Hypocrisy Watch: Health Care Reform
Great information piece done here by Think Progress, deflating Senator Lamar Alexander’s argument against the reconciliation process. Now while the senator from Tennessee claims that the “senate will come to an end” if the process is used, it did not stop him from using reconciliation on several occasions. Those included:
– 2003 Bush Tax Cuts: The Congressional Budget office, Bush’s tax cuts for the rich increased budget deficits by $60 billion in 2003 and by $340 billion by 2008. The bill had a cost of about a trillion dollars. [Alexander voted yes.]
– 2005 Deficit Reduction Act of 2005: The bill cut approximately $4.8 billion over five years and $26.1 billion over the next ten years from Medicaid spending. [Alexander voted yes.]
– 2005 Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005: The bill extended tax cuts on capital gains and dividends and the alternative minimum tax. [Alexander voted yes.]
– 2007 College Cost Reduction and Access Act: The bill forgave all remaining student loan debt after 10 years of public service. [Alexander voted yes]
I don’t believe the senate came to an end on those occasions. As pointed out here by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, reconciliation has been used 19 times. It’s even been used for other forms of health care reform legislation. This is not uncharted territory despite what some would have you believe.
Based upon Senator Alexander’s previous history using this “senate ending procedure,” his rhetoric falls inaccurately, inconsistently flat. This is what we call a clear case of hypocrisy. Hypocrisy on steroids.
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