by the House to pass the Senate health bill in its current form [. . .] “We don’t want the House to pass the Senate bill,” Samuel said a few moments ago by phone. “We would not be in favor of passing the Senate bill without fixing the problems that we’ve identified.”

(Emphasis supplied.) How are the Village Dems at GOTV and such?

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on January 20, 2010 (boomark / email).