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- * On health care, he said he and the president plan “feel confident’’ that both chambers of Congress will have passed a health care bill by the August recess. He said he and Mr. Obama would become more deeply engaged in the legislative process once the bill reaches conference, and vowed to ‘’fight very hard’’ for their priorities, including ‘’a public plan to cover the vast majority of the American people.’’ He predicted a bill would pass but would not say how many Republican votes it might get.
- Then it goes to conference and some of all of the elements of what we are proposing are in each of the bills, and that’s when we will fight very hard to try to produce a bill out of that conference that is consistent with what we believe is the way to fund it, the way to make sure there’s competition with the insurance industry through a public plan to cover the vast majority of the American people.’’
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