Senate Democrats: Majority Leader Harry Reid To Republicans: ‘It’s Not Too Late To Do The Right Thing’

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Erik Schneider

Senate Democrats_ Majority Leader Harry Reid To Republicans_ ‘It’s Not Too Late To Do The Right Thing’ _ FRS FreeStateSource:Senate Democrats– Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Democrat, Nevada)

“Reid to Republicans: It’s Not Too Late To Do The Right Thing. Senate floor speech, October 12, 2013”

From Senate Democrats

Looks like Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have a compromise in the Senate that would not only reopen the government and extend the debt ceiling without having ObamaCare language in it, (no defunding or no repeal, no delay) but the compromise is that the medical device tax will be repealed. Which is a small price to pay for Democrats since both Democrats and Republicans are against the MDT and it doesn’t really have anything to do with the Affordable Care Act as far as enforcing it or funding it.

So the ACA is still intact even without he MDT and the country is saved from a tax increase. Senate Democrats should take this deal and pass it overwhelmingly and send it to the House with a bipartisan vote. And put more pressure on the House Republican Leadership and moderate House Republicans to vote on this agreement and end the shutdown and avoid a default.

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I use the American Liberal photo as the cover photo for this blog, because that’s exactly what I am. And no, not in the stereotypical, sort of pop culture sense of what an American Liberal is supposed to be. But someone who represents what American liberalism, as well as European liberalism, and perhaps the liberalism of the rest of the world outside of the United States. Liberals are people who believe in defense of liberal democracy, as well as the preservation of liberal democracy. And of course we also believe in liberal democracy with all the individual rights, and other liberal values that come from liberal democracy, the liberal democratic form of government, like equal opportunity, equal rights, equal justice, property rights, individual freedom and freedom of choice for everybody, as well as limited but responsible government, and fiscal responsibility
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