Rand Paul blasts House GOP for keeping ObamaCare bill in 'secure location'

[Origanalist]

BY PAULINA FIROZI - 03/02/17



Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) blasted House Republicans for keeping their ObamaCare plan under wraps in a series of tweets on Thursday.

“I have been told that the House Obamacare bill is under lock & key, in a secure location, & not available for me or the public to view,” Paul tweeted.

“This is unacceptable. This is the biggest issue before Congress and the American people right now.”

In several tweets, Paul accused House leadership of not wanting to admit to a watered down version of Obamacare, and demanded that they release text of the bill.

House Republicans’ new version of the replacement bill is being kept in a “dedicated reading room,” Bloomberg reported, where it will be available to members of the House Energy and Commerce committee. The move is an effort to prevent leaks of the draft.

Paul’s series of tweets follows a closed-door meeting of Senate Republicans Wednesday to discuss a strategy for repealing the healthcare law.

Paul urged House lawmakers to release text of the ObamaCare draft "today."

More at..

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare...ecure-location

[PatriotOne]

Get em Rand!

[CPUd]

I guess they're going to try and whip it out at 3AM for a quick vote.

[CPUd]

https://twitter.com/eyokley/status/837347822349463552

[specsaregood]

[CPUd]

https://twitter.com/pdmcleod/status/837347111792439297

[bunklocoempire]

Ain't no sunshine when truth and lady liberty is gone... Hide in the dark, you cockroaches.

[William Tell]

#NotHisDad

[EBounding]

[Jan2017]

New Obamacare replacement bill is being hidden in a basement, out of view of public, and even this GOP senator can't see it

Paul and other members of Congress then went on a hunt to try, unsuccessfully, to actually look at the bill.

The bizarre security measures for the bill, which came to light Wednesday night, underscore how politically risky repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act has come to be seen in the past month by GOP leaders.

Another member of Congress, House minority whip Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., Facebook live-streamed himself walking around the halls of the Capitol trying to locate the bill.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/02/gop-o...-basement.html

[CPUd]

Rand Paul accuses Republicans of sneaking around to push “Obamacare-lite” in secret

After clashing with GOP leadership last week, accusing them of trying to push legislation that did not fully repeal Obamacare, Sen. Rand Paul now says the same Republicans are trying to double down on their efforts in secret.

“I have been told that the House Obamacare bill is under lock & key, in a secure location, & not available for me or the public to view,” Paul tweeted on Thursday.

“This is unacceptable. This is the biggest issue before Congress and the American people right now.”

The Hill reported: “Paul later said he’s been told the House Republicans’ draft of the repeal bill is ‘take it or leave it.’ ‘I think that’s why it’s top secret,’ he said. ‘Why don’t they want us to see it? The only copy we’ve seen is from the media — does that sound to you backwards?'”

“We saw a leaked copy that the media was given that we weren’t given,” Paul said on Thursday according to The Hill. “Now we’re told that it’s being classified, that the hearing is like a security clearance hearing, you have to have a clearance and permission.”

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http://rare.us/rare-politics/issues/...ite-in-secret/

[devil21]

Probably has language unrelated to healthcare that they don't want getting out but is going to have a big impact once passed.

[afwjam]

Go rand!

[XNavyNuke]

#NotHisDad

Exactly. Proper protocol is to bring this up on the floor. This posturing for the MSM is unstatesman-like. We need an investigation to see if this was initiated by his new found Trump buddy.

XNN

[phill4paul]

https://twitter.com/pdmcleod/status/837347111792439297

Rand should have went with a few hundred armed constituents.

[eleganz]

#NotHisDad

Don't forget, obvious Trump stooge is obvious

[phill4paul]

Well, if Rand and Trumps are such buds now then Trump will at least tweet about it too.

"A Senator cannot even show his constituents what is in the plan. Disgraceful."

[Superfluous Man]

Where are all the Trump trannies complaining about Rand being so liberal?

[milgram]

[seapilot]

It must be such a great bill they want to keep people from seeing it in order to surprise everybody! Go get em Rand end this crap legislation being crafted behind locked doors.

[The Northbreather]

Dirty $#@!ers!!

[milgram]

[NewRightLibertarian]

Great move and a huge PR victory for Rand. Seems like he's getting his groove back.

[CPUd]

https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/837694764694798339

https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/837688390506119168

[William Tell]

Its ok, we can learn what's in it once it passes as the Speaker will tell us....

again

dejavu

[EBounding]

I'm curious--who exactly is guarding the door? Who is holding the gun?

[Superfluous Man]

I'm curious--who exactly is guarding the door? Who is holding the gun?

It would be interesting to see some civil disobedience here. Pictures of Rand getting cuffs put on him for trying to read the bill would get some attention.

[radiofriendly]

[Carlybee]

I guess they're going to try and whip it out at 3AM for a quick vote.

Attached to some big omnibus bill. Dang, feels the Bushco all over again.

[Carlybee]

He is arguing with people who think Ed Snowden is a traitor and Julian Assange is public enemy #1. These people are no fans of transparency.