Senator Bachus News Today

For re-election and as you know this re-election headquarters will be based in chicago not washington. >> its being led by is it jim mecina. he used to work for rahm emanuel. what does he bring to that role? >> reporter: he was deputy chief of staff the first couple of years and entrenched for years and years and worked for senator bachus and key at the time of the health care debate and left the white house late last year and early this year and been working on the campaign. his big issue is ta...

U.s. health care reform resulting in affordable health care for all. the health of my family and the small business of my farm depends on it. sincerely, raymond, from iowa. i hear that we have to start all over, and you know, mr. president, we spent one year considering a range of ideas from experts from all over the political spectrum. two committees, the health committees under the ableleadership of senator dodd, and the other committee chaired by senator bachus held 100 bipartisan meetings an...

You were talking, you were on the air last night, you were on "hardball" i saw you on "morning joe" talking about the possibilities of being bipartisan. how does this work when harry reid, hears tom harkin and other liberals claiming the proposal was skewed too far to the business interests and what they considered special interests, and all of the sudden scraps it? >> well i really dont know what happened, to tell you the truth. i wasnt there in the room when harry made that decision. i had con...