Word: emanuele
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...address to a joint session of Congress (as Clinton tried), will not be enough to get over the finish line. Health-care reform is so politically fraught that it needs a strong White House presence in the room, something that happened only late last week in the House (when Emanuel became personally involved in the talks with the Blue Dogs) but has yet to start with the Senate...
...health-care plan was written in secret, without input from Congress, before the Administration tried to ram it down the throat of the legislative branch. The catastrophic failure of that strategy is still burned into the minds of many former Clinton staffers, including Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel...
Miller, Zell • suggestion by that, in order to stop "our globe-trotting president" from "gallivanting all around" so damn much, "Rahm Emanuel ought to get some Gorilla Glue and put it in that chair in the Oval Office...
...were clearer about where his red lines are for health-care reform. While the President insists, for instance, that he wants to see a public plan in the legislation, he has refused to spell out in detail what it should look like. Meanwhile, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has been talking up the possibility of setting up a public plan only as a fallback if the private-insurance industry fails to create a robust and competitive market for health coverage. "The goal is to have a means and a mechanism to keep the private insurers honest," Emanuel told...
...strong public plan, the Finance Committee is looking at a number of weaker versions, including one that would operate as a cooperative. But over in the House - where three key committee chairmen unveiled a health measure that has a public plan and puts new taxes on the wealthy - Emanuel's words stirred up painful memories from the early Clinton years. In 1993, House Democrats backed the President on an unpopular energy tax - based on the heat content of fuels, measured in British thermal units (BTUs) - then watched in shock as Clinton retreated from them when the Senate balked. That vote...