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Because they cannot get enough attention, let’s have a thread all about Republicans Democrats Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.
I’ll start the thread with Sinema, since it’s been all Manchin lately.
Sinema campaigned on lowering drug prices in America. Hahaha thanks for the votes, suckers!
She’s not alone. There are other Democrats who care more about their pharmaceutical company donors than about their constituents.
Wait, you support the idea but you are voting against it because it’s not in its own standalone bill? WTF? Next time just use the old “dog ate my homework” excuse. It’s more believable.
I’ll start the thread with Sinema, since it’s been all Manchin lately.
Sinema campaigned on lowering drug prices in America. Hahaha thanks for the votes, suckers!
Sinema ranks as one of Congress’ leading recipients of pharmaceutical industry donations, according to an analysis by Kaiser Health News. The Arizona Senator is not the only Democrat expressing concerns with the party’s approach to drug negotiation. A trio of centrist House lawmakers voted against the measure in the Energy and Commerce Committee this week and a fourth voted against it in the Ways and Means Committee.
Sinema tells White House she’s opposed to current prescription drug plan
The Arizona Democrat joined Joe Manchin in giving the president a wake-up call on the reconciliation bill.
news.yahoo.com
She’s not alone. There are other Democrats who care more about their pharmaceutical company donors than about their constituents.
Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-N.Y.) was one of those centrists. In a letter sent to the Alliance for Retired Americans advocacy group two days after the vote, the congresswoman said she supported “the goals” of the Democratic bill to allow Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices. Unlike her past votes in favor of it, however, Rice wrote, her committee vote was not on a “clean, stand-alone bill.”
“Instead, the H.R. 3 drug pricing language was being used as a tool to offset the cost of a $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill,” Rice wrote in the letter, obtained by POLITICO. “That bill has no chance to become a law, as Democrats in the Senate have stated that a bill with such a price tag will not have the votes to pass in their chamber.”
Wait, you support the idea but you are voting against it because it’s not in its own standalone bill? WTF? Next time just use the old “dog ate my homework” excuse. It’s more believable.