Waxman Threatens to Bypass Committee on Healthcare and Bring Bill to Floor for Vote

Fox News is reporting the following:

A key House committee chairman on Friday threatened to roll over moderate Democrats who are holding up the health care reform bill and bring the package straight to the floor.

The statement underscored the deep divisions the health care reform debate is causing in the ranks of the Democratic Party.

Fiscally conservative Blue Dogs are holding up the bill in the House Energy and Commerce Committee over cost concerns and other issues. But Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., on Friday accused those Democrats of empowering Republicans.

“I won’t allow them to turn over control of the committee to the Republicans,” Waxman said, threatening to bypass the committee process.

“I don’t see what alternative we have,” Waxman said of talks that have raged for days with the Blue Dogs. “This can’t be an interminable discussion.”

The radical move would mean Waxman would finish writing the bill in private and merge it with the two bills that have already passed out of the committee in the chamber before bringing it to the floor.

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Key Chairman Threatens to Bypass Committee on Health Care Bill

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