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Van Hollen: Senate may need to 'pull the plug' on talks
thehill.com - 7/27/2009
Van Hollen: Senate may need to 'pull the plug' on talks
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Senate leaders may need to "pull the plug" on bipartisan negotiations on healthcare reform legislation, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said Monday. Van Hollen, the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and assistant to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), indicated that ...
briefingroom.thehill.com - 7/27/2009
Van Hollen: Senate may need to 'pull the plug' on bipartisan health talks
— briefingroom.thehill.com — Senate leaders may need to "pull the plug" on bipartisan negotiations on healthcare reform legislation, Rep. Chris... Van Hollen (D-Md.) said Monday. Van Hollen, the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and assistant to House ... (more) Van Hollen: Senate may need to 'pull the plug' on ...

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Health Care Updates
mahablog.com - 7/27/2009
Health Care Updates
— mahablog.com — Today Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.; head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) said that Senate leaders... may need to “pull the plug” on bipartisan negotiations and get the bleeping health care reform package out of committee. In particular, Van Hollen was critical of ... (more) Health Care Updates

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The Mahablog — ... Today Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.; head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) said that Senate leaders may need to “pull the plug” on bipartisan negotiations and get the bleeping health care reform package out of committee. In particular, Van Hollen was critical of Max Baucus’s Finance Committee (no surprise). ...

Van Hollen: Senate Finance May Have To Pull The Plug On Negotiations
TPM Election Central — ... whether this should count as a data point vis-a-vis news this news out of the Senate Finance Committee, but Rep. Chris van Hollen (D-MD), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, took the rare step today of weighing into the upper chamber's internal negotiations. "What concerns me about what's happened in the Senate Finance Committee is that they've had a whole lot of time to work these things out, and just don't seem to be able to break the impasse," Van Hollen told Bill Press. "At some point they're going to have to pull the plug on that process, and when ...

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