Page 10 - Put Aside News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Some of the crossing state lines and letting people buy insurance without those kinds of barriers, some of the other reform measures that are smaller issues. >> first of all, the bill they are going to put up is a total democrat bill that literally brings everything to washington, gets washington the power over health care. and of course, won't work. so we really do -- we could start over. i think with a group of us, we could have a bill within a month that would be a great bill that would bring american people together, would save money over the long run. i'm worried sick that we're going to ...

Wrangling behind closed doors. this is what we know for sure, for us to solve this extraordinary problem that is so many years in the making, it's going to take the cooperation of both parties. it's not going to happen in any other way. i'm pleased that congress supported my request to restore the pay as you go rule which was instrumental in turning deficits into surpluses during the 1990s. i've also called for a bipartisan fiscal commission. unfortunately, this measure which originally had received the support of a bipartisan majority in the senate and was co-sponsored by senators conrad and ...

Democrats and republicans, was blocked there. i'll be creating this commission by executive order. during our meeting i asked the leadership of both parties to join in this serious effort to address our long-term deficits. when politics is put aside, the reality of our fiscal challenge is not subject to interpretation. math is not partisan. there ought to be a debate about how to close our deficits. what we can't accept is business as usual. and we can't afford grandstanding at the expense of actually getting something done. during our meeting, we also touched briefly on how we can move forwar...

Latest updates on this topic from reliable sources.