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Boehner: White House Plan is Too Short

February 23, 2010 - by Donny Shaw

What's really ridiculous here is that the White House plan that was released yesterday is not a bill, and it only deals with a small portion of the health care bills in Congress. If it was written as a bill instead of the more friendly, plain English outline it is, it would probably be somewhere between the lengths of the Senate and House health care bills. And those, of course, are "too long."

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Bill Length Hypocrisy

February 10, 2010 - by Donny Shaw

In a conversation yesterday with Ezra Klein, Sen. Lamar Alexander [R, TN] kept calling out the health care bill based on its length. But on other long bills that have been voted on recently in Congress, Sen. Alexander voted "yea."

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