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SNOPES debunks the "Obamacare was done in secret just like the AHCA" bullshit (Original Post) CousinIT Jun 2017 OP
Thanks. Really pissed when I see that bullshit. elleng Jun 2017 #1
kick kentuck Jun 2017 #2
Great Meme Gothmog Jun 2017 #3
It was almost an entire year of the "sausage-making" BumRushDaShow Jun 2017 #4

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4. It was almost an entire year of the "sausage-making"
Thu Jun 22, 2017, 05:47 PM
Jun 2017

for how a bill becomes a law. Multiple hearings in multiple committees in both chambers of Congress. Hearings for testimony from the public, from the insurance cos, from the medical industry, plus all the hearings to do the mark-ups, and the budget and the appropriations (although almost all of it was paid for without need for budget authority funding) and the rules. And it frustrated the hell out of me about how stupid "the media" was declaring each draft version as "THE bill", as if that was it and it would be the law.

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