Schumer: McConnell Committing ‘Outrageous’ ‘Legislative Malpractice’ on Health Care

Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said the way his colleague Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R.-KY) was handling the Republican health care bill is “one of the most outrageous examples of legislative malpractice in decades.”

Schumer said, “Mitch McConnell is the leader of the Senate, and to have this issue, which affects a sixth of our economy, tens of millions of people coverage, millions would lose coverage, lose preexisting conditions, hurting the elderly, hurting women, to do this in private without hearings, without amendments, it would be one of the most outrageous examples of legislative malpractice in decades. I am appealing to Leader McConnell, once you have your bill, once you have your bill, put it forward in public like we Democrats did.”

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