Sources: White House considers drafting health care bill

[babsbunny]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/09/04/cnn-national-political-correspondent-jessica-yellin-and-cnn-senior-political-analyst-gloria-borger/

Posted: September 4th, 2009 05:54 PM ET


WASHINGTON (CNN) – CNN has learned that the White House is quietly talking about drafting formal health care legislation after allowing Congress to work on its own for months.

Multiple sources close to the process told CNN Friday that while the plan is uncertain, they are preparing for the possibility they could deliver their own legislation to Capitol Hill sometime after the President Barack Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress Wednesday, with one source calling the possibility of new legislation a "contingency" approach if efforts by Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus to craft a deal fall through. The sources spoke to CNN shortly before Baucus said that he may lay out a health care plan as soon as Saturday.

[The Magistrate]

1. Hopefully This Is True, Ma'am, And If It Is, It Is About Damned Time They Did This

"Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons."

[Jennicut]

2. CNN and MSNBC are having conflicting reports over this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8628190&mesg_id=8628190