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Dems tell Emanuel they don't want his deadlines
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03/09/10 09:14 PM ET
Congressional Democrats directly told White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel they don't appreciate being told when to finish their work on healthcare reform, according to a powerful committee chairman.
"He
was certainly informed that we don't feel we want any deadlines
assigned to us," House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry
Waxman (D-Calif.) said after a healthcare strategy meeting between
House and Senate Democratic leaders and Emanuel.
During the Tuesday afternoon
meeting in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) office, lawmakers
made sure to raise their concerns with the president's top aide. "He
said he'd pass it on," Waxman said.
Earlier Tuesday House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) pushed back on the proposed deadline, telling reporters, “None of us has mentioned the 18th other than Mr. Gibbs.” Gibbs lated acknowledged there is a "disconnect" between the White House and Capitol Hill about the deadline.
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