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Orrin Hatch: Dems May Celebrate Health Bill Now, But Won’t After it ‘Bankrupts the Country’ Later
By PoliJAM | December 23, 2009
As Democrats were celebrating on the eve of the Senate’s passage of the Democratic health care reform legislation, Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) warned that “the bill basically is going to bankrupt the country.”
Speaking on CNN’s Situation Room, Hatch went on to blast the Democrats for their “arrogance of power” in ramming through the bill without giving a serious effort to reach across the aisle for a Republican vote.
Share This“If it’s just a straight partisan bill that’s this important, then you know it’s a lousy bill. And I can tell you, this is one lousy bill. They can be very proud of what they’ve done, except that what they’ve done could wreck our country. And I think we’ve got to all stand up and start letting them hear from us…
“I think that’s what’s wrong with Washington. This is what people complain about – Washington doing things that just get them reelected rather than doing things that, over the long run, are right.”
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